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FM8

Synth (FM) Plugin by Native Instruments
MyKVRFAVORITE362WANT62
$229 / €199

FM8 has an average user rating of 4.38 from 32 reviews

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User Reviews by KVR Members for FM8

FM8

Reviewed By yul [all]
July 14th, 2010
Version reviewed: fm8 on Windows

No reviews since a few years!

Well I finally bought into FM8. It beats the hell out of most of my synths and truly competes with my Prophet 08 and Jd-800.

It is probably still one of the best synths on the market and I wouldn't be surprised if it is being used by major studios.

FM synthesis is not dead since you can obtain any kind of result with patience and experience. The sounds you can obtain are remarkable.

A tip for newbies, try to see how far you can go with just 2 operators using feedback and mess with the ratios.

Stay away from the filter in the beggining because you will get bad habits from your analog synths. If you mess with the filter too soon, you will miss the point.

2 operators will really get you far. Use the effects, noise and the X operator to beef it up a bit.

Can sound like a complete orchestra if you put enough time into it.

I can safely say this competes easily with Massive.

I currently own Tera 3 and this is the only synth I probably will need.

I tried Zebra and can say it is in the same class (both being different).
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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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