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273 relations: A Clockwork Orange (film), A-ha, ABBA, Additive synthesis, African-American music, American Federation of Musicians, Amplitude, Analog revival, Analog synthesizer, Analytic signal, Apocalypse Now, Apollo 11, Are "Friends" Electric?, ARP 2600, ARP Instruments, ARP Odyssey, Arpeggio, Art rock, Articulation (music), Arturia, Attenuation, Attenuator (electronics), Audio bit depth, Audio filter, Audio frequency, Audio signal, Avant-garde, Band-pass filter, Band-stop filter, Baroque music, Barry Manilow, BBC, BBC News, Behringer, Billboard (magazine), Billy Ocean, Brad Fiedel, Brian Eno, Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments, Cars (song), Casio CZ synthesizers, Celine Dion, Chicago (band), Chord (music), Chorus (audio effect), Clavioline, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center (album), Computer music, Copyright law of the United States, ... Expand index (223 more) »
- Electric and electronic keyboard instruments
- Hip hop production
- New wave music
- Rhythm section
A Clockwork Orange (film)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.
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A-ha
A-ha (often stylised as a-ha) is a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982.
ABBA
ABBA are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
Additive synthesis
Additive synthesis is a sound synthesis technique that creates timbre by adding sine waves together.
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African-American music
African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture.
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American Federation of Musicians
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/AFofM) is a 501(c)(5) labor union representing professional instrumental musicians in the United States and Canada.
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Amplitude
The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change in a single period (such as time or spatial period).
Analog revival
The analog revival is a period in synthesizer history when analog synthesizers returned to commercial production and popular usage.
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Analog synthesizer
An analog synthesizer (analogue synthesiser) is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.
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Analytic signal
In mathematics and signal processing, an analytic signal is a complex-valued function that has no negative frequency components.
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
Are "Friends" Electric?
"Are 'Friends' Electric?" is a 1979 song by the English band Tubeway Army.
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ARP 2600
The ARP 2600 is a subtractive synthesizer first produced by ARP Instruments, Inc in 1971.
ARP Instruments
ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969.
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ARP Odyssey
The ARP Odyssey is an analog synthesizer introduced by ARP Instruments in 1972.
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Arpeggio
An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order.
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.
Articulation (music)
Articulation is a musical parameter that determines how a single note or other discrete event is sounded.
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Arturia
Arturia is a French electronics company founded in 1999 and based in Grenoble, France.
Attenuation
In physics, attenuation (in some contexts, extinction) is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium.
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Attenuator (electronics)
An attenuator is an electronic device that reduces the power of a signal without appreciably distorting its waveform.
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Audio bit depth
In digital audio using pulse-code modulation (PCM), bit depth is the number of bits of information in each sample, and it directly corresponds to the resolution of each sample.
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Audio filter
An audio filter is a frequency dependent circuit, working in the audio frequency range, 0 Hz to 20 kHz.
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Audio frequency
An audio frequency or audible frequency (AF) is a periodic vibration whose frequency is audible to the average human.
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Audio signal
An audio signal is a representation of sound, typically using either a changing level of electrical voltage for analog signals, or a series of binary numbers for digital signals.
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Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
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Band-pass filter
A band-pass filter or bandpass filter (BPF) is a device that passes frequencies within a certain range and rejects (attenuates) frequencies outside that range.
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Band-stop filter
In signal processing, a band-stop filter or band-rejection filter is a filter that passes most frequencies unaltered, but attenuates those in a specific range to very low levels.
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Baroque music
Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Behringer
Behringer is an audio equipment company founded by the Swiss engineer Uli Behringer on 25 January 1989 in Willich, Germany.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billy Ocean
Leslie Sebastian Charles (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-born British singer and songwriter.
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Brad Fiedel
Bradley Ira Fiedel (born August 10, 1951) is an American composer.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.
Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments
Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments (BEMI) was a manufacturer of synthesizers and unique MIDI controllers.
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Cars (song)
"Cars" is the first solo single by English musician Gary Numan.
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Casio CZ synthesizers
The CZ series is a family of low-cost phase distortion synthesizers produced by Casio in the mid-1980s.
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Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.
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Chicago (band)
Chicago is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1967.
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Chord (music)
In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.
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Chorus (audio effect)
Chorus (or chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) is an audio effect that occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches, converge.
