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Frankly, none of your arguments are in disagreement with what I said.
I remember an interviewer asking one of the synth designers at Modal if the 002 has FM. The reply was basically you can get those sounds easily with the waveforms pretty much straight off the bat without having to fuss with anything. Anyhow, my point is, acoustic/electroacoustic instruments are harmonically richer regardless. I would rather use multilayered samples of said instruments as building blocks to create new and interesting complex sounds. While what I call "press a button to win" evolving sounds are perhaps good for film scores and impressing ones synth buddies, it doesn't have much of an application for my personal use. Though the PX for example surely holds its own in that regard.
As Brian so elegantly put it, a large part of the charm of past technology is due to jankiness. If people want to chase that dragon, then more power to them. I'm sure many will disagree with my assessment, but that's my personal view and I've taken up enough of this thread with it already.
Basically I disagree with that... you cannot get with the Modal's wavetables what you get with an FM synth... and I'm talking MODULATION ASPECTS here, not tone... in no way would you be able to create the same complex modulations with a wavetable as you would with several FM operators that have their parameters changeable in realtime.
I'm talking a 1:1 comparison here... I'm fully aware that you may be able to produce a lead sound with both techniques that would be "in the same category", but I'd like to see a 1:1 replica of a complex FM patch done with wavetables or sample synthesis for that matter... it is just not doable, and that is enough for me to want FM synthesis.
Sure... it's a hassle to work with FM, and it's unpredictable unless you really know what you're doing, and it's not the most friendly and intuitive synthesis technique available (probably the worst one I'd say), and if i had to choose three synthesis types, FM would definitely NOT be one of them because of the lacking ease of use... but FM synthesis surely has it's advantages too, and I want the option
That is my personal view... I would myself choose sample synthesis over FM... but when I can have both, i do not see why not