> Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, are the hottest mathematical co-processor since the FM synthesis chips that shaped the sounds of the 1990s
since FM was more of an 80s thing. Even their linked comment says
> Throughout the 90s FM was old-hat. Nobody wanted to hear those woody clangy sounds of the 80s anymore.
FM synthesis has kept being a thing ever since in specific applications but the zeitgeist of the 90s (and its modern postmodern retreads like vaporwave) is arguably digital sampling.
That's a fair point! I was thinking of the Yamaha chips in the Sega consoles mentioned in that comment -- which certainly defined the sound of the 1990s for me as a child. But my small town Midwestern up-bringing was behind the curve!
> Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, are the hottest mathematical co-processor since the FM synthesis chips that shaped the sounds of the 1990s
since FM was more of an 80s thing. Even their linked comment says
> Throughout the 90s FM was old-hat. Nobody wanted to hear those woody clangy sounds of the 80s anymore.
FM synthesis has kept being a thing ever since in specific applications but the zeitgeist of the 90s (and its modern postmodern retreads like vaporwave) is arguably digital sampling.