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download quite dated german documentation:
dsp.dvi - talking to /dev/dsp and playing a sound
on it
sdlwave.dvi - displaying a fms-sound-file with SDL and
SDL_gfx
fmsdevdoc.dvi - old FMS developer's documentation
fmsdevdocnew.dvi - slightly newer FMS documentation (includes basic documentation of the FMPlayer API)
Download FMS
Der Sternschnuppenzähler - romantische Geschenke (my personal homepage)
(c) 2003-2004 by Daniel Gruen
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So what can you do with this Freakin' Monster Synthesizer?
FMS is basically a tool to generate all kinds of sounds. It should work on any up-to-date Linux system.
Breaking news: fms-1.0 is out!
Up to this day, the following features are implemented:
Playing sounds
- with any frequency and volume
- one after another or at the same time (mixer) or both
- stereo (different sounds on different channels)
- like speech synthesis [listen]
- both on-the-fly playing with direct user access and asynchronous, pre-computed output
- with all modulation options described below
Making noise
- now although it tends to get noisy in any way, we mean real noise here
- in 4 different ways
- nearly-white noise
- narrow band noise
Modulating
- amplitude (volume)
- frequency
- minima, maxima, amplitude and frequency of the modulation (here the "Fully Modular" comes to existence)
- narrowness of the noise frequency band - experimental
Making music
- some-kind-of-midi-mapping mode (sound + envelope = instrument, FMS midi file format)
- auto-converter and player for MUS file format, listen [here] (Musplay)
- auto-composer for those who like a rather modern kind of music - experimental
- chords - experimental
Displaying
- spectrum of a sound
- oscillogram of a sound
Saving
- sounds as oscillograms in FMS file format (mathematical description, not complete wavetables)
- sounds as Fourier overtone amplitudes
- music in FMS midi format
- FMS output in wave format
- wave file sounds in FMS file format (auto-converter) - experimental
GUI
- a somewhat ugly and extremely limited tcl/tk gui
- FROCOR, an installation that connects the FMS sound backend to graphical interfaces and outputs
- a fully modular Qt GUI - experimental, but I'll give you a [screenshot]
Some of these features might not be in the current "stable" release of FMS. If you would like them anyway, please drop me a note and I will send you the current development version.
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