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Clavioline
The clavioline is an electronic analog synthesizer. Synthesizer and clavioline are electric and electronic keyboard instruments.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
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Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center (album)
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was an album of electronic music released in 1964.
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Computer music
Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.
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Copyright law of the United States
The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship".
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Counterculture of the 1960s
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century.
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CV/gate
CV/gate (an abbreviation of control voltage/gate) is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines, and similar equipment with external sequencers. Synthesizer and CV/gate are synthesizers.
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
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Delay (audio effect)
Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time.
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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.
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Digital recording
In digital recording, an audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or chroma and luminance values for video.
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Digital synthesizer
A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. Synthesizer and digital synthesizer are synthesizers.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
Don Buchla
Donald Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis.
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Don't You Want Me
"Don't You Want Me" is a song by British synth-pop group the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100).
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Drum kit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. Synthesizer and drum kit are rhythm section.
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.
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E-mu Emulator
The Emulator is a series of digital sampling synthesizers using floppy-disk storage that was manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1981 until 2002.
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Effects unit
An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Electronic drum
Electronic drums are a modern electronic musical instrument, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit. Synthesizer and electronic drum are hip hop production, rhythm section and synthesizers.
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Electronic keyboard
An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. Synthesizer and electronic keyboard are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electronic Music Studios
Electronic Music Studios (EMS) is a synthesizer company formed in Putney, London in 1969 by Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockerell.
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Electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.
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Electronic Musician
Electronic Musician is a monthly magazine published by Future US featuring articles on synthesizers, music production and electronic musicians.
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Electronic oscillator
An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating or alternating current (AC) signal, usually a sine wave, square wave or a triangle wave, powered by a direct current (DC) source.
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Electronic sackbut
The electronic sackbut is an electronic musical instrument designed and first built by Hugh Le Caine in 1945.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.
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Enola Gay (song)
"Enola Gay" is an anti-war song by the English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the only single taken from their second studio album Organisation (1980).
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Envelope (music)
In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.
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Envelope detector
An envelope detector (sometimes called a peak detector) is an electronic circuit that takes a (relatively) high-frequency signal as input and outputs the envelope of the original signal.
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Eurorack
Eurorack is a modular synthesizer format originally specified in 1995 by Doepfer Musikelektronik.
Everyday Practical Electronics
Practical Electronics (previously known as Everyday Practical Electronics) is a UK-published magazine that is available in print or downloadable format.
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Fact (UK magazine)
Fact is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.
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Fairlight CMI
The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight.
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Frequency modulation synthesis
Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator.
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Future plc
Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.
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Gain (electronics)
In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a two-port circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output port by adding energy converted from some power supply to the signal.
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Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician.
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George Clinton (funk musician)
George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and bandleader.
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Giorgio Moroder
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer.
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Glissando
In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another.
Granular synthesis
Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale.
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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.
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Guitar synthesizer
A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities. Synthesizer and guitar synthesizer are synthesizers.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Synthesizer and Hammond organ are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and rhythm section.
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Harry F. Olson
Dr Harry Ferdinand Olson, E.E., Ph.D. (December 28, 1901 – April 1, 1982) was a prominent engineer and inventor with RCA Victor, the Acoustic Research Director of RCA Laboratories, Princeton, and a pioneer in the field of 20th century acoustical engineering notably in the fields of high-fidelity, digital music synthesis, microphones, loudspeakers, acoustics, radar, submarine communication, magnetic tape and noise reduction.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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High-pass filter
A high-pass filter (HPF) is an electronic filter that passes signals with a frequency higher than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
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Hugh Le Caine
Hugh Le Caine (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Isao Tomita
, often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.
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Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz (December 10, 1987) was a Jewish-Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.
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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor.
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John Chowning
John M. Chowning (born August 22, 1934, in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1975 and his development of the digital implementation of FM synthesis and the digital sound spatialization while there.
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John Foxx
John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh; 26 September 1948) is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer.
Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode song)
"Just Can't Get Enough" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode.
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Kate Bush
Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer.
Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 194411 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer.
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Kenny Loggins
Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter.
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Keyboard bass
Keyboard bass (shortened to keybass and sometimes referred as a synth bass) is the use of a smaller, low-pitched keyboard with fewer notes than a regular keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the deep notes of a bass guitar or double bass in music. Synthesizer and keyboard bass are bass (sound), electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Keyboard expression
Keyboard expression is the ability of a keyboard musical instrument to change tone or other qualities of the sound in response to velocity, pressure or other variations in how the performer depresses the keys of the musical keyboard. Synthesizer and keyboard expression are keyboard instruments.
