Tips and Tricks for Choosing an Electronic Music Synthesizer
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A synthesizer for electronic music is a device equipped with oscillators with sawtooth, sine, or square waves, the waves being further transformed by envelopes and all kinds of filters. Such a musical instrument allows you to play the most incredible sounds in timbre, change them beyond recognition, as well as to create a sound almost from scratch. Of course, electronic music can also be broken with virtual instruments together with DAW, but the “iron synth” makes it brighter and richer, even more unique.
If you buy a synthesizer for home creation, you are unlikely to buy an expensive model with lots of extra features and complicated navigation. But even among the budget “synths” there is a good choice, and you only have to decide what type your new instrument will be.
Electronic synthesizers come in monophonic, paraphonic and polyphonic, the instruments of the first kind are single-voice, mono-processed. Paraphonic synthesizer implies simultaneous sound of two voices, but can also work in mono-mode, polyphonic “synth” supports multi-voice polyphony (3-note and above), is the most common among such instruments.
According to the method of sound processing synthesizers are divided into digital, analog and hybrid, and they do not always have a keyboard, and even more so acoustic system.
The model without a keyboard is also called a synthesizer module, such a device has a very compact size and light weight, is able to work with a variety of midi-keyboards, easily controlled by a computer.
The most popular synthesizers for electronic music are produced under the brands Roland, Arturia, Dave Smith, Korg, Clavia Nord, Moog, equipped with a step-by-step multitrack sequencer, arpeggiator, many models are supplemented by special software, with which the work becomes convenient and comfortable, especially if you use a computer.
Rack synthesizers and modules are made in a housing that allows you to install the musical instrument in a rack, such devices are popular among professional musicians.
Synthesizers for electronic music are quite specific and cannot be used as an arranging station, a synthesizer with auto accompaniment or a digital piano.
