Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

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28 points | by Rochus 3 hours ago

3 comments

franky47 1 hour ago

I was lucky to be given a lecture on FM synthesis by John Chowning himself during his visit of my home town about 20 years ago. As a kid that grew up playing a Yamaha DX11, that was a great moment.
wmf 2 hours ago

This guy should have invented file permissions.

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- Lio 3 minutes ago
  
  You could say he now owns file permissions.
- dreamcompiler 12 minutes ago
  
  John Chmoding did that.
- QuantumNomad_ 1 hour ago
  
  Took me a moment to understand! Clever :)
ahartmetz 50 minutes ago

The first surprise for me is that it wasn't invented in Japan, which I just assumed because all the best-known FM chips and synthesizers are from Japan.