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Keytar
Keytar (a portmanteau of keyboard and guitar) is a keyboard instrument similar to a synthesizer or MIDI controller that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is held. Synthesizer and Keytar are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.
Kitarō
, born (February 4, 1953), is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new-age music.
Knight Rider (1982 TV series)
Knight Rider is an American action crime drama television series created and produced by Glen A. Larson.
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Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang is an American R&B, soul, and funk group formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.
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Korg
, founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners.
Korg M1
The Korg M1 is a synthesizer and music workstation manufactured by Korg from 1988 to 1995.
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
Krautrock
Krautrock (also called, German for) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
List of synthesizer manufacturers
Notable synthesizer manufacturers past and present include.
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List of synthesizers
The following is a list of notable synthesizers. Synthesizer and list of synthesizers are electric and electronic keyboard instruments, keyboard instruments and synthesizers.
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Loop (music)
In music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.
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Low-frequency oscillation
Low-frequency oscillation (LFO) is an electronic frequency that is usually below 20 Hz and creates a rhythmic pulse or sweep.
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Low-pass filter
A low-pass filter is a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a selected cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.
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Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Mackie
Mackie is an American professional audio products brand.
Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 American thriller film directed and written by Michael Mann.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.
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Microtone (music)
Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".
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MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
MIDI controller
A MIDI controller is any hardware or software that generates and transmits Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data to MIDI-enabled devices, typically to trigger sounds and control parameters of an electronic music performance.
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Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher.
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Minimoog
The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.
Modular synthesizer
Modular synthesizers are synthesizers composed of separate modules for different functions.
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Moog synthesizer
The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964.
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Mort Garson
Morton Sanford Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music.
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Motion controller
In computing, a motion controller is a type of input device that uses accelerometers, gyroscopes, cameras, or other sensors to track motion.
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Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
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Music workstation
A music workstation is an electronic musical instrument providing the facilities of.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Synthesizer and musical keyboard are electric and electronic keyboard instruments and keyboard instruments.
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Musicians' Union (United Kingdom)
The Musicians' Union (MU) is an organisation which represents over 30,000 musicians working in all sectors of the British music business.
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Native Instruments
Native Instruments is a German company that develops, manufactures, and supplies music software and hardware for music production, sound design, performance, and DJing.
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Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates, 8 June 1962) is an English keyboardist and producer, best known as a founding member and the keyboardist of the band Duran Duran.
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Noise generator
A noise generator is a circuit that produces electrical noise (i.e., a random signal).
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Novachord
The Novachord is an electronic musical instrument often considered the world's first commercial polyphonic synthesizer.
Oberheim OB-X
The Oberheim OB-X was the first of Oberheim's OB-series polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizers.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
Ondes Martenot
The ondes Martenot ("Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument. Synthesizer and ondes Martenot are keyboard instruments.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in the Wirral, Merseyside, in 1978.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Patch cable
A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.
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Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.
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Phase distortion synthesis
Phase distortion (PD) synthesis is a synthesis method introduced in 1984 by Casio in its CZ range of synthesizers.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.
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Physical modelling synthesis
Physical modelling synthesis refers to sound synthesis methods in which the waveform of the sound to be generated is computed using a mathematical model, a set of equations and algorithms to simulate a physical source of sound, usually a musical instrument.
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.
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Plug-in (computing)
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.
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Polyphony and monophony in instruments
Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously. Synthesizer and Polyphony and monophony in instruments are synthesizers.
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Preamplifier
A preamplifier, also known as a preamp, is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker.
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Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit.
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Programming (music)
Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
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Prophet-5
The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential.
Psychedelia
Psychedelia usually refers to a style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances.
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Pulse wave
A pulse wave or pulse train or rectangular wave is a non-sinusoidal waveform that is the periodic version of the rectangular function.
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Punched card
A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes.
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Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).
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R2-D2
R2-D2 or Artoo-Detoo is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas.
Rave
A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music.
RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (nicknamed Victor) was the first programmable electronic synthesizer and the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
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Reason (software)
Reason is a digital audio workstation and audio plug-in developed by the Swedish company Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software) for macOS and Windows.
