Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Moog And Digital Synthesizers

By Charlie Michaels

Music is one of the most interesting forms of expression that exists in the world today. A musical synthesizer plays a major role in music recording to recreate instrument sounds and it is a far more superior musical instrument that is meant for the professional musician.

A synthesizer is an electronic device that can simulate various sounds by creating and mixing a combination of different frequencies. By this method, it can create thousands of unique mixes of sounds.

Entertainers who wish to insert the noise of a car horn in their act dont have to use a recording of a car horn. In its place, the noise can be made by merely turning on a switch. The synthesizer even makes several sounds at the same time, such as, for instance, a honking horn or a bird calling.

Elisha Gray invented the first known synthesizer sometime in the latter part of the 1800s. He is mostly renowned for some of his other work: the telegraph and one of the first forms of the telephone. Gray led the way in electronics and was a future thinker in many ways. Although his premiere device was thought to be a little elementary by todays values, it cleared the path for models we have today.

Robert Moog, a brilliant scientist with a doctorate in engineering physics, greatly improved upon the synthesizer in the mid 1900s. He spent his entire career developing electronic music devices and, for that, he is widely known today as the father of the modern synthesizer.

Moog's synthesizer was at the head of the line in using a piano keyboard to control it. Prototypes that came before had used switches, dials and buttons. For that reason, they are compared to the pianos and electronic keyboards produced now. But they can be controlled by other methods. One example of that is a Guitar synthesizer.

With the invention of technology, early synthesizers were replaced by modern synthesizer. In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s the voltage-controlled analogue synthesizer was standard. They were huge and occupied enough space. Now the digital synthesizer is being used which is a highly sophisticated instrument that can be transported easily and thus not occupy enough space.

A keyboard synthesizer is a piano alternative that creates sound through electrical currents which is still common among musicians. A software synthesizer, common among musicians, also known as a softsynth or virtual instrument is a computer program for digit audio generation. Saxophone-style synthesizer is also being used.

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