INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIZERS - hol.gr
INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIZERS - hol.gr
INTRODUCTION TO SYNTHESIZERS - hol.gr
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Click on the icon to listen to a modern drum<br />
machine loop! (93 kB)<br />
(The drum machine you hear is the Korg ER-1<br />
featured below.)<br />
Korg ER-1 Rhythm Synthesizer<br />
Mixers and effects<br />
One good example of a modern drum machine is the Korg<br />
ER-1 Electribe Rhythm Synthesizer, featuring excellent<br />
and modern percussive sounds in combination with<br />
superior real-time expressiveness.<br />
The sounds can be tweaked and reshaped during<br />
playback, allowing a much higher de<strong>gr</strong>ee of<br />
responsiveness than what's possible with music<br />
workstations and samplers.<br />
When using synthesizers in your music, you will sooner or later get involved with a certain amount of studio<br />
technology, whether you like it or not. Even if this subject falls slightly outside the scope of these web pages, I<br />
feel it to be necessary to include some basic information about home studio recording equipment and<br />
techniques.<br />
Since a synthesizer has no built-in speakers, to hear what you're playing you will either have to use<br />
headphones, or you will need to plug it into some kind of sound reinforcement equipment.<br />
Most synthesizers usually have two audio outputs - a left and a right output jack. These two has to be plugged<br />
into the corresponding left and right input jacks of an amplifier, such as the regular home stereo amplifier. Its<br />
really not that different from plugging a CD-player into your home stereo rack.<br />
The same thing applies if you wish to record what you're playing - just plug the cords from the synthesizer into<br />
the left and right input jacks of your tape deck or recording equipment.<br />
But sooner or later you may face a problem: let's say that you buy a second synthesizer and want to be able to<br />
play and record the sound of both of them simultaneously. What can you do?<br />
The solution is of course very simple: you will need to use a mixer. A mixer in its most basic form is a device<br />
that will take a number of inputs and mix these to a few outputs - often just a stereo output.<br />
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