[sdiy] For you FM synthesis fans

[Ben Lincoln]

On Mon, November 17, 2014 10:44 am, gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:15:49AM -0800, Ben Lincoln wrote:
>> There was a Sound Diver module for the K5000 (produced by Kawaii, IIRC)
>> that would allow for most of that sort of thing. It would also do a
>> Fourier transform on a WAV file and attempt to recreate it using the
>> K5000's synthesis model.
>
> Oh, that sounds fun.  Have you got any examples of this?

I have the software and data files and I even still have my K5000W, but
it's all packed away until I have enough space to set up my home studio
again :\.

I've found a number of references to that feature, but no one seems to
have example audio online anymore.

IIRC (it was over 14 years ago that I last used that feature), the results
sounded as though the software had done the FFT, performed a logical OR on
the frequencies from each point in time across the entire WAV file (so
basically turning it into a single-cycle approximation of the overall
sound), and then applied a simplified version of the amplitude envelope
from the WAV file.