synthesiser


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Synonyms for synthesiser

an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods

(music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments

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Annie Hart: "Aw, someone help him get Ant and Dec's voices for his synthesiser. And what a handsome young man he is."
The synthesiser matches sounds in the Mandarin language with the Roman spellings of the lyrics.
The arrival of the synthesiser came as just as the Beatles and other musicians started seeking ways to fuse psychedelic-drug experiences with their art.
The Beatles used a Moog synthesiser on their 1969 album, Abbey Road; a Moog was used to create an eerie sound on the soundtrack to the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.
Folds turned the incident into an excuse to improvise two songs about the night he came to Glasgow and mangled his synthesiser. Ben's back catalogue contains a smattering of minor hits, but it is as a songwriter of Sixties-influenced pop that 3000 fans are here to see him.
For years the computer has already aided synthesisers in editing and recording music, much akin to a word processor for sounds.
FRANZ Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos says the band used synthesisers on their new material because it matches a change in their fashion sense.
The lycra jacket contains sensors connected to a computer which plays synthesisers - if you conduct properly.