Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (youtube.com)

31 pointsby Rochus4 hours ago6 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning

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.

QuantumNomad_ 2 hours ago

Took me a moment to understand! Clever :)

dreamcompiler 30 minutes ago

John Chmoding did that.

Lio 21 minutes ago

You could say he now owns file permissions.

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.