Malik wrote:But I do not know if I would still have liked these if I had listened to the wavetable sounds first.
For me, that's the reason why I've always disliked FM synth so much.
I'm a bit spoiled... having bought a WaveBlaster (1) when they first hit the store shelves, that is almost *ALL* that I had ever heard in the games that supported a P3x0 GM MIDI device. While everyone else that I knew was :clunkity_clunkity_clunkity: with FM synth <grin>, I was rocking along with my WB1 (including with Duke Nukem 3D) 😀
Throughout the decades, I've had several (additional extra) PCs that didn't have a wavetable device installed (WB1, or an AWE32; where I could load in a SoundFont and shell to DOS from W9x), and was forced to hear nothing but FM synth if I wished to play a game on them... I usually ended up completely turning off the music while playing the games on the PCs in question (which, as a musician, is total blasphemy <grin>).