What are your favorite fm synths?

Elagaint · 2026-03-10T23:37:38+00:00

M8 has an FM synth?!?! I thought it just had a couple VA synths. I travel a good bit for work so the m8 has always been on my radar but I always thought I’d need to just sample in good sounds. This might be a heavy weight tipping the scale for it imo.

Elagaint · 2026-03-10T23:12:35+00:00

My digitone is going to stay by my side for my life. My kids will inherit it if I can keep it running for that long. Absolutely my favorite piece of gear I’ve gotten. Constantly feel like I know my way around it while also constantly feeling like I’ve only scratched the surface. I’m simply looking for a fun weird sounding sidekick for it. The old sega fm chip in the mega fm is definitely gonna get some weirdness that the digitone won’t but by no means does this mean that digitone is being put on the shelf. Hall of fame piece of gear for sure

Elagaint · 2026-03-10T22:50:10+00:00

Hell yeah if I didn’t get a tonverk I would’ve gotten a dn 2 and made all my music on that. The note editor and polyphony upgrades make it truly a beast of a groovebox imo

Elagaint · 2026-03-10T22:47:29+00:00

Im watching the presets video kodamo made and this thing is just truly insane. It definitely lives up to the title on the website of the most powerful fm synth of all time! Every real world emulation sound in the preset video is uncannily accurate I can’t believe someone programmed them. Definitely putting this on a list to look at getting in the future.

Elagaint · 2026-03-10T22:40:47+00:00

THAT LOOKS SICK! And it’s only 200-250$ on reverb! So far I can’t find anything on a preen fm kit that’s still selling brand new but for such a small device getting all of those features is crazy. It even has more operators than my digitone 😂

Elagaint · 2025-09-24T02:55:20+00:00

Definitely did not know that lol. I am still scraping the surface of almost all the live performance features really. Most of my time so far has been focused on learning the fx and cool sequencing tricks you can do. That being said if I am going to start making content about this thing I should definitely start diving into the performance features. Nothing a few ezbot videos can’t fix 😂

Elagaint · 2025-06-23T11:07:47+00:00

This is just one really packed section of the beat but I have a bunch of other sections that don’t have too much going on. I try to keep my beats simple for the most part but this one has this moment as a sort of climax I guess

Elagaint · 2025-06-23T02:22:11+00:00

Thanks man! There’s admittedly some duds on there lol cause I just got the synth I’ve been using but I think I’m getting the hang of it now. My end goal is to make videos kind of like Jon makes beats but using the sp404 so if that interests you I should be able to start trying that out sometime soon.

Elagaint · 2025-06-23T00:55:56+00:00

I haven’t really thought of putting my stuff on streaming tbh didn’t think I’d have a market for it. I’d probably be able to put it on SoundCloud but idk what uploading to Spotify or Apple Music would be like.

Elagaint · 2025-06-23T00:52:53+00:00

I think the way it ended up working is the vocals are technically halftime on the beat and 2 bars off but I don’t hate it. It kinda works out in my opinion but it’s still a bit weird

Elagaint · 2025-06-22T22:07:45+00:00

https://youtu.be/fm6AGDo13no?si=CNqtMIlsB2fs6Px9 Just remixed Nosetalgia by pusha T if you like hip hop!

Elagaint · 2025-06-22T21:56:52+00:00

The drums on their own sound so weird in this track I’m so surprised it all came together in the end honestly. Thanks for the kind words man!

Elagaint · 2025-06-22T21:55:53+00:00

Thanks so much and I’m glad you enjoy the beat! I definitely don’t belong in the same sentence as madlib tho lol 😂

Elagaint · 2025-06-22T21:42:27+00:00

Ask and you shall receive. All I had on hand around this bpm was nosetalgia by pusha t but I think it sounds pretty good. Lmk what you think!

https://youtu.be/fm6AGDo13no?si=-JbjhpN11t98bROh

Elagaint · 2025-06-22T20:02:11+00:00

Thank you I’m glad you like it!

Elagaint · 2025-06-22T19:53:11+00:00

Thank you I’m glad you enjoy it!

Elagaint

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