FM Synthesis - Practical Tutorial 4 - Rate & Level Scaling, Velocity Expression, Reface DX, FB01

FM Synthesis - A Practical Guide Tutorial - Part 4
Level: Intermediate
Rate and Level Scaling
Velocity Sensitivity and Expression
Reface DX Tutorial
Yamaha FB-01 Tutorial

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*Here's the playlist for the rest of the videos in this series:*
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZtzlNHvZRO3hlX8x7RkhmaWv8yczmoLW&si=QNlMI0oTwoLNLU5x
Here's something I've been meaning to get round to starting for ages, a practical guide to FM synthesis. In my experience FM tutorials usually over explain all the wrong things and rarely get as far as the important things like which setting will make usable sounds.

This episode covers how rate and level scaling work as well as velocity sensitivity to volume and tone. It also shows the oddness that is the Yamaha FB-01

The funky clavinet sound Funky Keys for the Reface DX can be found here on Soundmondo:
https://soundmondo.yamahasynth.com/voices/132726

Here is the link to the Edisyn synth editor, useful for single voice editing:
https://github.com/eclab/edisyn

Here's the link to 'FB01 Sound Editor' which can edit all 8 channels if needed but it a bit buggy:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fb01editor/

Once again, just for those who read all this stuff, this tutorial series hasn't exactly been a runaway success so far 😅 Each episode seems to get less views than the last, but I feel I must get through everything I have to talk about. We're about to get into more advanced techniques so hopefully things will perk up after this one! At least it's been an excuse to buy stuff 😁 The FB-01 is cool if a little quirky, I did have DX21 turn up I was planning to demo but that one was faulty, so something else is on it's way but I don't want to jinx it, so fingers crossed that's working 🤞
0:00 Coming Up
0:15 Intro
1:14 Aliasing noise
2:36 Level Scaling
4:32 Rate Scaling
5:40 Velocity Sensitivity
7:02 Funky Clavinet Example
10:36 Editing the Yamaha FB-01
11:28 Yamaha FB-01 weirdness
14:40 FB-01 Clav examined
It's work checking out the whole of the Synth Secrets series, there is a couple specifically about FM:
(ADVANCED)
https://www.soundonsound.com/series/synth-secrets-sound-sound
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/introduction-frequency-modulation
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/more-frequency-modulation

For another excellent resource about creating synthesized versions of real instruments, try this:
(ADVANCED)
http://www.javelinart.com/FM_Synthesis_of_Real_Instruments.pdf

For some more FM tutorial info on the Reface DX, check out Manny Fernandez's series about it below. He made presets for it so he knows what he's doing :)
The links between articles are a bit messed up so I've added them all here
(BASIC to ADVANCED)
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/basics-of-fm-synthesis/
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/basics-of-fm-synthesis-lesson-2/
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/basics-of-fm-synthesis-lesson-3/
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/basics-of-fm-synthesis-lesson-4-new/
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/basics-of-fm-synthesis-lesson-5-new/
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/mannys-modulation-manifesto-lead-sounds/
https://yamahasynth.com/learn/synth-programming/mannys-modulation-manifesto-wrapping-up-advanced-tips-tricks-fm-quirks/

This playlist also contains all of Manny's videos from the articles above:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQTxY1bERw9IeIXWF5nVQxP26-hGBhkTU&si=jV1u84n3viVL-x56

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