The many synthesizers used on the songs tapped into a nostalgia that the band members, all in their mid-30s, were feeling for the 1980s.
Last night at Washington, DC's 9:30 Club, it took only the first sting of synthesizers to rocket the packed house straight back to 1982.
The band used synthesizers of widely varying quality and vintage to come up with moods that ranged from menacing to melodramatic.
So there Dr. Mick Grierson was, wandering around a French barn, minding his own business when all of a sudden he happened upon an antique: one of the earliest modern synthesizers.
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With software synthesizers, the Mac can mimic anything from a vintage analog synthesizer to a grand piano to a cello.
It was also in the late 90s that everyone made their oligos in-house with personal synthesizers, then followed the great reduction in price battles, local synthesis closed down, major city players got purchased and eventually only 6-10 very large providers remain with very low margins and production based business models.
It used to be a game where folks who didn't have a lot of money used the technology to create the sounds they heard coming from synthesizers they couldn't buy.
Yamaha PSR3000Yamaha's latest "home keyboard" models (if you were going to diss on them you'd definitely be calling them organs rather than synthesizers) come with the ability to hook up to a DSL modem and download new songs to pick out on said keyboard, karaoke tunes with lyrics to sing along to, or just muzak.
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Ever since age 14, the 65-year-old inventor of everything from music synthesizers to speech recognition systems has aimed to create a true artificial intelligence, even going so far as to predict that machines would match human intelligence by 2029.
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Synthesizers and other elements of mainstream reggae, techno and rap infuse the music.
With the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of Nirvana, nuclear anxiety gave way to more unchanneled angst accompanied by fewer synthesizers.
The 1956 sci-fi thriller Forbidden Planet was the first major motion picture to feature an all-electronic film score a soundtrack that predated synthesizers and samplers.
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