Many electronic musicians have difficulty programming desired timbres on FM synthesizers. Programming intuition can be enhanced by a computer program arising as an intermediate step in a more comprehensive ongoing project. In our preprint, we provide a public-domain program for use with a popular personal computer. The program inputs include FM synthesis parameters such as carrier and modulator frequencies and index of modulation or related modulator level parameter used in a popular family of FM synthesizers. The program displays the resulting waveforms and their spectra.

Authors: Gibian, Gary L.; Clements, Dennis R.; Harnden, Eric N.; Bort, David L.
Affiliations: American University Physics Department, Washington, DC ; Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 81 (November 1986) Paper Number: 2380
Publication Date: November 1, 1986 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Audio Recording and Signal Processing
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