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    Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency...
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    Frequency modulation (FM) is a signal modulation technique used in electronic communication, originally for transmitting messages with a radio wave. In...
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  • carrier wave. Phase modulation is one of the two principal forms of angle modulation, together with frequency modulation. In phase modulation, the instantaneous...
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    Synthesizer (redirect from Audio synthesis)
    waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and frequency modulation synthesis. These sounds may be altered by components...
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  • The sample synthesis part is based on pulse-code modulation (PCM). It features: Up to 24 simultaneous sounds (voices) Output sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz...
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    dominated by analog synthesizers. Frequency modulation synthesis, a means of generating sounds via frequency modulation (FM), was developed by John Chowning...
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    Pulse-width modulation (PWM), also known as pulse-duration modulation (PDM) or pulse-length modulation (PLM), is any method of representing a signal as...
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  • synthesis is a synthesis method introduced in 1984 by Casio in its CZ range of synthesizers. In outline, it is similar to phase modulation synthesis as...
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  • creating sound compared to other methods such as frequency modulation synthesis or pulse-code modulation. PSGs are controlled by writing data to dedicated...
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  • systems. A frequency synthesizer may use the techniques of frequency multiplication, frequency division, direct digital synthesis, frequency mixing, and...
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  • different frequency and amplitude that swells and decays over time due to modulation from an ADSR envelope or low frequency oscillator. Additive synthesis most...
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    telecommunications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a type of digital transmission used in digital modulation for encoding digital (binary)...
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  • low frequency radio waves, wavelength is on the scale of kilometers and building such a large antenna is not practical. Another purpose of modulation is...
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    architecture combines AFM (Advanced Frequency Modulation) synthesis, AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) for ROM-borne sample-based synthesis, and the combination of these...
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    Programmable sound generators Synthesis Wavetable synthesis Frequency modulation synthesis Sampling Pulse-code modulation sampling While traditional sound...
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  • modulation is a class of signal modulation that is used in telecommunication transmission systems using carrier waves. The class comprises frequency modulation...
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  • PC-9800 computer platform, at 161 beats per minute using a frequency modulation synthesis chip. The Lotus Land Story version that has more than 1.4 million...
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    combining frequency modulation synthesis (branded as Advanced FM) and sample-based synthesis (branded as Advanced Wave Memory 2), a substractive synthesis based...
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    built-in sound synthesis algorithms. In 1973, the Japanese company Yamaha licensed the patent for frequency modulation synthesis (FM synthesis) from John...
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  • quality compared to the previous frequency-division multiplexing schemes. In 1973, adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) was developed, by P...
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  • an audio signal Frequency modulation synthesis, a form of audio synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform is changed by frequency modulating it with...
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  • containing both temporal and frequency information. Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is known as the inventor of the granular synthesis technique, having expanded...
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  • envelope generator. Its main method of synthesis is frequency modulation synthesis, accomplished via phase modulation of the phase of one channel's oscillators...
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  • display monitor. Early games used simple tone generation and/or frequency modulation synthesis to simulate instruments for melodies, and used a "noise channel"...
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  • sound of a plucked string, the filter's cutoff frequency is raised. Additive synthesis – Sound synthesis technique Minimoog – Analog synthesizer manufactured...
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    compatibles, used a stripped-down version of Yamaha's frequency modulation synthesis (FM synthesis) technology played back through low-quality digital-to-analog...
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    synthesis algorithm in 1967. In FM (frequency modulation) synthesis, both the carrier frequency and the modulation frequency are within the audio band. In essence...
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    first stand-alone digital synthesizer, the DX-7. It used frequency modulation synthesis (FM synthesis), first developed by John Chowning at Stanford University...
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  • techniques are: FM synthesis, waveshaping synthesis, and discrete summation formulas. Frequency modulation synthesis distorts the carrier frequency of an oscillator...
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  • Some modulation schemes, such as frequency modulation, survive the nonlinear distortion without ill effect (but schemes such as amplitude modulation do...
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