[sdiy] FM

[jhaible]

> I haven't actually heard anything musical done with a frequency shifter. I
> have serviced the Bode units and had a chance to play with them, but they
> essentially render any sound "clangorous" by changing the harmonic ratios.
> (IMHO) If there is some great musical quality about frequency shifters, I
> fail to understand it.
>
> It was probably once useful for "robotic" voices in the same way as
vocoders
> were once popular for radio station IDs.
>
> Can anyone point out a recorded example of a frequency shifter used
> musically?

I have a track on my 2nd CD that is CS-50 thru frequency shifter:
http://home.debitel.net/user/jhaible/dark_nov_web.html

You can download two mp3 samples from this track here:
http://www.oldcrows.net/~jhaible/mp3/jh_ber_1.mp3
and
http://www.oldcrows.net/~jhaible/mp3/jh_ber_2.mp3

JH.