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FM8 has an average user rating of 4.38 from 32 reviews

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FM8

Reviewed By ew [all]
February 6th, 2003
Version reviewed: 1.10.006 on Windows

Since FM7's being kindly donated by Native Instruments for this month's contest,maybe this will inspire some of you...
FM7 is a masterpiece!I've owned it for 10 months,and it still makes me smile every time I fire it up.Between user-programmable algorithms,resonant multimode filters,the ability to read Yamaha 4-OP and 6-OP sysex,the adjustable bit rate,etc.,they've brought a classic into the modern age.You can use an external audio source as a carrier or modulator.The envelopes are great,with up to 32 breakpoints,with positive or negative curves.And did I mention the randomization options(for all us lazy people)?Not only can you choose what you want to randomize and a % value;you also have the choice of mild or aggressive randomization.
The manual's written by Craig Anderton,and is logically laid out and easy to use.
The sound?I've owned 3 FM hardware synths(a TX81Z I bought as a guitar synth module,a DX7 and a V50).If any of those had sounded half this good and were this easy to program,I'd still have them.
So,enter the contest and win it!If you don't win,buy it.It's money well spent.
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BlackWinny
BlackWinny
24 August 2013 at 5:00pm

To Miroslav, about the archive files with extension .sit:

The archive files with the extention .sit are a nightmare! Above all for all the people using Windows or Linux.

AVOID the archives .sit files!!.

You compel to install a specific expander for these files which are in a proprietary format! The standard archive/unarchive tools are ALL incompatible with this proprietary format! And even worse, even the specific tool itself change its specifications from a version to another.

To unarchive .sit files, first you compel to install StuffIt Expander... that generally we have not on our systems. So we install this tool... but it's then necessary to know that the last version that expanded the .sit file was the 2010 version. Starting from the 2011 version... Stuffit expander expands only the .sitx version, no more the .sit version.

So you compel your readers to install Stuffit Expander 2010! Not the later versions.

And above all, whatever your operating system... use .zip files or .rar files to stay compatible with every body.

Even you Stuffit tool can create .zip and .rar files to stay compatible with everybody.

To avoid the bothering installation of this specific expander totally unnecessary in the daily use of our systems and so to give access to these four files to EVERYONE, some minutes ago I just reuploaded the four files in the universal standard format that everybody can read natively, the .zip format! And I have set the four files in a one package.

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