fmb3 — Uses FM synthesis to create a Hammond B3 organ sound.
Uses FM synthesis to create a Hammond B3 organ sound. It comes from a family of FM sounds, all using 4 basic oscillators and various architectures, as used in the TX81Z synthesizer.
fmb3 takes 5 tables for initialization. The first 4 are the basic inputs and the last is the low frequency oscillator (LFO) used for vibrato. The last table should usually be a sine wave.
The initial waves should be:
ifn1 -- sine wave
ifn2 -- sine wave
ifn3 -- sine wave
ifn4 -- sine wave
kamp -- Amplitude of note.
kfreq -- Frequency of note played.
kc1, kc2 -- Controls for the synthesizer:
kc1 -- Total mod index
kc2 -- Crossfade of two modulators
Algorithm -- 4
kvdepth -- Vibrator depth
kvrate -- Vibrator rate
Here is an example of the fmb3 opcode. It uses the file fmb3.csd.
Example 148. Example of the fmb3 opcode.
See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.
<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
; Audio out Audio in No messages
-odac -iadc -d ;;;RT audio I/O
; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
; -o fmb3.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>
; Initialize the global variables.
sr = 44100
kr = 4410
ksmps = 10
nchnls = 1
; Instrument #1.
instr 1
kamp = 15000
kfreq = 440
kc1 = 5
kc2 = 5
kvdepth = 0.005
kvrate = 6
ifn1 = 1
ifn2 = 1
ifn3 = 1
ifn4 = 1
ivfn = 1
a1 fmb3 kamp, kfreq, kc1, kc2, kvdepth, kvrate, \
ifn1, ifn2, ifn3, ifn4, ivfn
out a1
endin
</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
; Table #1, a sine wave.
f 1 0 32768 10 1
; Play Instrument #1 for two seconds.
i 1 0 2
e
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>