Digital synthesizer - Digital synthesizer A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. The very earliest digital synthesis experiments were made with general-purpose computers, as part of academic research into sound generation. Early commercial digital synthesizers used simple hard-wired digital circuitry to implement techniques such as additive synthesis and FM synthesis. Other techniques, such as wavetable synthesis and physical modeling, only became possible with the advent of high-speed microprocessor and digital signal processing technology. One of the earliest commercial digital synthesizers was the Synclavier. Some digital synthesizers now exist in the form of "softsynth" software that synthesizes sound using conventional PC hardware, though they require careful programming and a fast CPU to get the same latency response as their dedicated.
Software synthesizer - Software synthesizer A software synthesizer or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. It works like a common synthesizer, but is realized entirely in software. A software synthesizer will typically respond to MIDI calls like a normal synthesizer module. Popular software synthesizers Absynth FruityLoops Kontakt Reaktor Reason ReBirth FluidSynth See also Pure Data VST Instruments MAIA and LADSPA for Linux.
Synthesizer - Synthesizer The term "synthesiser" is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. This article is about the musical instrument. A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce artificially generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM and physical modelling synthesis to create sounds. Synthesizers create sounds through direct manipulation of electrical currents (as in analog synthesizers), mathematical manipulation of discrete values using computers (as in software synthesizers), or by a combination of both methods. In the final stage of the synthesizer, electrical currents are used to cause vibrations in the diaphragms of loudspeakers, headphones, etc. This synthesized sound is contrasted with recording of natural sound, where the mechanical energy of a sound wave is transformed into a signal.
New England Digital - New England Digital New England Digital (1971 - 1992), based in White River Junction, Vermont, was best known for its signature product, the Synclavier System. Originally developed as the "Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer" by Dartmouth College professor Jon Appleton, in association with NED founders Cameron Jones and Sydney J. Alonso, the Synclavier was one of the most advanced electronic synthesis and recording tools of the day. The system was nearly as famous for where it was not used, as it was for the list of premier studios in which it was -- the extremely sophisticated synthesizer enjoyed the distinction of being banned from many famous concert halls, out of fear that it would obsolete the musicians themselves. The mature Synclavier was a modular, component-based system that included facilities for.
Korg - Korg Korg is a manufacturer of electronic analog and digital music synthesizers, among other products. Examples of the its products are the Poly-800 II, M1, and Wavestation. The M1, a wavetable-based multitimbral polyphonic synthesizer with on-board digital effects, appeared in the late 1980s and became very popular with both amateur and professional musicians due to its low cost and high sound quality. Their dynamic effects controller, the Kaoss Pad, has been a big hit with DJs, who can use it to apply and edit a variety of effects on any sound source in real time. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Gothic rock - Synths usually have the above listed guitar attributes, and are generally based on a 'Strings' type of synth patch with a 25% attack rate. Invariably the synths are analog. Song composition utilizes the 1-4-5 scalular progressions that typify rock & roll music, but are often augmented or dimminished. Minor key themes are prevalent, but major keys are not shunned. Composition is usually guitar oriented, and follows surf music-like vertical scales, rather than blues-like horizontal scales. Focal points are often on the two semitonal increments of the particular scale. Various octave fingerings are often substituted for chords. Playing style is generally all downstrokes, to create the 'sound'. This type of gothic rock requires a fairly capable musician, as it will often include modal scales in song construction. Additionally, finger picking & up/down.
Golden Age of Grotesque - Art)" "Tainted Love" "Tainted Love" is a bonus track, available on the British version of the album. Personnel Chuck Bailey - Assistant Engineer Tom Baker - Mastering Jon Blaine - Hair Stylist Blumpy - Digital Editing Jeff Burns - Assistant Ginger Fish - Drums, Rhythm Direction, Rhythm Direction Madonna Wayne Gacy - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Loops, Editing, Electronics, Melody Arrangement Ross Garfield - Drum Technician Ben Grosse - Producer, Engineer, Digital Editing, Mixing John5 - Guitar, Piano, Orchestration Marilyn Manson - Vocals, Producer Tim Skold - Bass, Guitar, Accordion, Keyboards, Producer, Loops, Artwork, Digital Editing, Drum Programming, Synthesizer Bass, Electronics, Beats Mark Williams - A&R.
