What a great synth. Can't believe I didn't come across this earlier.

Thank you guys for putting this together. Two words tho - Dry Run! Not having a mouse pointer was an issue but I'm sure the tutorials will be great. If you can, PLEASE do whatever is possible to record and post those in 4K with high audio quality. That would be very much appreciated so we can see all the details of the UI and hear the sounds in the best clarity. Keep in mind KZfaq's compression (audio CODEC) is awful and is absolutely merciless on FM synthesized sounds as well. I understand where Woody is coming from re: not really trying the instrument out before passing judgment - do that at your own peril (not a great approach to understand a new instrument). F.'Em LOOKS very promising, but not everybody likes dubstep/DnB stuff - I personally loathe it and can mostly "tune it out". HOWEVER, I *do* think that it's incumbent on *you* and *your team* to come up with patches that REALLY capture the power and promise of your instrument, and not to expect total noobs to unleash the power. I think F.'Em could be incredible but please don't pigeonhole yourselves to one polarizing genre. Where are the lush ambient sounds and super rich pads? Yes, there's a few in there, but they are very sparse. I've had no installation or usage issues with the trial, and in general the "quality" of the software is very good. Stuff in the UI all looks VERY good, and I'm excited to hear some additional sound designers "take" on this thing with the additional operators and layering capabilities. Will you support native Apple silicon (yes, M1) with a universal binary soon? I can only imagine how performance could possibly improve (or get way more complicated) once this happens. I have a LOT to learn about this instrument and have some fun sessions planned. It looks to be an amazingly powerful FM-based engine, and I'm sure I'll have fun experimenting.

This is the best possible synth to us the CLAP plug-in format with all the modulation. After using the UHe CLAP synths I thought of F'em.

This is such an amazing and deep synth. I hope there are a good set of tutorials planned. Great job folks!

I recently bought Abyss but F.'em was almost my final choice. But I did put it on my wish list!

So happy to see this finally shipping! It's an _extremely_ thorough &versatile implementation, and most importantly it sounds great. I appreciated Wolfram and Taiho letting me see it last year & truly bummed I couldn't participate in voicing pre-release. Excited to make up for lost time :) If you want to get into FM -- F'em ! Manny

Thank you for mentioning the 90 day trial again at the end.

Also, just a bit of graphic design critique: I love the colorful, flat controls on the dark background. It seems to say, "This is a modern software synth and doesn't need to look like hardware." The ADSR sliders and the piano keyboard however look skeuomorphic and don't match.

Keep up the good work!

Does those tutorials about FM from Klaus ever had be made? Cant find anywhere

I'ma try out the demo and see if it's something I'd use. Before that, though, I would say that making each operator more malleable would be the logical next step in improving the synth. One of FM8's shortfalls was only having 10-15 waveforms, many of which were sorta similar. Similarly, Sytrus can only resample a single frame of sound into an operator and change only certain transforms of the waveform. The goal would be to make operators more like wavetables. That way you can leverage MPE, Flow LFO, and other routing possibilities. Also, .scl and .tun is key for me... but that's me.

I'd love for the browser to work more like Alchemy where you can have a loop playing and just up-down arrows (or single-click) to listen to each present in turn. What I'm experiencing now is having to double-click or arrow+return key. It makes a big difference when going through lots of presets to find the right sound.

I quite like the presets quite alot .F:em will be a good sound design tool into the future .It did freeze once in CUBASE Pro 11.I had to restart the PC in order the resolve the issue .Could stability be a consideration for an upcomming patch ?

Wolfram, you mentioned (and show) v1.0.5, yet my downloader/updater has me at 1.0.4 (MacOS) with no updated available. Do you know when it will be "published" so I can update, and will there be release notes showing changes? Thanks!

Is this for waveform 11 free to?

Synth needs sound improvement. It's too thin compared to DX7. It needs saturator and better filters. UI is good

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FM is not very loved synthesis type and plugin is quite expensive to justify it for occasional use. I think it will sell better at lower price.

It is the worse Synth Demo I have ever tried!! Every 2nd preset I try the white noise starts & it is extremely annoying! I uninstalled it within 10 minutes on my Mac Studio! I understand it is in demo mode but for gods sake can't I use your demo in peace so that I can listen to all the presets without getting annoyed with the constant white noise rubbish?