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A Brief History of Synthesizers Music has its own unique appeal, which made its maiden appearance in the musical transcends boundaries and touches every circuits. However, it was then a much simpler single soul. The most versatile amongst all device. It had monophonic features and had no instruments, which have transformed the memory  unlike  future  synthesizers. entire musical landscape globally,is the synthesizer. Synthesizers have the magic to The late 70s and early 80s, there was a spurt bring  life  to  any  performance. of initiatives to build ones own synthesizer. Many media reports at that time also flashed History of synthesizers is replete with designs that were published in hobby interesting twists and turns. The mid 80s electronics magazines. There are also proved to be a booming phase for this magical interesting anecdotes on how synthesizers instrument. The history of electronic music were  evolved  in  each  household. reached a new height with the emergence of the  synthesizer. Some of the noteworthy synthesizer manufacturers who has contributed to the Some of the synthesizer models which history  were  as  follows absolutely proved to be the delight of musicians  are  as  follows Access  Music CZ-2600S Alesis CZ-3000 ARP CZ-101 Arturia CZ-230S Akai CZ-1000 Buchla  and  Associates CZ-5000 Casio CT-6500 Clavia Types  of  synthesizers Further research in the field of synthesizers however, led to the emergence of a Synthesizers are primarily of three different much-matured device in 1975, which had kinds,  which  are  as  follows polyphonic features. This particular category of synthesizer was capable of playing 2-8 Analog notes at one time depending on the model. This kind of synthesizers had amazing storage Digital capacity  with  16  separate  memory  slots. Software The bass synthesizer was perhaps the most popular version of synthesizers, which has There are also synthesizers, which are a carved a niche for itself in the history combination of the above-mentioned kinds books. This version of synthesizer was known  as  hybrid  synthesizers. capable of producing new sounds for this version. What contributed greatly to the There are many synthesis methods, which have popularity of synthesizers were its unique gradually evolved over the years. Some of features. Synthesizers could easily be them  are  as  follows integrated and synchronised with other musical  instruments. Frequency  modulation  synthesis The year 1978 saw the emergence of the first Phase  distortion  synthesis fully equipped polyphonic synthesizers. This device was capable of producing 5 tones at Physical  synthesis one go. It also had increased memory capacity with 32 different memory slots. They later Sample-based  synthesis emerged as the most popular accompanier in the  musical  circuits. Sub  harmonic  synthesis However, the history of synthesizers Subtractive  synthesis underwent a paradigm change with the advent of lead keyboard. They were also known as Additive  synthesis analog synthesizers. These kind of synthesizers gave musicians greater freedom Granular  synthesis to  editing. Wavetable  synthesis Traversing a long interesting road synthesizers have emerged as the most popular Synthesizers first hit the market in 1971. It musical instrument. It has become an integral was then that the first pre-wired synthesizer part of the entire musical journey globally. 1 A B C D E 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 117 118 119 120