Programming FM sounds with the BRENSO oscillator | Frap Ideas

Here's some sound design with BRENSO’s FM circuit! Its through-zero linear FM capabilities play well with sounds like glasses, bells, plucked bass, and more.

The modules we used:

BRENSO: https://frap.tools/brenso/
FALISTRI: https://frap.tools/falistri/
SAPÈL: https://frap.tools/sapel/
333: https://frap.tools/333/

The talks mentioned in this video:

Exponential FM:    • Frequency Modulation Part 1: Exponent...  
Linear FM:    • Frequency Modulation Part 2: (Through...  
PWM and flip sync:    • Pulse-Width Modulation and Sync with ...  

00:00 Overview
00:58 General FM tips: V/oct and modulation amount
04:19 Programming a FM plucked bass sound
07:50 Programming an FM lead
09:17 Getting the "glass sound" with linear FM
10:42 Using exponential FM for some sound effects
13:15 Designing a bell sound
15:54 Creating a mallet sound in with FM synthesis by modulating the modulator's frequency
18:26 Getting weird with modulation


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