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Here’s a larger picture that traces the path of the FM signal to VCO 1 after raising
the Amp amount:
FM output being fed into VCO 1
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how Oscillator FM works. The frequency of VCO 2
affects the VCO 1 waveform in ways that are impossible with normal additive
synthesis or even Oscillator sync. And using a mod routing to change the VCO 2
frequency with an envelope, for example, will cause the harmonic content of VCO
1 to change over time in ways an analog filter would not be able to produce, either.
4.2.2.1
Filter FM
A similar path exists between the FM output and the Filter section. Simply press the
FM DEST toggle button at the bottom of the FM parameter group and the blue line
will point downward, making the connection to VCF. You can trace the connection
to the Filter section by following those little blue lines in the Parameter window, as
we did with the connection to VCO 1.