Synthesizer
noun
An electronic musical instrument that can produce many different kinds of sounds.
He used a synthesizer to create the background music for his song.
Often appears as...
- play synthesizer
- digital synthesizer
noun
A device that combines different things, such as signals or data, to make something new.
In computing, a synthesizer can help create a new signal from separate inputs.
Often appears as...
- signal synthesizer
- frequency synthesizer
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Technical
noun
A machine or software that generates human speech.
Speech synthesizer converts text into spoken voice
Often appears as...
- speech synthesizer
- text-to-speech synthesizer
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Technical
noun
A device in an aircraft used for navigation, by performing calculations based on inputs from speed, direction, and time.
The flight director used the synthesizer to calculate our estimated arrival time.
Often appears as...
- navigation synthesizer
- flight synthesizer
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Technical
noun
An electronic musical instrument that can produce many different kinds of sounds.
He used a synthesizer to create the background music for his song.
Often appears as...
- play synthesizer
- digital synthesizer
noun
A device that combines different things, such as signals or data, to make something new.
In computing, a synthesizer can help create a new signal from separate inputs.
Often appears as...
- signal synthesizer
- frequency synthesizer
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A machine or software that generates human speech.
Speech synthesizer converts text into spoken voice
Often appears as...
- speech synthesizer
- text-to-speech synthesizer
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device in an aircraft used for navigation, by performing calculations based on inputs from speed, direction, and time.
The flight director used the synthesizer to calculate our estimated arrival time.
Often appears as...
- navigation synthesizer
- flight synthesizer
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Genre Flexibility
Synthesizers are versatile and used in many music genres, from pop to techno.
Synthesizers are crucial in electronic music production.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Keyboards
While many synthesizers have keyboards, some are module-based, without keys.
He connected modules to his synthesizer for new sounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Sound Creation
Synthesizers can mimic other instruments or create entirely new sounds.
Her synthesizer perfectly imitated a grand piano.
Pro Tip 1/3Genre Flexibility
Synthesizers are versatile and used in many music genres, from pop to techno.
Synthesizers are crucial in electronic music production.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Keyboards
While many synthesizers have keyboards, some are module-based, without keys.
He connected modules to his synthesizer for new sounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Sound Creation
Synthesizers can mimic other instruments or create entirely new sounds.
Her synthesizer perfectly imitated a grand piano.
Pro Tip 1/3Genre Flexibility
Synthesizers are versatile and used in many music genres, from pop to techno.
Synthesizers are crucial in electronic music production.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Keyboards
While many synthesizers have keyboards, some are module-based, without keys.
He connected modules to his synthesizer for new sounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Sound Creation
Synthesizers can mimic other instruments or create entirely new sounds.
Her synthesizer perfectly imitated a grand piano.
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Paul Rothemund: The...
and that synthesizer will pack those molecules into a seed. And what happens if you water and feed that seed appropriately, is it will do a developmental computation, a molecular computation, and it'll build an electronic computer. And if I haven't revealed my prejudices already, I think that life has been about molecular computers
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It's time to question...
synthesizer which is a machine created an artificial genome put it in the cell and that of a different cell the genome was not of the cell he put it in and that cell then reproduced as the other cell in other words that was the first creature in the history of the world
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Paul Root Wolpe: It's...
So you may have thought that the creation of life was going to happen in something that looked like that. But in fact, that's not what Frankenstein's lab looks like. This is what Frankenstein's lab looks like. This is a DNA synthesizer, and here at the bottom
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Ron McCallum: How...
worked on building a machine that would scan books and read them out in synthetic speech. Optical character recognition units then only operated usually on one font, but by using charge-coupled device flatbed scanners and speech synthesizers,
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The mystery box PIPE JJ...
She was fantastic. So I found myself getting this stuff, thanks to her assist, and suddenly, you know, I had a synthesizer when I was 14 years old -- this kind of stuff. And it let me make things, which, to me, was sort of the dream.
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Paola Antonelli:...
And this lets me introduce a very important idea about designers are the biggest synthesizers in the world. What they do best is make a synthesis of human needs, current conditions in economy, in materials, in sustainability issues,
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How sampling transformed...
Daniel Feeling everything that's going on inside my body. Adam In your brain is this amazing musical computer. Using computers and synthesizers to create works. It's a language that's still evolving. And the 21st century.
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The call to learn PIPE...
This guy over here of course is me. This man is Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who passed away this past August. Robert Moog was a generous, kind person, extraordinarily competent engineer.
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Stephen Hawking on Space...
diagnosed in his 20s with a progressive motor neuron disease or Lou Gehrig's disease now he is almost entirely paralyzed and can only communicate using a speech synthesizer but when professor
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The polyphonic me PIPE...
So every noise you can hear there is my voice. I didn't just trigger something which sounds like that. There's no samples. There's no synthesizers.
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Paul Rothemund: The...
and that synthesizer will pack those molecules into a seed. And what happens if you water and feed that seed appropriately, is it will do a developmental computation, a molecular computation, and it'll build an electronic computer. And if I haven't revealed my prejudices already, I think that life has been about molecular computers
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It's time to question...
synthesizer which is a machine created an artificial genome put it in the cell and that of a different cell the genome was not of the cell he put it in and that cell then reproduced as the other cell in other words that was the first creature in the history of the world
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Paul Root Wolpe: It's...
So you may have thought that the creation of life was going to happen in something that looked like that. But in fact, that's not what Frankenstein's lab looks like. This is what Frankenstein's lab looks like. This is a DNA synthesizer, and here at the bottom
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Ron McCallum: How...
worked on building a machine that would scan books and read them out in synthetic speech. Optical character recognition units then only operated usually on one font, but by using charge-coupled device flatbed scanners and speech synthesizers,
Video examples
The mystery box PIPE JJ...
She was fantastic. So I found myself getting this stuff, thanks to her assist, and suddenly, you know, I had a synthesizer when I was 14 years old -- this kind of stuff. And it let me make things, which, to me, was sort of the dream.
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Paola Antonelli:...
And this lets me introduce a very important idea about designers are the biggest synthesizers in the world. What they do best is make a synthesis of human needs, current conditions in economy, in materials, in sustainability issues,
Video examples
How sampling transformed...
Daniel Feeling everything that's going on inside my body. Adam In your brain is this amazing musical computer. Using computers and synthesizers to create works. It's a language that's still evolving. And the 21st century.
Video examples
The call to learn PIPE...
This guy over here of course is me. This man is Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who passed away this past August. Robert Moog was a generous, kind person, extraordinarily competent engineer.
Video examples
Stephen Hawking on Space...
diagnosed in his 20s with a progressive motor neuron disease or Lou Gehrig's disease now he is almost entirely paralyzed and can only communicate using a speech synthesizer but when professor
Video examples
The polyphonic me PIPE...
So every noise you can hear there is my voice. I didn't just trigger something which sounds like that. There's no samples. There's no synthesizers.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.
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E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Andy Summers
English Musician
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
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Samuel Beckett
Irish Playwright
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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Dusty Hill
American Musician
People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.
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Ariel Rechtshaid
American Producer
I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.
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Charlie Haden
American Musician
Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
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Alexandre Desplat
French Composer
When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.
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Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American Artist
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.
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E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Quote examples
Andy Summers
English Musician
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
Quote examples
Samuel Beckett
Irish Playwright
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Quote examples
Dusty Hill
American Musician
People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.
Quote examples
Ariel Rechtshaid
American Producer
I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.
Quote examples
Charlie Haden
American Musician
Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
Quote examples
Alexandre Desplat
French Composer
When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.
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Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American Artist
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
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