Volca FM 2

I will spare you the seminar on the different forms of synthesis for creating electronic sounds, but let's just say that I am primarily a fan of 'subtractive synthesis', whereby you take a sound generated by an oscillator and sculpt it with filters and envelopes.

But when we did FM synthesis on my course, I realised that there were interesting possibilities there, using a process where you modulate your original signal with the signal from other oscillators.

This, then, in today's photo is a little FM synthesiser, part of Korg's excellent Volca range of small budget synths, whose slightly plasticky build belies the excellent sounds they can produce.

The question of whether I actually needed another synth can wait for another day :-)

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