My Favorite Synth is From ...1939(!)

[LivePsy]

This thread rears up the dangerous idea that the music you write is more important than the range of sounds you can make. Find a good bandpass pad and much of that sound is possible, but we wouldn't be posting "Preset A004 is all the pad I will ever need".

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[waxahachie]

According to Wikipedia the first synthesizer is from 1876.


History




The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray [1], who is best known for his development of a telephone prototype. The "Musical Telegraph" was a chance by-product of his telephone technology. Gray accidentally discovered that he could control sound from a self vibrating electromagnetic circuit and in doing so invented a basic single note oscillator. The Musical Telegraph used steel reeds whose oscillations were created and transmitted, over a telephone line, by electromagnets. Gray also built a simple loudspeaker device in later models consisting of a vibrating diaphragm in a magnetic field to make the oscillator audible.

[LivePsy]

According to me, the first synthesizer was whichever machine provided independent and programmable control over pitch, overtones and volume. Electric and then electronic tone generators were around for some time, but synthesis started with voltage control analog computers or digital calculations into a DA converter. You get to pick who did that first, but Theremins, Trautoniums and other oddities don't count.

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[waxahachie]

Interesting because the human body is a very complex machine and according to you description a fart is a synthesized sound, so according to you the butt is blow instrument or synthesizer or maybe is both?.

[LivePsy]

Can you control the fart's pitch, timbre and volume independently? If so, your arse is a synthesizer. You will find that these 3 elements of sound interact in most physical instruments, so that pitch or volume will affect timbre and the elements cannot be independently controlled.

I have no problem with a non mechanical or non electronic synthesizer, but your arse is no TI...

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[waxahachie]

If the fart come juicy the pitch can change but anyways lets finish here this human analytic comparison for don't start a off topic.
Have fun dude and remember don't practice in public.