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How to use synthesizer in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Synthesizer means an electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard. Example: “My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.”

More sentences with synthesizer

  • My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.From the entry drop
  • Here is the “Hello World!” of MIDI, a program to send MIDI notes to a synthesizer.2007, Tom Igoe, Making Things Talk: Projects and Ideas to Create Talking Objects from Anything (Make: Projects), Sebastopol, Calif.…. From the entry Hello World!
  • The use of the synthesizer for emulation was, as I have said, rejected by many early synthesists.2006, Evan Selinger, Postphenomenology: a critical companion to Ihde, page 61. From the entry synthesist
  • A synthesizer comes with controls to store patches and edit them.1988 November 28, “MIDI: Computers and Music”, in U-M Computing News, volume 3, number 21, The University of Michigan Computing Center…. From the entry patch
  • Some high-end synthesizers even have floppy disks for additional patch storage.1988 November 28, “MIDI: Computers and Music”, in U-M Computing News, volume 3, number 21, The University of Michigan Computing Center…. From the entry patch
  • He adds drums, other percussion, and synthesizer.2018, David Sheff, Beautiful Boy. From the entry pluckage
  • It combines the hard beats of rap music, or “traditional” hip-hop, with the synthesizers and Latin percussion of seventies disco.1988 January 11, John Leland, “Latin hip-hop: The Beat Goes On”, in New York Magazine, page 18. From the entry Latin hip-hop
  • Naimro’s keyboards could sound like zinging dance-club synthesizers, an accordion, a steel drum or the clarinet used in old Martinican biguine music.2007 August 2, Jon Pareles, “A Wide Range of Sounds, From Antillean to Zouk”, in New York Times. From the entry biguine
  • This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek.p. 1996, Together with English Core, fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd.), page 234. From the entry dalek
  • After normalization (expanding abbreviation, numerals, etc.) the input text needs to be converted to a sequence of phonemes which is then used to control a speech synthesizer.2008 January 20, Maximilian Bisani and Hermann Ney, “Joint-sequence models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion”, in Speech Communication…. From the entry grapheme-to-phoneme
  • He is the scientist, not as particularizer and detailist, but as the forceful synthesizer of a truly vast amount of apparently unrelated objects, events, and structures.1996, Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman, Race and Other Misadventures, →ISBN. From the entry detailist
  • The Baltimore partymeister Dan Deacon has become an underground celebrity playing the kind of music Max Headroom might have made, with low-tech synthesizers pumping manic, smarmy melodies at high volume.2007 July 6, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry partymeister

Meaning of synthesizer

  1. noun An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.
  2. noun An electronic instrument consisting of a module, or a set of modules, that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
  3. noun An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.

Full definition of synthesizer

Questions about synthesizer in a sentence

How do you use synthesizer in a sentence?
Synthesizer is used as a noun. For example: “My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.”
What is a short sentence with synthesizer?
“He adds drums, other percussion, and synthesizer.”
What does synthesizer mean?
Synthesizer means an electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.

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