I) Installation
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Please refer to "INSTALL" for install instructions.


II) Playing sounds
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FMS is capable of playing sounds (e.g. sine waves, triangular waves etc., some examples can be found in the sounds/ directory) with any frequency, volume and length. Sounds can be mixed, their properties can be modulated. The basic tools doing this is
	fmplay
Please refer to the fmplay manpage for instructions.
If you need a uds controlled fms backend you may use
	fmsbackend
Please refer to the fmsbackend manpage for instructions.


III) Recording sounds
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You can define new FMS sound files (new shapes) with 
	fmfile
Please refer to the fmfile manpage for instructions. There also are some automatic tools (fmautofile, fmautofou) to convert wave files into FMS sound files.


IV) Displaying sounds
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You can display the shapes of FMS sound files with
	fmdisplay
of graphically with
	xfmdisplay
For spectra analysis of files in mode 4 (Fourier mode) you can use
	xfmspectrum
Please refer to the respective manpages for instructions.


V) Music
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You can replay .MUS files (see mus/ directory) with 
	musplay
Generic FMS midi mode files (see midi/ directory) can be played with
	fmplay
Please refer to the respective manpages for instructions.
There are experimental programs like comp1 that make use of lots of fms features to create electronical music.


VI) Noise, recursive Modulation
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FMS has noise (white noise, narrow band noise) support. See 
	fmrandtest
For multi-generation modulation see
	fmrfmtest

VII) GUI
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A very simple tcl/tk GUI is included:
	fmsfrontend
