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  2. Synthesizer - Wikipedia

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    A synthesizer (also synthesiser [1] or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis , additive synthesis and frequency modulation synthesis .

  3. Electronic musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer. An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener.

  4. List of electronic music genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology.A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. [1]

  5. Analog synthesizer - Wikipedia

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    An analog synthesizer (British English: analogue synthesiser) is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s, such as the Trautonium , were built with a variety of vacuum-tube (thermionic valve) and electro-mechanical technologies.

  6. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 314.122

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    This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 314.122 under that system (box zithers).These instruments are board zithers that use slats as resonators.

  7. Music technology (electronic and digital) - Wikipedia

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    Computer and synthesizer technology joining together changed the way music is made and is one of the fastest-changing aspects of music technology today. Max Mathews , an acoustic researcher [ 9 ] at Bell Telephone Laboratories ' Acoustic and Behavioural Research Department, is responsible for some of the first digital music technology in the 1950s.

  8. List of synthesizers - Wikipedia

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    Synthesizer Notes Ref. 1963 Buchla: Buchla Model 100 Series [1] 1965 Moog Music: Moog synthesizer: First commercial synthesizer [2] 1970 Moog Music: Minimoog: First synthesizer sold in retail stores [3] [4] 1970 Buchla: Buchla Series 200 [1] 1978 Sequential Circuits: Prophet-5: First fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer [5] 2008 Dave Smith ...

  9. Digital synthesizer - Wikipedia

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    A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds, in contrast to older analog synthesizers, which produce music using analog electronics, and samplers, which play back digital recordings of acoustic, electric, or electronic instruments. Some digital synthesizers emulate analog ...