Synthesizer
The synthesizer in five languages — synthesizer, sintetizzatore, Synthesizer, synthétiseur
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Five languages
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Chinese | 合成器 |
| English | synthesizer |
| Italian | sintetizzatore |
| German | Synthesizer |
| French | synthétiseur |
A synthesizer is a device or a method for producing and shaping sound electronically, from Greek synthesis, "putting together". Italian sintetizzatore, German Synthesizer and French synthétiseur name the same class of instrument. It can be a rack of modules or a piece of code in a chip; in the common subtractive approach, oscillators, filters and envelopes build the sound.
Watch out: synthesizer is not the name of one particular keyboard but a category of instrument and technique. An electronic keyboard with preset sounds is not necessarily a synthesizer, and a sampler plays recorded sounds rather than shaping waveforms from the start.
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- 各语种乐器名依通行音乐术语词典（参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Synthesizer"）；本文为原创表述
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