Chownings discovery of FM synthesis earned Stanford University a pile of money with the technologys licensing to Yamaha. Photo: Sunway University
It's always the case, isn’t it? The ones who’ve truly done something significant and contributed to the greater good are the least hung up about what they’ve achieved and how they got there.
John Chowning discovered (appropriated from nature, he would say) the algorithm of FM synthesis, the digital technology which consigned analogue synthesisers to the history books with a single product, the Yamaha DX7 Digital Programmable Algorithm Synthesizer.
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