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Modular synthesizer, the Glossary

Modular synthesizers are synthesizers composed of separate modules for different functions.^[1]

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Modular synthesizers

Alesis Ion

The Alesis Ion is an analog modeling synthesizer.

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Amplitude

The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change in a single period (such as time or spatial period).

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Analog multiplier

In electronics, an analog multiplier is a device that takes two analog signals and produces an output which is their product.

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Analog sequencer

An analog sequencer is a music sequencer constructed from analog (analogue) electronics, invented in the first half of the 20th century.

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ARP 2500

The ARP 2500 is a monophonic analog modular synthesizer. Modular synthesizer and ARP 2500 are modular synthesizers.

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ARP 2600

The ARP 2600 is a subtractive synthesizer first produced by ARP Instruments, Inc in 1971.

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Arturia

Arturia is a French electronics company founded in 1999 and based in Grenoble, France.

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Audio signal

An audio signal is a representation of sound, typically using either a changing level of electrical voltage for analog signals, or a series of binary numbers for digital signals.

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Audiocubes

AudioCubes are a collection of wireless intelligent light-emitting objects, capable of detecting each other's location, orientation, and user gestures.

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AudioMulch

AudioMulch is modular audio software for making music and processing sound.

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Banana connector

A banana connector (commonly banana plug for the male, banana jack (or socket) for the female) is a single-wire (one conductor) electrical connector used for joining wires to equipment.

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Bidule

Bidule is a commercial software application for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia produced by the Canadian company Plogue Arts and Technology.

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Bitwig Studio

Bitwig Studio is a proprietary digital audio workstation developed by Bitwig GmbH.

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Breadboard

A breadboard, solderless breadboard, or protoboard is a construction base used to build semi-permanent prototypes of electronic circuits.

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Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments

Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments (BEMI) was a manufacturer of synthesizers and unique MIDI controllers. Modular synthesizer and Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments are modular synthesizers.

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La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC; English: The Canadian Electroacoustic Community) is Canada's national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from "pure" acousmatic and computer music to soundscape and sonic art to hardware hacking and beyond.

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Chiptune

Chiptune is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles.

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ChucK

ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and iOS.

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Circuit bending

Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.

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Creamware (company)

Creamware Audio GmbH (typically styled as creamw@re) was a manufacturer of DSP-based sound cards and synthesizers in Siegburg, Germany. Modular synthesizer and Creamware (company) are modular synthesizers.

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Csound

Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming.

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CV/gate

CV/gate (an abbreviation of control voltage/gate) is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines, and similar equipment with external sequencers.

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Delay (audio effect)

Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time.

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Digital signal

A digital signal is a signal that represents data as a sequence of discrete values; at any given time it can only take on, at most, one of a finite number of values.

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Doepfer

Doepfer Musikelektronik GmbH is a German manufacturer of audio hardware, mostly synthesizer modules (modular synthesizer), based in Gräfelfing, Upper Bavaria and founded by Dieter Döpfer. Modular synthesizer and Doepfer are modular synthesizers.

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Doepfer A-100

The Doepfer A-100 is an analog modular synthesizer system introduced by German audio manufacturer Doepfer in 1995. Modular synthesizer and Doepfer A-100 are modular synthesizers.

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Effects unit

An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.

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EMS Synthi 100

The EMS Synthi 100 was a large analogue/digital hybrid synthesizer made by Electronic Music Studios, London, originally as a custom order from Radio Belgrade for what was to be the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio, largely thanks to contact between composer Paul Pignon, then living in Belgrade, and Peter Zinovieff.

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EMS VCS 3

The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3) is a portable analog synthesizer with a flexible modular voice architecture introduced by Electronic Music Studios (EMS) in 1969.

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Envelope (music)

In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.

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Eurorack

Eurorack is a modular synthesizer format originally specified in 1995 by Doepfer Musikelektronik. Modular synthesizer and Eurorack are modular synthesizers.

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Fan-out

In digital electronics, the fan-out is the number of gate inputs driven by the output of another single logic gate.

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Frequency

Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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Frequency mixer

In electronics, a mixer, or frequency mixer, is an electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.

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Harald Bode

Harald Bode (October 19, 1909 – January 15, 1987) was a German engineer and pioneer in the development of electronic musical instruments.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Korg MS-10

Korg MS-10 is an analogue synthesizer created by Korg in 1978.

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Korg MS-20

The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic analog synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and which was in production until 1983.

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Korg PS-3300

The Korg PS-3300 is a polyphonic analog synthesizer released by Korg in 1977.

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Kyma (sound design language)

Kyma is a visual programming language for sound design used by musicians, researchers, and sound designers.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.

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Low frequency

Low frequency (LF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 30–300 kHz.

