[dvas]

This is great! What a lovely read.

Reminds me back of my teenage years mesmerised by software/hardware synths, daws and everything and anything related to audio tech. Hours spent trying to understand different waves, oscillations, LFOs, modulation, AM, FM and so on and so forth. I could go on all day. Great memories.

Anyhow, would be interesting to go down a rabbit hole reading up on the waveform representation for the DX7. Now that I remember, I will go ahead and look for SH-101.

[fsckboy]

DX-7 was digital FM synthesis, so while it uses waveforms to modulate other waveforms (digitally at least), and waveforms come out the other end, it's not based on typical "analog synth" waveforms the way the SH-101 is.