FM8 by Native Instruments

FM8 has an average user rating of 4.39 from 33 reviews

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Reviewed By Decembered [all]
March 16th, 2025
Version reviewed: 1.4.6+3 on Windows

After the demise of Absynth, I'm extremely wary of how long this marvel of a synth will be supported by Native Instruments. Apparently there aren't many - if any - FM-based synths on the market that draw close to FM8's vast possibilities. Whereas 'classic' synths of DX7 pedigree are somewhat limited with a fixed number of available algorithms, FM8 allows for much more complex rigs and as such - much more complex sounds, while the complexity of dialling them up is decreased dramatically. What is more, it can read DX7-related synths' SYSEX patches, and heavily improve them - by the means of stereorizing and applying various effects.

It has minor issues such as occasional hanging notes in Reaper or a bit messy morph matrix, but in the end of the day it is a sonic powerhouse, that I wouldn't get rid of, like, ever.

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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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