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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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At 5 am, I was shaken awake from my sleep by the dissonant sound of drumbeats and jarring notes emerging from a defunct synthesizer.
Using a synthesizer, he distorted tapes of recorded speech, making the words difficult to understand.
It was hard to image how it might sound on a synthesizer, so fluent and natural was Meyers' adaptation.
The melodies are almost invariably composed with buzzing, pleasantly grating synthesizer drones.
Variable frequency sawtooth waveforms are often utilized as an excitation signal in a digital musical synthesizer.
The work moves between quiet repetitive phrases for prepared piano and percussion to busy, Gamelan-like motifs for piano and digital synthesizer.

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