Manny Fernandez - From DX to MODX

Electronic Music · Sep 15, 2020 · 1h 4m · transcript

Dr Manny Fernandez has been heavily involved in development & programming for Yamaha and is best known for his FM and Physical Modelling work through their glory years of new synthesis technologies in the DX7II, SY77/99, VL1, VP1, EX5, AN1x and FS1R. More recently he has been working with the Reface DX, Montage and MODX.

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction

00:50 - Manny’s history

01:29 - Before the DX7

11:22 - The unpredictability of FM

14:58 - How do YOU do FM?

17:44 - How did you get to work with Yamaha?

24:56 - Birth of the Preset Industry

28:09 - The move to the SY

39:47 - FS1R and beyond

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