Is a Digitone easy to handle?

[SoundRider]

@blakewalt

Did you get around to go like I want this kind of sound then I’ll use this algo with i-dont-know-what with the Digitone or you need to fiddle a lot before?
This is the only thing I’m worrying.

If you are up to create very particular sounds, there is a need to understand some basics of FM synthesis first. Just to be honest, subtractive and FM synthesis don’t really compare, it’s quite a different approach to create sounds.

But after getting ones head around the basics of two operators working in tandem, there is no need to worry about the algorithms and sounds can easy be “constructed” without trial and error

Maybe some information about FM in general …

Your approach to FM synthesis?

Welcome to the universe of FM sounds … really … it’s a new universe, if you are beginning to explore it and it will stay a new universe, even if you have much experience in sound design To start a FM sound from scratch successfully, it’s very important, to have a basic understanding of how FM-synthesis works in general and what the basic methods are. But first things first … don’t be scared, because there is no reason … it’s only new and unfamiliar. You are right that there are some “ma…

Maybe this can shade some light to “algorithms” …

Algorithms and their effects

There is definitely an intention, why the algorithms are so different. I try to explain this on some general examples. All operators are parallel: Well there is no FM obviously, but we can have for each operator a single waveform at a different pitch, which would be like having a very simple additive method. Organ like sounds can easily be done with such an algorithm. All operators are in a single chain: This gives us much FM. Only one operator generates sound, all others are modulators …