[frodebeats]

When did musicians first discover FM and use it in their music? Any examples?
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[Shiru]

Around 1975, when the world first FM synths became available from Yamaha.

[Summa]

The Birth, Rise and Further Rise of FM Synthesis:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug01/articles/retrofmpt1.asp
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Sep01/articles/retrofmpt2.asp
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[zinger]

This CD contains compositions from the father FM synthesis (John Chowning), one of them is from 1971 although it was discovered in the late sixties (you can read more about it in the article that Summa posted): http://www.amazon.com/Phone-1980-1981-Turenas-Stria-Sabelithe/dp/B000025QXO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267305869&sr=1-2

It's an excellent whether album you are interested in the history of FM or not.
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[madbrain]

Yeah. Also, FM really became widespread and known when Yamaha released the DX7 in 1983, and it was all over music (until the Roland D-50 came out in 1987). It's a practical instrument - twice as much polyphony as anything else at that time, MIDI, a great velocity keyboard that even has aftertouch, cartridges to save patches, and so on. Also, since it's all digital, it's probably a lot easier to build than and maintain than analog synths - for all the FM synthesis voices it only uses 2 chips! Without that instrument, FM would have been much more obscure probably.

[shugmonkey]