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Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
Operator 2004-2024 : Twenty Years of FM Synthesis inside Ableton Live In 2004 I created Ableton's first software synthesiser - Operator. On the occasion of its twentieth birthday, this page provides background, a few tips and a download link to a pack with presets I and a few other Ableton colleagues created for this occasion.
"One evening in the autumn of 1967, Chowning was using the mainframe computer in the Stanford AI laboratory to model the sound of two sine wave oscillators in a simple modulation configuration, one altering the pitch of the other to produce vibrato. Curious as to what would occur if he increased the rate and/or depth beyond what was possible with the human touch on an acoustic instrument, he issued instructions to the computer to try some basic multiples, doubling and tripling some of the numbers. I always liked that chorusing sound, and Operator - as well as Sampler and the Granulator instrument series - borrowed this idea, but with a twist: Spread uses two voices, panned hard left and right in the stereo field.
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