Captain Ironhelm wrote:GCKrastin wrote:. . .
Literally the only thing it can't do is FM, but for that we have Sytrus/FM8.
I don't understand the point of FM if you've got talent in subtractive, with which you can get nearly the same sounds perhaps with a little effort. Could someone enlighten me to why many find FM attractive?
FM is great for all sorts of stuff, although I mostly use it for squelchy talking basses and stuff, SeamlessR style. It takes a lot of getting used to because it's very very easy to accidentally make some really bad sounds with it. Often times just changing one operator by 1% could completely change the whole sound.
I know most people use it for synthesizing drums, but I've never been able to get very good at that myself.
I've actually kinda forgotten how to use subtractive synths because I always use additive or FM now... The nice thing about Sytrus though is that you can use it like a 6-oscillator subtractive synth if you want to.
Sytrus also has RM synthesis available, and all the operators are made with an additive engine (like Harmor's oscillators) which means you can do subtractive, FM, and RM synthesis all in a single synth, and all the operators are made with additive stuff.