You’ve Always Wanted To FM Anything Against Anything, Right?
If you’re like me, a little bit obsessed with sound and music, you will have come across FM synthesis and perhaps discovered how diverse the potential palette is, but also what a fricking nightmare it is to
Understand
..and
Program.
Aside from those enormous obstacles, it is an extremely powerful and deep source of sounds should you dare to tread the path. But this isn’t a lesson in FM. It is an opportunity to present to you one of my mad scientist audio toys; FMinFM.
What it allows you to do is frequency modulate any audio signal against another audio signal, and back again if you so wish. Folks might say ‘but how to do you frequency modulate a live audio signal which isn’t an oscillator with a frequency modulation input?’, and that’s the right question. What you do is you feed it into a delay buffer and modulate the delay time of that buffer every-single-sample. So that’s what this sonic destroyer does.
This is only available as a plogue bidule patch at the moment but I might get the opportunity to turn it into a plugin soon, which should be a lot of fun (for you, not me; developing software is another kind of nightmare). In the meantime please enjoy how quickly this thing makes a hell-soup of audio material.