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Subject: RE: [motm] VCO FM question

From: Neil Bradley <nb@...>
Date: 2005-12-07

> You can make FM sounds with MOTM modules, you
> just can't get the precision that you get with a
> digital synth (like DX7) in terms of keeping the
> modulator to carrier ratios precise all the time.

Not to mention that FM synthesis in the Yamaha line of synthesizers is
really not FM synthesis - it's phase modulation synthesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_modulation_synthesis

-->Neil

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