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FM synthesis

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FM synthesis
A technique for generating the sounds of musical instruments for MIDI playback. Used in cellphones for ringtones and low-end sound cards, FM synthesis does not create sound as faithfully as wavetable synthesis, which uses actual samples of the instruments. See MIDI and wavetable synthesis.


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Typically, the sound generated by computers is FM synthesis, which is recognisably digital and tinny in tone.
The Nexperia Cellular System Solution provides handset manufacturers with a portfolio of integrated hardware and software solutions for mobile-based multimedia applications such as MMS, Java-based gaming, MP3, Video-MPEG4 and MPEG4 encoding, email, FM Synthesis for melody generation, speech recognition, PC Connectivity and USB.
On two associated projects in the late 1970's at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies) Fast worked with direct-to-disk digital recording, sampling and resynthesis, computer control of synthesizers, computer generated FM synthesis and other techniques years before they entered the mainstream.
 
 
 
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