Kurzweil PC3: Tutorial 7 -- FM Synthesis and Programming Strategies

[poserp]

@kaffimusic -- this is explained in video #6, basically SHAPER is a sine wave lookup table, a sawtooth wave on input therefore "reads" back the table from beginning to end and immediately jumps back to the beginning, thus producing a sine wave output. SAW+ mixes in another signal, with the result being that the signal coming into SAW+ modulates the pitch of the sine wave.

[Kaffimusic]

Hello,

one question: Why do you use a saw+ and a shaper instead of a sine and shaper? The classic FM synth´s only used sine waves and so the classic sounds should be recreated with sine also?