YM2612 - a 6 channel FM synthesis (Frequency Modulation) sound synthesizer IC produced by Yamaha. It belongs to a family of Yamaha FM synthesizer chips, and can be considered an ancestor to the OPL2 (YM3812) and OPL3 (YMF262) FM ICs that were used in the popular AdLib and Creative Labs SoundBlaster PC soundcards. The YM2612 was notably used in the Sega Master System and Sega Megadrive game consoles and has the following features: Six concurrent FM channels (or voices) The sixth channel can be used as an FM or DAC channel (but not both) Four operators per channel Two timers A low frequency oscillator Stereo output Each channel may be assigned to either left, right or both (centre) of the stereo output. The special sixth channel can act as a DAC (Digital to.
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator - 2002. Supported formats include: A.M. Composer 1.2 AC1D Actionamics AHX Amos Music Bank AProSys Art and Magic Art of Noise Audiosculpture Beathoven Synthesizer Benn Daglish Bladepacker / Unique Development Channel Player 1, 2, 3 Chip Tracker (KRIS Tracker) Custom Made / Ron Klaren Customplay Darius Zendeh Dave Lowe (old and new) David Whittaker Delitracker custom songs Delta Music 1.0 and 2.0 Delta Packer 1.0 / Tronic Digibooster 1.x Digital Illusions Digital Mugician DSS Dynamic Synthesizer EarAche EMS EMS v6 Eureka Packer FC-M Packer FollinPlayer II ForgottenWorldPlayer (FWMP) Fredmonitor FredGray FuchsTracker Future Composer 1.3 / 1.4 FutureComposer (BSI) Fuzzac Packer Game Music Creator GlueMon GraveComposer HeatSeeker mc1.0 Hippel Hippel 7V Hippel-COSO Hornet Packer Howie Davies (HD) IceTracker/soundtracker 2.6 Images Music System Infogrames / Rob Hubbard 2 InStereo 1, 2.0 (IS, IS20) Janko.
Four Symbols - 4:54 "Rock and Roll" (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham) - 3:40 "The Battle of Evermore" (Page/Plant) - 5:51 "Stairway to Heaven" (Page/Plant) - 8:00 "Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones) - 4:38 "Four Sticks" (Page/Plant) - 4:44 "Going to California" (Page/Plant) - 3:31 "When the Levee Breaks" (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Minnie) - 7:07 Total album length: 42:38 minutes Personnel Jimmy Page - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, producer, remastering, digital remastering Robert Plant - Vocals, harmonica John Paul Jones - Synthesizer, bass guitar, keyboards John Bonham - Drums Sandy Denny - Vocals (Track 3) Peter Grant - Executive producer George Chkiantz - Mixing Andy Johns - Engineer, mixing George Marino - Digital remastering Graphreaks - Design coordinator Barrington Colby Mom - Inside illustration - The Hermit All songs produced by Jimmy Page Chart positions Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album.
Frequency modulation synthesis - dissonant and percussive sounds can easily be created. The technique was invented by John Chowning at Stanford University in the early 1970s, was patented in 1975 and was later licensed to Yamaha. FM synthesis is very good at creating 'clang', 'twang' or 'bong' noises. Complex FM synthesis using analog oscillators is not generally feasible due to their inherent pitch instability, but FM synthesis is easy to implement digitally. As a result, FM synthesis was the basis of some of the early generations of digital synthesizers from Yamaha, with Yamaha's flagship DX-7 synthesizer being ubiquitous throughout the 1980s. Casio, in order to avoid the FM patent, developed a related form of synthesis called phase distortion synthesis, used in its CZ101 line of synthesizers. With the expiration of the Stanford University FM patent.
Frankenchrist - Kennedys/East Bay Ray) 4:24 "MTV-Get off the Air" (Biafra/Dead Kennedys) 3:37 "At My Job" (Dead Kennedys/East Bay Ray) 3:40 "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" (Dead Kennedys) 6:25 Personnel Jello Biafra - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Mixing, Visual Concept Klaus Flouride - Bass, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr) Sweet - Vocals (bckgr) Wild Bill - Vocals (bckgr) Susan Caldwell - Vocals (bckgr) Kris Carleson - Vocals (bckgr) John Cuniberti - Engineer, Mixing, Digital Remastering Jeff Davis - Vocals (bckgr) Steve DePace - Vocals (bckgr) Danielle Dunlap - Vocals (bckgr) East Bay Ray - Synthesizer, Bouzouki, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), *Bellzouki, Digital Remastering Gary Floyd - Vocals (bckgr) Julie Hoffman - Vocals (bckgr) Tim Jones - Keyboards John Leib - Trumpet D.H. Lipat - Vocals (bckgr) Robyn Lutz - Vocals (bckgr) Microwave - Vocals (bckgr) Laura.
