Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (youtube.com)
30 points by Rochus 4 hours ago
franky47 2 hours 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 2 hours ago
This guy should have invented file permissions.
Lio 10 minutes ago
You could say he now owns file permissions.
dreamcompiler 19 minutes ago
John Chmoding did that.
QuantumNomad_ 2 hours ago
Took me a moment to understand! Clever :)
ahartmetz an hour ago
The first surprise for me is that it wasn't invented in Japan, which I just assumed because all the best-known FM chips and synthesizers are from Japan.