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Reason Studios
Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software) is a music software company, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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ReBirth RB-338
ReBirth RB-338 is a software synthesizer for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 8-9 and iOS for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
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Red Bull Music Academy
The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH.
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Reverb effect
A reverb effect, or reverb, is an audio effect applied to a sound signal to simulate reverberation.
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Ribbon controller
A ribbon controller is a tactile sensor used to control synthesizers.
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Robert Moog
Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer.
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Roland D-50
The Roland D-50 is a synthesizer produced by Roland and released in April of 1987.
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Roland Jupiter-4
The Roland Jupiter-4 (JP-4) was an analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1978 and 1981.
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Roland Jupiter-8
The Jupiter-8, or JP-8, is an eight-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in early 1981.
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Roland SH-101
The Roland SH-101 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1982 and 1986.
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Roland TB-303
The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981.
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Roland TR-808
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983. Synthesizer and Roland TR-808 are hip hop production.
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Roland TR-909
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 909, is a drum machine introduced by Roland Corporation in 1983, succeeding the TR-808. Synthesizer and Roland TR-909 are hip hop production.
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Sample-based synthesis
Sample-based synthesis is a form of audio synthesis that can be contrasted to either subtractive synthesis or additive synthesis.
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Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings). Synthesizer and sampler (musical instrument) are hip hop production.
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. Synthesizer and sampling (music) are hip hop production.
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Sawtooth wave
The sawtooth wave (or saw wave) is a kind of non-sinusoidal waveform.
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Second Summer of Love
The Second Summer of Love was a late-1980s social phenomenon in the United Kingdom which saw the rise of acid house music and unlicensed rave parties.
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Seer Systems
Seer Systems developed the world's first commercial software synthesizer in the early 1990s.
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Sentimental ballad
A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.
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Sequential (company)
Sequential is an American synthesizer company founded in 1974 as Sequential Circuits by Dave Smith.
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Session musician
A session musician (also known as studio musician or backing musician) is a musician hired to perform in a recording session or a live performance.
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Silent film
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).
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Sine wave
A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric sine function.
Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
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Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s.
Software synthesizer
A software synthesizer or softsynth is a computer program that generates digital audio, usually for music.
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Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
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Sound on Sound
Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.
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Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.
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Stab (music)
In music, a stab is a single staccato note or chord that adds dramatic punctuation to a composition.
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Standardization
Standardization (American English) or standardisation (British English) is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Star Wars (film)
Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
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Steinberg Cubase
Cubase is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music and MIDI recording, arranging and editing.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
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Stranger Things
Stranger Things is an American horror television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix.
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String synthesizer
A string synthesizer or string machine is a specialized synthesizer designed specifically to make sounds similar to that of a string orchestra. Synthesizer and string synthesizer are synthesizers.
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Subtractive synthesis
Subtractive synthesis is a method of sound synthesis in which overtones of an audio signal are attenuated by a filter to alter the timbre of the sound.
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Sun Ra
Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
Surface-mount technology
Surface-mount technology (SMT), originally called planar mounting, is a method in which the electrical components are mounted directly onto the surface of a printed circuit board (PCB).
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Switched-On Bach
Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released in October 1968 by Columbia Records.
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Synclavier
The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont.
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Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.
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Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).
Telharmonium
The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone) was an early electrical organ, developed by Thaddeus Cahill c. 1896 and patented in 1897.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 American independent supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Human League
The Human League is an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, written by Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and produced by Hurd.
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The Terminator (soundtrack)
The Terminator: Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack album by Brad Fiedel, composed and performed on synthesizer for the 1984 film The Terminator.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Theremin
The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/ thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist).
Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
Tom Oberheim
Thomas Elroy Oberheim (born July 7, 1936, Manhattan, Kansas), known as Tom Oberheim, is an American audio engineer and electronics engineer best known for designing effects processors, analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines.
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Touchscreen
A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.
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Transient (acoustics)
In acoustics and audio, a transient is a high amplitude, short-duration sound at the beginning of a waveform that occurs in phenomena such as musical sounds, noises or speech.
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Trautonium
The Trautonium is an electronic synthesizer invented in 1930 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin at the Musikhochschule's music and radio lab, the Rundfunkversuchstelle. Synthesizer and Trautonium are synthesizers.
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Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American mystery drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch.
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Ultravox
Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily.
University of Salford
The University of Salford is a public research university in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, west of Manchester city centre.
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USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.
