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Keyboard music synthesizer |
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Synthesizers were created as electronic instruments that have piano like keyboards and which produce a multitude of sounds through various combinations of generated and manipulated signals featuring a variety of frequencies. The signals created are of electrical or digital nature, not directly originated acoustic and mechanically created sounds, like a piano or church organ. There is usually an originating point, like an oscillator or a waveform or similar, that provides the signal that is then being manipulated through a multitude of sections or modules and finally being output to an amplifier, mixer, loudspeaker or the headphones. While most of the music synthesizers are outfitted and can be played by means of a keyboard, there were other solutions as well, like the Theremin, or the rack module was fed notes through a MIDI connection from a sequencer or computer. Keyboard music synthesizers entered the music world sometimes in the late sixties of the twentieth century, when Robert Moog and Don Buchla completely independently released the first modular synthesizers targeted at musicians and music artists. While previous synthesizers were huge, immovable machines, these modular behemoths were big, but nevertheless movable and possible to control by a savvy musician. The older synthesizers required |
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