Hacking the FS1r Part1 – Zeeedit Patch Editor v2

A new version of Zeeedit was released on Jan 1st 2013. PC only.

People may well quibble about the license terms (42 euro locked to one computer), however I think it is an excellent investment if you intend to get serious use from the FS1r.
Sakura is also excellent, but Zeeedit wins on presentation – everything is laid-out beautifully in comprehensive overviews. This makes the FS1r very accessible to me. YMMV.

I decided to record my largely incoherent ramblings on Zeeedit – doing so provides an overview of the FS1r architecture. This will bore the hell out of 99.99999999% of people. But I think it might be be useful to the new FS1r owner struggling in the waves. Hence, and for posterity…

No loud noises in these ones…

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Yamaha FS1R tutorial

The FS1R is a synthesiser. That means it makes up its sounds from scratch, unlike a sampler, which fundamentally plays back a digital recording like a tape recorder, or many other keyboards which, although called synths, are actually a combination of samples and synthesis.

via Yamaha FS1R tutorial | Technical Problems.

FS1r: FSEQ editor in Flash

Amazing.

It’s not as feature-rich as FSeqEdit yet, but you can audition your formant sequences to hear how they sound.

From Zach Archer’s Blog.

via Yahoo FS1r Group.

Fun with Formants: Vocal Sounds with Crystal

Crystal is useful for making synthetic sounds that don’t occur in nature. If instead you want truly human vocal sounds, you’re probably better off with a sampler. Although, even with a sampler, realistic human voices are notoriously difficult to achieve. In this tutorial however, we’re aiming to get synthetic sounds with a vowel-like character.

Nice tutorial from the developers of Crystal VST. Relevant for FS1R.

Grokking the FS1R: Part 5 – Formant Choir Dissection

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A closer look at the programming of Formant-based patches, using a Choir example.