0 an electronic keyboard instrument that can produce and combine a large range of recorded sounds, often in order to copy other musical instruments or voices --
1 an electronic instrument used to reproduce, combine, and vary sounds, esp. of musical instruments or voices --
This is joined by a slowly ascending pitch on the synthesizer at measure five, but no other instruments enter until measure sixteen.
Synthesizers must therefore smoothly interpolate parameters between frames, and in many cases the analysis must make assumptions about how the synthesizer will interpolate.
So once a player's synthesizer is finished with a gesture, it sounds a quiet 'after-ring' until the user's next gesture begins.
These examples demonstrate some aspects that seem important to music performance and hence also to the construction of synthesizers and to audio processing.
The words were read by a speech synthesizer in random order in immediate succession, without pauses or any other prosodic cues.
Also, no synthesizer to date comes close to rendering a piece of instrumental music with the 'feeling' of an accomplished musician.
In the case of synthesizers, performer-controlled intonation seems indicated.
In practice samplers are distinguished from other wavetable synthesizers in the way the original samples are generated and played back.
