Ropender 2025-07-03 10:13:35

HOLY SHIT FM8 MENTIONED THE MOST GOATED PLUGIN IN DNB RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ropender 2025-07-03 10:13:49

and yeah i can help, js add me on discord lol, user's ropender

MoonL13 2025-07-04 09:58:54

just mess around wit it it's a very powerful synthesizer like watch tutorials, and try to study the presets in the synth. Also if u know like math and calculus and other wave science it gets a lot more fun. There are a few quirks I'll mention that could help you.

As for actual use of the synth, right click the letters in your FM matrix to toggle them on or off. You can click the empty squares and drag up or down on them to route one thing into another. The arrows tell you what's being routed. A-F are operators (basically oscillators that can either modulate other oscillators, be modulated, or modulate themselves) X and Z are distortion/noise generator and filter respectively. To route something into the output just drag the lighter squares at the bottom, the number correlates to how loud the output is. The darker squares at the bottom control the panning, depending on if you drag them up or down.

If your modulator (The operator going into the carrier) is a sine one octave above the carrier (The operator being modulated), it will remove all odd harmonics from the sound, which will basically give it a "square wave" sound. This applies to other synths and can give your patch a metallic sound to it.

Inverting your waveforms can create cool and unique sounds, though I haven't experimented enough to find a pattern. One of the coolest things about FM8 is its routing. The entire matrix is super fun to mess around with and there's so many possibilities. Like u can route the distorted sound of something back into the operators, you can give the operators feedback from themselves, it's pretty fun.

FM8 is technically not an FM synth, it's a PM synth. FM implies you're directly modulating the pitch of the sound, whereas what you're actually doing is modulating the phase, which changes the pitch.