synthesizer
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈsɪnθəˌzaɪzər/
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sintetizador
- The composer played a beautiful melody on his new synthesizer during the concert.
- synthesizers and samplers
- synthesizer keyboard
- synthesizer with MIDI
I think it's just a little synthesizer from Eno.
- I think it's just a little synthesizer from Eno.
- It was kind of too late for Moog synthesizers.
- But basically to make the whole track, I essentially created a synthesizer patch from sculpture.
- Then the atom is processing and your synthesizer is processing at a slightly different frequency.
Examples
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Another firm with multi-planet outlets and a load of old-fashioned synthesizers in a warehouse within shipping distance.
Fiction book (1992) -
There are a number of resources available to teachers interested in using synthesizers in their classrooms.
Academic text (1993) -
Around that same time, my favorite synthesizer company announced their next synthesizer.
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It's got like this synthesizer thing going on here, which really sounds very odd.
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The text file will feed your voice synthesizer.
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This is a a colour synthesizer made with four different components.
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I recognise some of the components - a voice synthesizer, vocabulary bank.
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These days, though, a voice synthesizer can be made very much better by doing all those functions but doing them electronically.
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Jackie Wiggins explains and offers practical advice on how synthesizers can be integrated into the elementary music curriculum.
Academic text (1993) -
Also here under Audio, we've got loads and loads of synthesizers, drum kits, things like that, all sitting there waiting to be used.
Synonyms
184
1.9
An object like a piano or violin that makes musical sounds
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2.3
A thing like a piano or guitar that you play to make music
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4.8
An electronic keyboard that makes different musical sounds
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4.2
A musical instrument that makes sound using electricity
A device that makes musical sounds using electricity, like a synthesizer or keyboard
A musical machine with keys you press to make notes, like a piano or organ
Compounds
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Morphology
synthesizer = synthesize (transparent) = synthesize + er
Formed by the verb 'synthesize' plus the instrument/agent suffix '-er', so learners can infer 'a device that synthesizes sounds'.
Etymology
Synthesizer comes from synthesis, meaning 'putting together', and from synthesize, 'to make by joining parts'. So a synthesizer is a machine that 'puts sounds together' to make new tones or to copy other instruments.