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by SonOfLilit 957 days ago
FM is designed to be calculated digitally, and with a few hacks (like a lookup table for a function involving sin() and log()) can be calculated very cheaply.

In the DX7 it was done on custom digital circuitry, but modern CPUs are just as happy to do a few additions and a table lookup once in a while.