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What is a synthesizer?

What is a synthesizer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) An electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard.
  2. (music) An electronic instrument module that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
  3. (electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
  4. (electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.
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Examples
Using a synthesizer, he distorted tapes of recorded speech, making the words difficult to understand.
The melodies are almost invariably composed with buzzing, pleasantly grating synthesizer drones.
The traditional tuba and charchetas are replaced by electric bass and synthesizer.
The work moves between quiet repetitive phrases for prepared piano and percussion to busy, Gamelan-like motifs for piano and digital synthesizer.
Particularly clever is the use of the extracted reverberation from the harp, used as an eerie synthesizer patch in its own right.
I had a go at it with a soldering iron, hooked it up to a synthesizer, and it played the drums for me.

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