Max is a visual programming environment which allows you to custom build instruments and effects.

马克斯是一个可视化编程环境，让您可以自定义生成工具和效果。

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Actually, even before that, organs could mimic a number of instruments and also do some sound effects.

事实上，甚至在那之前，风琴就可以模仿许多乐器，还可以做一些音效。

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With short-term policy rates at or near zero, getting more of a monetary boost means expanding a set of instruments whose efficacy, and side-effects, are ill-understood (see article).

由于短期政策利率接近或已经达到零，因此获得更多的货币提振意味着扩展一系列手段，而这些手段的效果和副作用却并不知道。

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That said, Hungry, Hungry Ghost makes music that effectively captures the intimacy inherent in the recording process and conveys a sound that is surprisingly polished and fleshed out, with a wide assortment of instruments and sound effects, from the ukulele, to bells, to trumpets, to the occasional synthesizer.

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Their live performance was akin in style to Hot Chip or Basement Jaxx, and mixing live instruments and vocals with computer effects was certainly daring.

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