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| quote: | Originally posted by Sanguis Mortuum
So Kontakt is a synth too? An Akai is a synth as well? An MPC is a synth?
I maintain that, unless it generates (aka synthesises) its own sound, rather than playing back samples, its not a synth... |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJREMIDI
Nexus is definitely NOT a synth - it's a sample playback device with minimal control and no editing capabilities...
I believe a synthesizer has to have at least one (built-in) sound generator (oscillator)... |
| quote: | Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις and is being used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. |
In other words, a synth is anything which is capable of "generating and/or manipulating". Hence, when you play a drum straight through battery, it is being sampled - nothing has been "generated" per se`. When you play a drum through battery with the envelope changed it is synthesized. The distinction is that something new has been made (something new has been SYNTHESIZED). Definition of synthesized: "commonly understood to be an integration of two or more pre-existing elements which results in a new creation".
Anyway... Does it really matter? 
Last edited by echosystm on Jun-13-2007 at 06:44
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