The Maths of FM Synthesis

FM Synthesis is an old-school way of generating musical instrument sounds, initially popularised by the Adlib and SoundBlaster PC sound cards in the late ’80s (and, of course, in piano keyboards). Here’s an example of what FM Synth music sounded like in games . Ahh the nostalgia. A friend who is a school music teacher found that his students all use the same identical samples for instruments for…