Electric guitar - guitarists tune their guitars lower to produce a "heavier" sound. Seven-string models exist, most of which add a low B string below the E, and were made popular by Steve Vai and modern day nu metal bands. Jimmy Page, an innovator of hard rock, used and made famous custom Gibson electric guitars with two necks - essentially two instruments in one. These are commonly known as double neck (or, less commonly, twin neck) guitars. The purpose is to obtain different ranges of sound from each instrument; typical combinations are six-string and four-string (guitar and bass guitar) or, more commonly, a six-string and twelve-string. English progressive rock bands such as Genesis took this trend to its zenith using custom made instruments produced by the Shergold company. Some electric guitars have a tremolo.
Drum and bass - around 160 - 180 beats per minute with the beats on the 1, 3, 6, 7 quaver (or half) beats, alternating between the kick and the snare. Drum and bass is also known as Jungle, a moniker stemming from a rough area in Kingston, Jamaica originally known as Concrete Jungle. It was likely named after this area due to the harshness or roughness of the beats and rhythm. By the mid-1990s, the term Jungle on the British scene had come to refer to a rougher, darker style of drum and bass influenced by the raggamuffin dance hall tradition and favouring ragga-style MCs, repetitive sampled drum loopss and distorted bass (rather than the melodic vocals, programmed drums and floaty synthesizer ambience common in so-called 'intelligent' drum and bass). Modern 'dark' drum and.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - #37 on the Pop Singles chart. In 1987 Parsons completely remixed the album for CD with some new instrumentation, and restored the narration by Orson Welles that had been recorded for the original album but not used. Consequently the original vinyl mix has never been heard in a digital format. Track listing A Dream Within a Dream [instrumental] - 3:43 The Raven - 4:01 The Tell-Tale Heart - 4:40 The Cask of Amontillado - 4:29 (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - 4:15 The Fall of the House of Usher: Prelude [instrumental] - 5:51 The Fall of the House of Usher: Arrival [instrumental] - 2:36 The Fall of the House of Usher: Intermezzo [instrumental] - 1:06 The Fall of the House of Usher: Pavane [instrumental] - 4:44 The Fall.
Akai - 1984 as a division of the company. The first product released by the new subsidiary, the S612 8-bit digital sampler, was the first in a series of affordable samplers. The S612 was superceded in 1986 with the introduction of the new professional range of digital samplers, starting with the 12-bit S900 and culminating in the 16-bit S3000, complete with writable CD-ROM and Hard Disk Recording. The new models were all available as rackmounted modules or as keyboard versions. Akai also produced several Digital MIDI sequencers and digital synthesizers such as the MPC range (MIDI Production Center), an integrated sampler/drum machine and MIDI sequencer, and the MPC3000, a 32-note polyphonyic, 16-bit digital synthesizer and sequencer..
Analog - non-US spelling) signal is any continuously variable signal. It differs from a digital signal in that small fluctuations in the signal are meaningful. Analog is usually thought of in an electrical context, however mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and other systems also use analog signals. An analog signal uses some property of the medium to convey the signal's information. For example an aneroid barometer uses rotary position as the signal to convey pressure information. Electrically, the property most commonly used is voltage followed closely by current and charge. Another method of conveying an analog signal is to use modulation. In this, some base signal (eg a sinusoidal carrier wave) has one of its properties altered: amplitude modulation involves altering the amplitude of a sinusoidal voltage waveform by the source information, frequency modulation changes.
ANAC - technician will call a local ANAC's phone number (in Connecticut, they would dial 970) this number connects to a computer at a local central office which uses a voice synthesizer or digital samples to "speak" the phone number of the line calling in. The main purpose of this system is to allow phone company technicians to identify which telephone line they are connected to. Because this system is meant for phone company technicians, the ANAC system works with unlisted and even numbers with caller ID blocking. Some ANACs are very regional or local in scope, while others are state or area code-wide. There appears to be no national cohesive system for them. Every telephone company (big or small) can determine its own ANAC for each individual central office, leading to a.
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Computer music - theory and mathematics. See also: Electronic music Electronic musical instrument Electronic musical effect Electronic dance music MIDI Digital synthesizer Music sequencer Musical theory Audio signal processing CSound Chip Tunes Computer generated music.
