Synthesizer

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  • noun. One that synthesizes.
  • noun. An electronic instrument, often played with a keyboard, that combines simple waveforms to produce more complex sounds, such as those of various other instruments.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In acoustics, an instrument for the production of complex tones of predetermined composition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard.
  • noun. An electronic instrument module that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
  • noun. An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
  • noun. An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments
  • noun. an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
  • Word Usage
    "It feels like a post including the Rutt-Etra synthesizer is incomplete without a mention of another amazing, early realtime video processor, the Daniel Sandin Image processor."
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