A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds, in contrast to older analog synthesizers...
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A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating...
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Direct digital synthesis (DDS) is a method employed by frequency synthesizers used for creating arbitrary waveforms from a single, fixed-frequency reference...
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The Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer, better known as the Alles Machine or Alice, was an experimental additive synthesizer designed by Hal Alles at Bell...
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used digital synthesis without a filter instead of traditional analog subtractive synthesis with a filter. Like many early digital synthesizers, its sound...
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Frequency modulation synthesis (redirect from FM synthesizer)
Synclavier I, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation beginning in 1978, included a digital FM synthesizer, using an FM synthesis algorithm licensed...
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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...
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GPS systems. A frequency synthesizer may use the techniques of frequency multiplication, frequency division, direct digital synthesis, frequency mixing...
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Yamaha DX7 (redirect from DX-7 synthesizer)
The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989. It was the first successful digital synthesizer and is one of the...
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One of the most iconic synthesizers is the Roland TB-303, was widely used in acid house music. Classic digital synthesizers include the Fairlight CMI...
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gear. By the 1990s, modular synthesizers had fallen out of favor compared to cheaper, smaller digital and software synthesizers. However, there continued...
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Fairlight CMI (redirect from Fairlight synthesizer)
Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, music sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight....
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DX100 Digital Programmable Algorithm Synthesizer". Encyclotronic. Retrieved 2018-08-17. Moogulator, Mic Irmer. "Yamaha DX100 Digital Synthesizer". www...
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dependent on custom digital integrated circuits to produce FM tonalities. The DX7 was the first mass market all-digital synthesizer. It became indispensable...
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Electronic music (section Digital synthesizers)
early 1980s, mass-produced digital synthesizers such as the Yamaha DX7 became popular, and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was developed. In...
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editor Digital synthesizer Frequency modulation synthesis Sound chip Sound card Audio Interface Quantization Sampling Multitrack recording Digital audio...
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Synclavier (category Digital synthesizers)
Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich...
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additive synthesizer produces its output as an electrical, analog signal, or as digital audio, such as in the case of software synthesizers, which became...
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Synclavier Synthesizer System, which evolved into the Synclavier Digital Audio System or "Tapeless Studio." The company sold an FM digital synthesizer/16-bit...
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The Moog synthesizer (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG) is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. Moog's company, R. A. Moog Co., produced...
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Korg M1 (category Digital synthesizers)
The Korg M1 is a synthesizer and music workstation manufactured by Korg from 1988 to 1995. It is one of the bestselling synthesizers in history, selling...
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digital synthesizer designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. The Triadex Muse is a digital synthesizer...
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Wavetable synthesis (redirect from Wavetable synthesizer)
Synthesis) and Digital Wave Synthesis was the main method of sound synthesis utilised by digital synthesizers starting in the mid 1980s with synthesizers such as...
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A video synthesizer is a device that electronically creates a video signal. A video synthesizer is able to generate a variety of visual material without...
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released in the 1980s. The first was Digital Moonscapes in 1984, Carlos's first to only feature digital synthesizers. She wrote the album's tracks for orchestra...
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Ensoniq ESQ-1 (category Ensoniq synthesizers)
eight-note polyphonic and multitimbral synthesizer released by Ensoniq in 1985. It was marketed as a "digital wave synthesizer" but was an early Music Workstation...
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Alesis Quadrasynth (category Digital synthesizers)
polyphonic PCM sample-based digital subtractive synthesizer first introduced in 1993. It was Alesis's first major foray into synthesizer production. In the Quadrasynth's...
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(PDF). General Instrument. Retrieved 7 October 2020. SP-0250 Speech Synthesizer: Preliminary Information (PDF). General Instrument. Retrieved 7 October...
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A software synthesizer or softsynth is a computer program that generates digital audio, usually for music. Computer software that can create sounds or...
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Kurzweil K2000 (category Digital synthesizers)
The Kurzweil K2000 is a digital synthesizer and music workstation produced by Kurzweil Music Systems between 1991 and 2000 in a variety of standard configurations...
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