A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. Electronic keyboards make music through sound waves. The very earliest digital synthesis experiments were made with general-purpose computers, as part of academic research into sound generation.

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  • A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. Electronic keyboards make music through sound waves. The very earliest digital synthesis experiments were made with general-purpose computers, as part of academic research into sound generation. Early commercial digital synthesizers used simple hard-wired digital circuitry to implement techniques such as additive synthesis and FM synthesis, becoming commercially available in the early 1980s. Other techniques, such as wavetable synthesis and physical modeling, only became possible with the advent of high-speed microprocessor and digital signal processing technology. One of the earliest commercial digital synthesizers was the Synclavier. The Yamaha DX7 was the first commercial all-digital synthesizer. It became indispensable to many music artists of the 1980s. Some digital synthesizers now exist in the form of "softsynth" software that synthesizes sound using conventional PC hardware, though they require careful programming and a fast CPU to get the same latency response as their dedicated equivalents. In order to reduce latency, some professional sound card manufacturers have developed specialized digital signal processing hardware. Dedicated digital synthesizers frequently have the advantage of onboard accessibility, with switchable front panel controls to peruse their functions, whereas software synthesizers trump their dedicated counterparts with their additional functionality, against the handicap of a mouse-driven control system.
  • デジタルシンセサイザーとは、デジタル信号処理技術を使って音声信号処理を行なうシンセサイザーである。多様な音声合成方式が存在する。デジタル処理された音声信号はデジタル-アナログ変換回路を通してアナログ信号として出力される。
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  • A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. Electronic keyboards make music through sound waves. The very earliest digital synthesis experiments were made with general-purpose computers, as part of academic research into sound generation.
  • デジタルシンセサイザーとは、デジタル信号処理技術を使って音声信号処理を行なうシンセサイザーである。多様な音声合成方式が存在する。デジタル処理された音声信号はデジタル-アナログ変換回路を通してアナログ信号として出力される。
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  • Digital synthesizer
  • デジタルシンセサイザー
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