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I know that these articles are quite old by now, but reread them recently and they were certainly some of the most interesting articles I've read for quite a while now!

So The Workings of FR-08's Sound System by KB / Farbrausch articles in part order for others who probably missed them or want to read them again :)

The Workings of FR-08's Sound System - Part 1 - The concept

The Workings of FR-08's Sound System - Part 2 - Why are SMF files smaller?

The Workings of FR-08's Sound System - Part 3 - The basic system

The Workings of FR-08's Sound System - Part 4 - Let's talk about synthesizers

Enjoy! :)

thanks!

If you read it, skip the technical parts; CPUs have gotten way faster and more parallel in the last 15 years, and eg. doing everything sample exact is absolutely possible today. Most of the high level "soft skills" stuff in there is still pretty valid tho, so have fun. Even if my writing proficency embarrassingly reminds me of 50 Shades of Grey or worse nowadays ;)

Also, check out the stuff other people wrote. You would miss out if you didn't follow people like Revival, Ferris and Gopher at least. (And Blueberry and Puryx. And Gargaj. And so many others)

You actually read 50 Shades of Grey?

can someone compile links for others writing kb mentioned please?

what is this 50 Shades of Grey everyone is talking about? The newest Farbrausch demo, which I have missed?

Don't be silly, that would contradict the group's name!

fr-050: shades of grey

The sad thing about the tutorials is that they stop before really any of the DSP comes in :-) But they're useful to get the basics in. I do agree that the “update stuff only once per buffer” idea is a bit outdated, though (it was a bit extreme to me even at the time).

I don't think I ever wrote anything in article form but I can sum up my experience succinctly thus:

"Coders! One you wrote your synth, USE IT A BIT, otherwise you'll never find out why musicians hate it."

:/

Just try not to think about it.

:]

I also haven't really written much on the subject, but I gave a couple talks; this one is most relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLX156OVFTA

also these original articles really did rule back in the day :)

this article on bandlimited synthesis rules too

Revival's series, Art of Softsynth Development.

ferris: Just FWIW, the (Min)BLEP things seemingly don't come out all that well in actual sound quality. (I can probably dig up the paper at some point.)

Gargaj: Actually, the problem with musicians that I've had isn't largely hate, it's indifference. It seems the number of musicians interested in using a 64k synth _at all_ is rather meager (of course this is much easier when the musician and the coder is the same person :-) ).

Don't you think that's the effect and not the cause? :)

I think it´s nice to be limited as musician. So you can push those limits ;)

guardian: making of 4klang

Sesse, hmm, that's odd, minbleps have worked really well for me.

(min)Bleps worked fine for me too.