Obsessed with FM Synthesis

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For a VERY long time I can remember, I've always had a facination of the sound from an FM synthesizer, especially the Yamaha DX7, of which I actually own one..

I like how I can design a sound with only mathematics, and create wonderful metalic sounds, or soft sounds...

But of all, I LOVE FM synthesizers metallic bass sounds. LOVE it LOVE IT LOVE IT!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drazBABpyCw&feature=fvw

Not my video. But that is the exact DX7 model I have, the II FD...

It sounds SOOO beautiful, and it IS an obsession..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90oXegWOyE

That's my video. I remixed a song from a gameboy game.. The drums were the Roland TR-808, but all notes, lead, bass, rythm, were via my DX7... I just love the vast sounds it does...

EDIT: Forgot this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqvR-tJvfA

OLD remix of Rad Racer. Drums were sampled via garageband, and notes are DX7 again. Not stereo however..

Hello Hakemon. I was also obsessed with synths. I began collecting them in the mid 1980s. Just tonight I was listening to a recording I had done using some of the synths, and I noted the clean sound of the FM synths. My fascination was more with the analog synths. A great FM (Yamaha) sound recording would be Ray Lynch.

Here is some of my synth collection:

*Yamaha DX7
*Yamaha DX9
*Yamaha FB01
*Yamaha S03
*Ensoniq SQ2
*Roland D50
*Roland RA30
*Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 (first commercial Midi synth)
*Moog Polymoog
*Moog Opus 3
*Moog Rogue
*ARP Solina String Ensemble
*ARP Omni
*Casio CZ 1
*Casio CZ 101

And here are some portable non-synth classics from the past I have:

*Rhodes Stage Model 73 electric piano
*Hohner D6 Clavinet
*Farfisa Compact Duo organ

Gee---I feel the synth fever coming upon me again.

You know what you'll like if you too like the Yamaha DX series synths? It's a soft-synth called Native Instruments FM8. FM7 was a pure DX7 emulator for Windows and Mac, and was 99% accurate and even loaded the sysex files. Then FM8 took it farther and added effects and more complicated algorithms.

I've recently been pondering of using FM8 in some recordings, especially if this local band who wants me as their singer, let me get my way of using some live keyboards.. (In which case I'd want one MIDI controller keyboard, an M-Audio KeyStation, and use the soft synths on my laptop).

Thank you for the information. I used to keep up on this stuff so much, but I have since kind of gotten away from them. But after finding some of my old recordings, and listening to some synth tapes I found while cleaning the house this weekend, I am feeling some of the fever once again. The FM8 sounds great. I might look into that. My keyboard instruments got more beastly lately---Hammond organs. I have a 1947 Hammond CV, a 1961 Hammond A102 with a 1957 Leslie 25H speaker, and a 1966 Hammond E100 with a small Leslie speaker. As you might have guessed, I hurt my back moving these things around, and in 2004 I underwent back surgery that led to a blood clot and a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism. So the idea of portable synths is quite a bit more reasonable. I don't have the money to spend on this stuff anymore---my two sons are now the expensive hobby .