Halbert wrote:
> Just going by my own ancient experience working with DX7s and similar 
> synths. When the modulating wave form is not an even multiple of the carrier 
> wave, you will tend to get more metallic tymbres. I don't know what's going 
> on with FM synthesis these days, but <old geezer voice> back in my day, all 
> we had was sine waves to synthesize with-- and that's the way we liked 
> it!</old geezer voice> And as such, if you wanted something closer to a 
> sawtooth wave you would add harmonics on the octaves above the carrier.
> To get something more akin to pots and pans, one might add harmonics that 
> were 1.5 octaves above the carrier, etc.
> 
> Of course, none of that may make any sense to anyone. ;-)

LOL!

I'm using Native Instrument's FM8. It offers a small zoo of waveforms, 
but honestly? It doesn't make a lot of difference. It means you can make 
noisy sounds with fewer operators, but that's about it.

Theoretically, you can basically do everything with sine waves anyway, so...

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