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

31 points by Rochus ago | 6 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning

franky47 |next [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

This guy should have invented file permissions.

Lio |root |parent |next [-]

You could say he now owns file permissions.

dreamcompiler |root |parent |next |previous [-]

John Chmoding did that.

QuantumNomad_ |root |parent |previous [-]

Took me a moment to understand! Clever :)

ahartmetz |previous [-]

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.