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} A synthesizer looks an awful lot like a high tech piano if you are looking at one in a store. It is an instrument that uses many sound generators making wave forms that can be mixed into a wide variety of sound variables. Some of the technology organized into the synthesizers are sub harmonic synthesis. This allows for some of the really great base sounds that you hear in music today. There is also subtractive synthesis. Subtractive synthesis this was made popular by the moog synthesizers of the 1960’s and 70’s. In many cases it is responsible for some of the great string sounds you hear in music today. There is physical modeling synthesis, wavetable, frequency modulation, phase distortion, frequency modulation, granular, sample based and these are only a few of the technological applications inside of the modern synthesizers. Elisha Gray is responsible for the very first synthesizer in 1876. Synthesizers have many components. A good example of the components aboard a modern synthesizer would be ADSR envelopes. ADSR stand for Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release. These are things that are taking place when you hear an instrument of natural sound and the ADSR supplements for this in the synthesizer. There are filters that are controlled by the ADSR and those filters range from low pass filters, high pass filters and band pass filters. LFO is low frequency oscillator. This is an electronic signal that makes sound sweeps and pulses. Synthesizers are usually controlled from a keyboard type surface. There are more modern applications where the synthesizer can be controlled from guitars, drum pads and musical sequencers. If elisha Gray was here today he would be amazed at just how much his creation has influenced music in modern times. The synthesizer has truly revolutionized music recording, sound and performance. It is one of the marvels of modern music.
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Synthesizers |
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A synthesizer is an electric keyboard type instrument that looks a little like a portable electric piano. The big difference is that a synthesizer is capable of creating sounds that can't be found on any other instrument. Often they will come with pre-created sounds, but can also be had with a "clean slate". It is equipped with dials and knobs used for fine tuning the sounds. A few of the aspects are modulation, sustaining, delays,oscillating, and attack sounds. The older models weren't equipped for saving the sounds created, therefore the user had to keep meticulous notes of each dial and knob placement for creating the sound. In the 70's and 80's progressive rock bands were fond of using the synthesizer for the unique and unfamiliar sounds it gave their music. The downside was that the earlier equipment was not cross compatible with other devices, so therefore the "midi" synthesizer was born. It allowed synthesizers made by different companies to interact with each other, and the use of synthesizers in the music industry exploded. One of the most popular was one that was created by musician Bob Moog, appropriately called the Moog synthesizer. The companies Roland and Yamaha jumped on board and created a more affordable model. The synthesizer brought about what is called "electronic music'. |
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Voice synthesizer for telephone |
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A voice synthesizer has plenty of useful applications, mainly for the visually impaired. Visually impaired people rely on such apparatuses to use computers, to read books, to read actually any written message and to help them using other appliances. Such voice synthesizers have found application in the telephony, where voice modules can be used to record outgoing messages on answering machines. This precautionary measure was mainly used by single female phone owners, to dissuade people of making obscene phone calls. Such voice synthesizers can be used in many other applications, not only as answering devices, but also for even more practical uses. Currently life safety audio systems have voice synthesizers built in, where previously stored messages can be replayed by a text to speech device. Such text to speech devices have found applications in many telephony related outlets. For instance, many providers of information services, like telephone assistance, but also taxi and limo services, have such a voice synthesizer in order to ease the burden of employees. Once the inquiry is made and the number or the estimated arrival time of your cab is known, the voice synthesizer for telephone jumps in and provides the requested phone number, or the |
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Autotune voice synthesizer |
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Auto-Tune is actually an audio processor that can be used to tune already recorded or played vocals and instruments into the right pitch. Pitch correction by Auto-Tune was a trade secret up until Cher had a mega hit with "Believe" in 1998, where Auto-Tune was used to make Cher's voice sound strange and distorted. Currently up to 90 percent of all recording artists are using Auto-Tune to fine pitch their performances and many singing sensations of the last decade have to thank Antares Audio Technologies for their gadget, otherwise they would have no careers at all. Pitch shifting and harmonizers were known from before Auto-Tune was developed, but the technology that controls the corrected signal to be in tune, that still needed to be invented. It was none other than Andy Hildebrand, a seismic engineer working for Exxon, the oil company, who developed the technology in order to interpret seismic data. Later he recognized that it could be utilized to modify, analyze and detect pitch. He founded the Antares Audio Technologies in 1990 and released several ProTools plug-ins, one of which was Auto-Tune by 1997. While the plug-in became an instant success, the portable unit, the ATR-1 hardware DSP effect |
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Music synthesizer software |
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When the music recording world went digital, people were still using contemporary musical instruments and hardware synthesizers to create music. Despite the research and development of several companies to transfer at least the samplers into the computer environment and making thereby the large behemoths of the past obsolete, the solutions did not function as well, most of them missed an overall solution, a way in which they would not have to be separate from the recording program, some kind of standard. While the market leader Digidesign completely ignored the wishes of users and stuck to the Apple Macintosh platform, despite the increasingly bothersome incompatibility of hardware solutions with every new emerging operating system, the smartest of the smart, Steinberg introduced the VST solution and cracked the ProTools dominance with one strike. Steinberg introduces Cubase with the Virtual Studio Technology - VST in the nineties of the twentieth century, trying to compete with Digidesign's ProTools, which concentrated on professional users and ignored any other people that were interested. Interestingly enough the widespread popularity of Cubase came with a pirated copy of Cubase VST that was freed of copy protection and surprisingly stable. Every single wannabe musician and every single music professional |
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