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Anthony Marinelli (film composer and synth programmer for many artists including Micheal Jackson) recently made a series of documentaries about FM Synthesis and its inventor John Chowning, the DX7 is mentioned multiple times alongside the Synclavier which used the same synthesis method but predated the DX7.

About Chowning and the DX7 https://youtu.be/Mu8lHX-xuSg

Other videos about FM and contemporary applications https://youtu.be/Pl7BY4C9Cg4 and https://youtu.be/Uoiqy5mkUKE

Aboout Synclavier https://youtu.be/G5T7NBLSY0c




The synclavier went even further with resynthesis capabilities:

You would feed the synth some audio and the synclavier would attempt at reproducing the audio snippet through FM synthesis.


In the future you can get a synclavier on your iphone.

We live in that future.

https://www.synclavier.com/synclavier-go/


Oh, and apparently there's a new hardware desktop Synclavier!

Synclavier Regen weighs in at $2.5K, but then again, it was never a budget brand in the first place:

https://www.synclavier.com/synclavier-regen/




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