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Low-frequency oscillation

Low-frequency oscillation (LFO) is an electronic frequency that is usually below 20 Hz and creates a rhythmic pulse or sweep.

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Low-pass filter

A low-pass filter is a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a selected cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.

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Max (software)

Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Moog Mother-32

The Mother-32 is a semi-modular analog synthesizer.

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Moog Music

Moog Music Inc. is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Moog synthesizer

The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. Modular synthesizer and Moog synthesizer are modular synthesizers.

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MOTM

MOTM is the name of the modular synthesizer system manufactured by Synthesis Technology. Modular synthesizer and MOTM are modular synthesizers.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.

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Noise generator

A noise generator is a circuit that produces electrical noise (i.e., a random signal).

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Nord Modular

The Nord Modular series is a line of synthesizers produced by Clavia, a Swedish digital synthesizer manufacturer.

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Oberheim Matrix synthesizers

Oberheim Matrix synthesizers were a product line of subtractive analog synthesizers from Oberheim featuring a system of modulation which Oberheim called "Matrix Modulation" as a method of selecting and routing elements that dynamically shape various aspects of the sounds it produces.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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PAiA Electronics

one of the earliest programmable drum machines. --> PAiA Electronics, Inc. is an American synthesizer kit company that was started by John Simonton in 1967.

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Patch cable

A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Phone connector (audio)

A phone connector is a family of cylindrically-shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio signals.

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Pink noise

Pink noise, noise, fractional noise or fractal noise is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density (power per frequency interval) is inversely proportional to the frequency of the signal.

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Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

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Portamento

In music, portamento (plural: portamenti, from old portamento, meaning "carriage" or "carrying") is a pitch sliding from one note to another.

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Pure Data

Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works.

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Rack unit

A rack unit (abbreviated U or RU) is a unit of measure defined as.

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Reaktor

Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio developed by Native Instruments (NI).

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Resistive opto-isolator

Resistive opto-isolator (RO), also called photoresistive opto-isolator, vactrol (after a genericized trademark introduced by Vactec, Inc. in the 1960s), analog opto-isolatorIn PerkinElmer literature.

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Retro style

Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes.

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Rhodes Chroma

The ARP Chroma is a polyphonic, multitimbral, microprocessor controlled, subtractive synthesis analog synthesizer developed in 1979-1980 by ARP Instruments, Inc. just before the company's bankruptcy and collapse in 1981.

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Ring modulation

In electronics, ring modulation is a signal processing function, an implementation of frequency mixing, in which two signals are combined to yield an output signal.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.

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Roland System 100

The Roland System 100 was an analog semi-modular synthesizer (having an internal fixed signal path that could be overridden by plugging patch cables into the front of the synth) manufactured by Japan's Roland Corporation, released in 1975 and manufactured until 1979. Modular synthesizer and Roland System 100 are modular synthesizers.

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Roland System 700

The Roland System 700 was a professional monophonic modular synthesizer for electronic music manufactured by the Roland Corporation and released in 1976 and was followed by the Roland System-100M in 1978. Modular synthesizer and Roland System 700 are modular synthesizers.

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Roland System-100M

The Roland System-100M was a modular analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Modular synthesizer and Roland System-100M are modular synthesizers.

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RS Integrator

The RS Integrator is a series of analog modular synthesizer systems made by British company Analogue Systems, which had previously manufactured the TH48 step sequencer and FB3 Filterbank. Modular synthesizer and RS Integrator are modular synthesizers.

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Sample and hold

In electronics, a sample and hold (also known as sample and follow) circuit is an analog device that samples (captures, takes) the voltage of a continuously varying analog signal and holds (locks, freezes) its value at a constant level for a specified minimum period of time.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings).

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Serge synthesizer

The Serge synthesizer (Serge Modular or Serge Modular Music System) is an analogue modular synthesizer system originally developed by Serge Tcherepnin, Rich Gold and Randy Cohen at CalArts in late 1972. Modular synthesizer and Serge synthesizer are modular synthesizers.

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Sound module

A sound module is an electronic musical instrument without a human-playable interface such as a piano-style musical keyboard.

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Studio Electronics

Studio Electronics is a manufacturer of analog synthesizers and other music equipment.

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SunVox

SunVox, also known as SunVox Modular Music Creation Studio, is a 2008 music creation tool built around the SunVox Engine, a software-based modular synthesizer and tracker-based sequencer. Modular synthesizer and SunVox are modular synthesizers.

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SuperCollider

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

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Switched-On Bach

Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released in October 1968 by Columbia Records.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Synthesizers.com

Synthesizers.com is an American company based in Houston, Texas, and founded by engineer Roger Arrick (also a designer of robots) in 1997 and beginning to take orders in 2000, which manufactures analog modular synthesizers for music and sound-effect creation. Modular synthesizer and Synthesizers.com are modular synthesizers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer

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