snip---- Were there any other notable "synthesiser on a chip" attempts?

yamaha made (& still make) a load of fm chips for home computers (they make them for phones now)... there's a web page somewhere with all the chips (the sega megadrive had a semi-4op fm chip in it for instance)

all the best

adam

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