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First duophonic synthesizer (capable of playing two notes at once) [5] 1975 Moog Music: Polymoog [17] 1969 EMS: VCS3 [5] 1976 Yamaha: CS-80 [5] 1978 Korg: MS-20 [5] 1981 PPG: Wave [5] 1991 Korg: 01/W [18] 1997 Propellerhead Software: ReBirth: One of the first software synthesizers that could be played in real time via MIDI [19] 1996 Roland: JP-8000
Synth-pop (also known as electropop or technopop) [1] [2] is a music genre that uses the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. With the genre becoming popular in the late 1970s and 1980s, the following article is a list of notable synth-pop acts, listed by the first letter in their name (not including articles such as "a", "an", or "the").
The D-50 was the first affordable synthesizer to combine sample playback with subtractive synthesis. The engineers at Roland determined that the most difficult component of an instrument's sound to simulate realistically is the attack. To better emulate realistic sounds, the D-50 included 47 attack samples in ROM.
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.
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲, Tomita Isao, 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016), [1] often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded [2] as one of the pioneers of electronic music [3] [4] [5] and space music, [6] and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements. [7]
Hoover sound refers to a particular synthesizer sound in electronic music, commonly used in rave techno, hardcore techno, gabber, breakbeat hardcore, trance, hard house and hard NRG. Originally called the "Mentasm" , the name that stuck was the one likening the sound to that of a vacuum cleaner (often referred to via the genericized trademark ...
Unlike previous FM synthesizers of the era, the TX81Z was the first to offer a range of oscillator waveforms other than just sine waves, conferring the new timbres of some of its patches when compared to older, sine-only FM synths. The TX81Z has developed a famous reputation, largely based on some of its preset bass sounds.
Roland JX-8P is a 61-key, velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive, six-note polyphonic, almost entirely analog synthesizer released by Roland in 1985. In a time of rising popularity of digital frequency modulation synthesizers, such as Yamaha DX7, JX-8P was marketed as the best of both worlds: while it was possible to create classic analog synth sounds, several new modulation parameters and ...