Synthesizers

thumb|Early Minimoog by R.A. Moog Inc. ()

modern electronic musical instrument

occurs in an electric circuit at a particular resonant frequency when the imaginary parts of impedances or admittances of circuit elements cancel each other

thumb|Mid-1970s Stylophone with simulated wood panel thumb|right|Stylophone being played with stylus

1983 digital FM synthesizer

thumb|300px|Telefunken Volkstrautonium, 1933 (Telefunken Trautonium Ela T 42 (1933–35)) a production version of the Trautonium co-developed by Telefunken, [[Friedrich Trautwein and Oskar Sala from 1931 onwards.]]

The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential. It was designed by Dave Smith and John Bowen in 1977. It was the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory.

digital synthesizer workstation

digital synthesizer by Korg

polyphonic 61-key synthesiser produced by Roland

optically controlled music instrument

digital signal generator creating a synchronous (clocked), discrete-time, discrete-valued representation of a waveform, usually sinusoidal

music instrument

Audio Wavetable Synthesizer

300px|thumb|The CV/gate interfaces of a ARP Odyssey|Korg ARP analogue synthesizer CV/gate (an abbreviation of control voltage/gate) is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines, and similar equipment with external sequencers. The control voltage typically controls pitch and the gate signal controls note on-off.

electronic musical instrument without a human-playable interface, operated using an externally connected device, e.g. a MIDI controller

control on a synthesizer to vary the pitch

workstation synthesizer

hybrid synthesizer

electronic wind instrument

Electronic musical instrument simulating the sound of a string ensemble

synthesizer

monophonic analog synthesizer

synthesizer

thumb|Ondioline - Classic Model, early 1950s - early 1960s The Ondioline is an electronic analog synthesizer, developed and built by Frenchman Georges Jenny. Sometimes referred to as the "Jenny Ondioline," the instrument is considered a forerunner of the synthesizer. First conceived by Jenny in 1939, he continued refining and reconfiguring the device, producing dozens of variant models up until his death in 1975.

analog synthesizer

thumb|A short demonstration of sounds created by a Formanta Polivoks synthesiser

music workstation

Monotimbral (from the root prefix mono meaning one, and timbre meaning a specific tone of a sound independent of its pitch) is usually used in reference to electronic synthesizers which can produce a single timbre at a given pitch when pressing one key (if the synth is monophonic) or multiple keys (if the synth is polyphonic).

analog polyphonic sound synthesizer

Soviet synthesizer

beginning of a musical note or sound

Paraphony is a term which has three distinct meanings in the field of music.