Electronic music instruments Electronic music instruments An analog synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. ...more on Wikipedia about "Analog synthesizer"
Casiotone refers to a series of home electronic keyboards released by Casio Computer Co. in the early 1980s. These first keyboards used a sound synthesis technique known as Vowel-Consonant synthesis to approximate instrument sounds (albeit not very accurately). Most Casiotone keyboards were small, with miniature keys designed for children's fingers, and were not intended for professional musicians; they usually contained a rhythm generator, with several user-selectable rhythm patterns, and often the means to automatically play accompaniments. While Casiotone keyboards were discontinued when more accurate synthesis technologies became prevalent, their cheapness and abundance resulted in them being widely used by garage bands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Casiotone"
The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument related to the Mellotron. It was created by Harry Chamberlin in 1946. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chamberlin"
CV/Gate (an abbreviation of Control Voltage/Gate) was an early system to have synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines control one another. It was quite primitive when compared to the more modern MIDI system of synchronization, but it was the most widely-used method of control before MIDI. ...more on Wikipedia about "CV/Gate"
The Denis d'or ("golden Dionysus" - spelling variants: Denisdor and Denydor) is, in the broadest sense, the first electric musical instrument in history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Denis d'or"
A digital piano is a modern electronic musical instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play and in the sound produced. Some digital pianos are also designed to look like a real, acoustic piano. While digital pianos may fall short of the genuine article in feel and sound, they nevertheless have many advantages over normal pianos: ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital piano"
A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital synthesizer"
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drum machine"
DTX electronic drum is the line of electronic-MIDI drum set manufacteured by Yamaha. The DTX Trigger System is a custom drum module which can be used to trigger sounds with acoustic drums (best demonstrated by drummer Akira Jimbo). A modified version of the DTX kit can be found in 2 drumming games: MTV Drumscape (which is not considered a true 'game') and the much more popular Drummania. ...more on Wikipedia about "DTX"
The Dubreq Stylophone was a miniature electronic musical instrument invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis. It consisted of a metal keyboard that was played by touching it with a stylus - each note being connected to a cheap voltage-controlled oscillator via a different-value resistor - thus closing a circuit and creating a sound. Some three million Stylophones were sold, mostly as children's toys. Rolf Harris appeared for several years as the Stylophone's advertising spokesman in the United Kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dubreq Stylophone"
The Electro-Theremin aka Tannerin is a unique electronic musical instrument developed by trombonist Paul Tanner and amateur inventor Bob Whitsell in the late 1950s. The instrument features a tone and portamento similar to that of the Theremin (Thereminvox), for which it is named. Unlike the Theremin, the Electro-Theremin uses mechanical controls rather than hand movement in space to control pitch and amplitude. The Electro-Theremin also produces a less complex timbre, as all sounds are created using a single sine wave oscillator rather than the Theremin's mixture of two heterodyning oscillators. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electro-Theremin"
An electronic drum is a percussion instrument in which the sound is generated by an electronic waveform generator or sampler instead of by acoustic vibration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic drum"
An electronic keyboard is any keyboard instrument which uses electronics to produce its sound. Professional electronic musical instruments which are traditionally equipped with a keyboard include synthesizers, samplers, electronic organs, and digital pianos. However, musicians generally refer to these instruments by name or simply as keyboards, reserving the term electronic keyboard for keyboard instruments marketed to amateur musicians and children. Such instruments are typically inexpensive, smaller, and lack many features offered by professional instruments. They can generally be purchased in electronics stores side by side with stereos, video games, cells phones, etc., or even in toy stores. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic keyboard"
An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. In contrast, the term electric instrument is used to mean instruments whose sound is produced mechanically, and only amplified electronically - for example an electric guitar. Usually the instrument will have some way of controlling the sound, such as by adjusting the pitch, frequency, or duration of each note. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic musical instrument"
Groovebox was originally used by Roland corporation to refer their MC-303, but now more generically refers to a standalone instrument that includes a combination of any of a drum machine, a synthesizer or a sampler along with a music sequencer and a combination of knobs ( potentiometer or rotary encoder), sliders and buttons that allow a musician to control and construct a pattern-based sequence or a song consisting of the more than one such sequence chained together in a live or immediate way. ...more on Wikipedia about "Groovebox"
A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds. It is famously used by Jean-Michel Jarre in his concerts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Laser harp"
The lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first to be constructed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lyricon"
The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mellotron"
MIDI controller is used in two senses. In one sense, a controller is hardware or software which generates and transmits MIDI data to MIDI-enabled devices. In the other more technical sense, a MIDI controller is an abstraction of the hardware used to control a performance, but which is not directly related to note-on/note off events. A slider assigned to open and close a low-pass filter on a synthesizer may be assigned to controller 18, for example. Changes in the position of the slider are transmitted along with "18" so that they are distinguished from changes in the value of other controllers. ...more on Wikipedia about "MIDI controller"
Midiboard is a contraction of Midi and Piano keyboard, Midiboards were keyboards sold without sound synthesis during the later part of the 1980s to address the needs of performance artists who needed a master keyboard to control racks of Midi synthesis modules (synthesizers without keyboards), a separation that was made possible with MIDI technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Midiboard"
moogerfooger is the trademark for a series of analog effects pedals manufactured by Moog Music. There are currently five different pedals produced, however one of these models is designed for processing control voltages rather than audio signal. A sixth model, the Analog Delay, was released in a limited edition of 1000 units and has become a collector's item. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moogerfooger"
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A music workstation is piece of electronic musical equipment providing the facilities of: ...more on Wikipedia about "Music workstation"
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that defines each musical note in an electronic musical instrument such as a synthesizer, precisely and concisely, allowing electronic musical instruments and computers to exchange data, or "talk", with each other. MIDI does not transmit audio - it simply transmits digital information about a music performance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musical Instrument Digital Interface"
An Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate and numerous chord buttons. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons, and strum the touch plate. Omnichords often feature preset rhythms with a tempo control which the player may use as accompaniment. Other features may include a selection of voices, and effects such as vibrato and sustain, as well as a chord memory in more advanced models. ...more on Wikipedia about "Omnichord"
The Ondes Martenot (also known as the Ondes-Martenot, Ondes martenot, Ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicale) is an early electronic musical instrument with a keyboard and slide invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot, and originally very similar in sound to the Theremin. The sonic capabilities of the instrument were subsequently expanded by the addition of filter banks and switchable loudspeakers. The instrument is especially known for its eerie wavering notes produced by the thermionic valves that produce oscillating frequencies, responsible for the female voice effects in the original Star Trek theme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ondes Martenot"
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