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I searched on this site for FM8 and nothing came up. Anyone into FM8? After I figured it out it's pretty nice. It's like a nasty version of Absynth.

FM8 is freakin awesome.

FM8 wins all the prizes. All of them.

yes i just bought FM8 too. tbh though i'm finding fm synthesis to be a lot more difficult than subtractive synthesis. i'm just doing very simple things at the moment. one thing i will say about FM8 though is that it is amazing sounding. i really really love the sound of it.

i recommend looking at any youtube tutorials you can find. there arent many but there are enough to get a good idea of what the hell is going on in the FM matrix. these two have nothing to do with dubstep but theyre def helpful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KNDSff ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r6s9nxj ... re=related

FM8 is Epic Win!!! (All of the Native Instruments are, really).

jsills wrote:i recommend looking at any youtube tutorials you can find. there arent many but there are enough to get a good idea of what the hell is going on in the FM matrix. these two have nothing to do with dubstep but theyre def helpful.

Yeah it sucks there are not videos. It's cause its a harder program to use. Try to find Reaktor tutorials as well.

Yeah the Matrix is fun to play with. I wish there were arrows to go through the presets the FM matrix has. You have to open that long drop down menu to change. Also still a little unsure on how to tune the oscillators. Anyone know the principals in the Ops section? Ratio, Offset?

is there a initialized patch in dm8 or does it not work that way?

never used fm8.. but my guess is it's not too far off from operator... which is

so yeah

tavravlavish wrote:is there a initialized patch in dm8 or does it not work that way?

ya i thnk you just click file at the top and there is a default or initialize there. i could be wrong im at work but you can certainly initialize it.

i have def made some dope bass with operator as well.

tavravlavish wrote:is there a initialized patch in dm8 or does it not work that way?

Open FM8 and click "new sound" up at the top

How to Make a Noise has a good FM section, it's not FM8 specific, but is very useful if you've never used FM synthesis.

You can get the free version from http://noisesculpture.com/htman_free.html

you've probably already seen these but these are some of my bookmarks that i've found useful for trying to get to grips with FM synthesis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OWsez10Zg
http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/article.cfm?id=148
http://emusician.com/news/emusic_square_one_fm/
http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_o ... _standing/
http://www.angelfire.com/music/creon/bgfm.htm
http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/fmtut.html
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr00/a ... ecrets.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may00/a ... /synth.htm

i also have FM Theory and Applications on my computer, which i downloaded from somewhere a while ago. couldn't find the original link so i just uploaded it again here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JJESW0GL