Vacuum tube
A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
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Variable-gain amplifier
A variable-gain (VGA) or voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA) is an electronic amplifier that varies its gain depending on a control voltage (often abbreviated CV).
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Vector synthesis
Vector Synthesis is a type of audio synthesis introduced by Sequential Circuits in the Prophet VS synthesizer during 1986.
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Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.
Vocaloid
is a singing voice synthesizer software product.
Vogue (Madonna song)
"Vogue" is a song by American singer Madonna from her soundtrack album I'm Breathless (1990).
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Voltage
Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.
Voltage-controlled filter
A voltage-controlled filter (VCF) is an electronic filter whose operating characteristics (primarily cutoff frequency) can be set by an input control voltage.
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Voltage-controlled oscillator
A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is an electronic oscillator whose oscillation frequency is controlled by a voltage input.
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Walter Sear
Walter Edmond Sear (27 April 1930 – 29 April 2010) was an American recording engineer, musician, instrument importer and designer, inventor, composer and film producer.
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Waveform
In electronics, acoustics, and related fields, the waveform of a signal is the shape of its graph as a function of time, independent of its time and magnitude scales and of any displacement in time.
Wavetable synthesis
Wavetable synthesis is a sound synthesis technique used to create quasi-periodic waveforms often used in the production of musical tones or notes.
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Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist.
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Wind controller
A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a wind synthesizer, is an electronic wind instrument. Synthesizer and wind controller are synthesizers.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
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Yamaha DX7
The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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Zapp (band)
Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band, Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, United States, in 1977.
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3D sound synthesis
3D sound is most commonly defined as the daily human experience of sounds.
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See also
Electric and electronic keyboard instruments
- 12 Step foot controller
- Arcadetar
- AvantGrand
- Bass pedals
- Birotron
- Cembalet
- Chamberlin
- Clavinet
- Clavioline
- Clonewheel organ
- Continuum Fingerboard
- Curtis Organ
- Digital accordion
- Digital piano
- Dodeka keyboard
- Electone
- Electronic keyboard
- Electronic piano
- Ensoniq EPS
- Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus
- Hammond organ
- Keyboard bass
- Keytar
- List of synthesizers
- MIDI keyboard
- Mellotron
- Moog synthesizers
- Multimonica
- Musical keyboard
- Open-Architecture-System
- Optigan
- Pedal keyboard
- Rocky Mount Instruments
- Seiko DS-250
- Stage piano
- Synthesizer
- Tonewheel
Hip hop production
- Akai MPC
- Beatboxing
- Boom bap
- Boss SP-202
- Boss SP-303
- Boss SP-505
- Break (music)
- CDJ
- DJing
- Disc jockey
- E-mu SP-1200
- Electronic drum
- Hip hop production
- Phonograph
- Phonograph record
- Pitch control
- Rapping
- Roland DJ-70
- Roland MS-1
- Roland SP-404
- Roland SP-555
- Roland SP-606
- Roland SP-808
- Roland TR-808
- Roland TR-909
- Sampledelia
- Sampler (musical instrument)
- Sampling (music)
- Scratching
- Synthesizer
- Technics SL-1200
- Turntablism
New wave music
- 2 tone
- 40 Watt Club
- 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave
- Batcave (club)
- Blitz Kids
- CBGB
- Club Babyhead
- Cold wave (music)
- Dark wave
- Heatwave (festival)
- Kino discography
- Lost 80's Live
- Metropolis Video
- Minimal wave
- Mod revival
- Neo (nightclub)
- Neue Deutsche Welle
- New Romantic
- New Wave Theatre
- New York Rocker
- New wave music
- New wave music in Yugoslavia
- New wave of new wave
- O'Banion's
- Second British Invasion
- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (film)
- Sophisti-pop
- Synthesizer
- The Roxy (Covent Garden)
- Two-tone (music genre)
Rhythm section
- Accompaniment
- Acoustic guitar
- Alternate bass
- Backline (stage)
- Bass guitar
- Bassline
- Bateria
- Comping (jazz)
- Contrabass guitar
- Digital accordion
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Electric sitar
- Electronic drum
- Guitar
- Hammond organ
- Heavy metal drumming
- Jazz bass
- Jazz chord
- Nashville Number System
- Offstage musicians and singers in popular music
- Oom-pah
- Open chord
- Piano
- Rhythm section
- Steel-string acoustic guitar
- String instrument
- Synthesizer
- Tambourine
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