John Chowning, professor emeritus of fine arts and music, came up with the idea for the FM synthesizer in 1967. “I kind of stumbled on it,” he recalled. At the time, Chowning was experimenting ...

PLUGIN WEEK 2023: In the late 1960s, whilst studying digital implementations within music and acoustics, Professor John Chowning of Stanford University made what would become a revolutionary discovery ...

Frequency Modulation (or FM) synthesis is a simple and powerful method for creating and controlling complex spectra, introduced by John Chowning of Stanford University around 1973. In its simplest ...

Frequency Modulation (or FM) synthesis is a simple and powerful method for creating and controlling complex spectra, introduced by John Chowning of Stanford University around 1973. In its simplest ...