FM

This patch demonstrates how one might make an audio patch that can serve as a voice in a polyphonic synthesizer. It's quite similar to the FMtone~ patch shown in “Generating a simple 2-operator FM tone”, but with some modifications that make it suitable for use with the poly~ object so that it can be used polyphonically.

In order to enable and disable portions of an audio program easily, and to be able to reuse them multiple times, you will probably want to encapsulate an entire audio-generating or audio-processing procedure inside a single patch with inlets and outlets so that it can be used as a subpatch object in some other patch. This patch shows an example of a simple 2-oscillator frequency modulation tone generator that could easily be used as a subpatch in some other patch.