AM Synthesis?

[Radium]

Hi:

I've heard a lot about FM synthesis? What about AM synthesis? Are there
any AM synths available on the market?

Thanks,

Radium

[colone...@yahoo.com]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Radium wrote:

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> Hi:
>
> I've heard a lot about FM synthesis? What about AM synthesis? Are there
> any AM synths available on the market?

No "AM synths" as such. AM is a very basic function. Even many "FM" synths
can do some AM (of course in the trivial sense of volume variations, they
all can).

A voltage controlled amplifier is basically an "amplitude modulator". Most
will take an audio signal as both the carrier and the modulator, so almost
any synth is AM capable. Some VCAs don't work right if the modulating
signal goes negative so sometimes a special one called a ring, balanced or
four quadrant modulator is used.

You might also want to look at phase modulation or phase distortion if you
are interesting in different modulation schemes.

3ch

[Helge Stenstrom]

"Radium" <gluc...@excite.com> writes:

> Hi:
>
> I've heard a lot about FM synthesis? What about AM synthesis? Are there
> any AM synths available on the market?

The Mini Moog?

[Nil Geisweiller]

Hi,

I know that the Roland D50 contains AM (or more exactly Ring Modulation,
that is the modulator can be positive and negative) but it is just a
small part of its synthesizer. All synthesizers have AM (tremolo, Amp
envelope, ...). About a synthesizer using AM as its very fundamental
synthesis, I don't know? Maybe none.

Nil

[aamanodnb]

There are a number of AM softsynths available, like the Cameleon5000
and VirSyn makes one as well (I think it is called the Cube). You can
do an easy search for them on www.kvraudio.com

Jeremy