MODX FM+

[@shaunm1030]

Your efforts are appreciated Sir. Some very interesting sounds in that selection.👍

[@xaverk]

It's a pleasure.

[@billyjohndecastro469]

Take me back in time im loving ur patch

[@xaverk]

Thank you very much. I would also be interested to know if accesses to Soundmondo work and if the patches I upload can be downloaded properly. Via iOS, no access is possible for me, neither with the previous, nor a newly opened account. Windows still works with MIDI dumps.

[@carolclark1344]

Great demo! Thanks very much! Keep them coming! NAClark \ Philadelphia

[@xaverk]

You're welcome. Gradually I run out of stuff. The MODX has alredy lots of great sounds, not easy to get so much more out off it. What would you be interested in?

[@carolclark1344]

@@xaverk strings lush, and chapel church pipe organs, would be great!

[@xaverk]

@@carolclark1344 One Lush String patch can already be found in my Strings collection. You are right, I have some church organ patches available. Let's see.

[@thesoundzweddingpartyband9276]

Lovely thanks very much.

[@UFO-Ark]

Amazing .. Really is.

[@mremboy]

Great scott! You've done it once again! Xaver = MODMASTER!

[@thesoundzweddingpartyband9276]

Nice

[@spotlight-kyd]

Many cool sounds and quite a few that aren't the usual e-pianos, synth brasses and clangy basses, which are so easy to do in FM that it's rather hard to not come up with these type of patches when you first get into FM. It would have been interesting to get a little more information about how specific sounds are put together: i.e. which algo was used, how many parts, what types of samples are in the AWM2 layers, if there are any, what interesting insert effects were used etc.

[@xaverk]

Thank you for your interest. This is all very instrument-specific and hard to describe with words. MODX has so many parameters and it is impossible to reduce the task to some essential switches. When you own a MODX, the easiest way is to load the patches from Soundmondo and start analysing and modifying the parameters to find own sounds that you like or that are in your mind. With keyboards by other manufacturers I guess one never would end up with the same sounds, perhaps come close. Tutorial videos showing all the menue diving and tweaks and so on, unfortunately, are not my field of expertise. And, again, this is strictly instrument-specific. One other thing, that is my experience since I startet programming synths in the eighties: some implications of parameter changes are not predictable, very surprising and maybe cool, especially in a machine that is as complicated as the MODX. Nonetheless, if you want to have one of my patches tweaked in a certain direction, I surely can help, either per email or tweaking the patch and re-upload it. I hope that this answer is not too long now and at least partially meets your question. 🙂

[@spotlight-kyd]

@@xaverk Thanks, Xaver for your detailed answer. For clarification, I wasn't looking for help on how to do FM sound programming, I guess I was just looking for more context to what I'm hearing in the videos. Or you could say, I was just too lazy to download the sounds and check how they are programmed myself. ;)

[@xaverk]

@@spotlight-kyd I wouldn‘t say lazy. I'm a big proponent of the principle of breaking complicated relationships down to simple principles. Only, the many, partly interdependent parameters produce something like chaos. There is a lot of trial and error involved. Interestingly, even the programmers of the DX7 preset sounds made a similar statement, and that was only about pure 6-operator FM synthesis. How much more complicated are MODX/Montage. Interestingly, other manufacturers such as Roland and Korg are now following suit and also increasingly offer complex pad sounds by combining several internal machines, i.e. synthesis methods. It's a trend right now.

[@spotlight-kyd]

@@xaverk As complex as the FM-X engine in the Montage/MODX is, I wish they would have used the concept of continuously adjustable feedback for each operator from the Reface DX and made it a modulation destination. The All/Odd/Reso operator waveform types in FM-X are great, but modulating the Skirt (or the Resonance) parameter isn't smooth.

[@xaverk]

@@spotlight-kyd I admit, you are much more into the subject than I am. But I don't like to use other waveforms than sine and the whole "skirt" stuff, probably because the result is often not so nice.

[@thesoundzweddingpartyband9276]

Wow!

[@ProjectVastness]

nice sounds, but for me old sounds = dead. ^^

[@xaverk]

Not quite shure, if I understand you right. I deliberately did not copy „old“ sounds of synths back in the days. Mostly this would be a mission impossible due to the basically different technical specs of the synths. The programmers of the first patches for the DX7 did it exactly my way now - play with parameters and values to see what comes out. They clearly saw: it is not science, it is art. On the other hand, if you want to play music, the sound of the instrument has to please the ear of the listener in a certain way. That is the frame. Many instruments haven‘t change their sound since decades or even centuries and still are not dead.