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Subject: re: [motm] FM Synthesis w/ MOTM

From: elhardt@...
Date: 2002-12-04

JDM writes:
>>While you don't need a VCA to do FM on a modular, you would want several
to do an FM patch with any complexity. Remember, with FM, as you increase
the modulator's levels, you increase the carrier's frequency content.
It's a different effect than varying the modulator's frequency or harmonic
content, which is pretty much all you could do without a VCA.<<

Good point. I took the original post about VCA's meaning he wanted to modulate
the levels of modulator with something like an EG or LFO. If all that is needed
is attenuation then the motm mixer can give him a couple of channels of that.

-Elhardt