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FM Synths Explained with Memes

Hey everybody, in this video we are going to tackle the final boss of sound synthesis - Frequency Modulation AKA FM. There is plenty of great content on that topic out there but chances are it will cure your insomnia instead of teaching you the ins and outs of this timelessly dated sound generation technique so I’ll try to explain it with MEMES.

00:00 Introduction
00:23 History of FM Synthesis
02:45 Which Synth you should use
03:13 FM Synth Basics
06:08 More Complex FM Synthesizers , Algorithms, Feedback
08:27 Why FM was/is used
08:47 Refine FM Patches (Keyscaling, LFO, FX,...)
09:24 How FM has evolved since 1983
09:45 Analyse the most Meme-worthy FM Patches
11:26 Outro

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