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

RRochus about 3 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on youtube.com

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

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franky47•about 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•about 1 hour ago

This guy should have invented file permissions.

QuantumNomad_•about 1 hour ago

Took me a moment to understand! Clever :)