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“Samplers and their descendents, the PCM synthesizers (especially the Korg M1 and the Roland JV series), imitated not only real instruments much better than analog synthesizers, but also imitated analog synthesizers so well that the latter threatened to follow in the dinosaurs’ footsteps.”

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Book:Synthesizer Programming: Die Kunst des Sound-Designs für jeden erlernbar

Source: Synthesizer Programming: Die Kunst des Sound-Designs für jeden erlernbar

“I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.”

Use Musician Tools Customers Engineers Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.”

Reason Opportunity Stuff Design Musician Training Engineers Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.”

Two Used Guitar Albums Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.”

Way Use Father Written Style Produce Late Machines Critics Guitar Starting Hats Clarinet Synthesizers

Author:Pete Townshend

“I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.”

Ifs Way Feels Play Certain Stuff Enjoy Natural Heard Modern Rocks Missing Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Radio Stuck Who I Am Hips Hops Format Missing Out Synthesizers

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.”

Thinking Way Passion Views Fire Player Guitar Point Of View Sensitivity Guitar Player Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Synthesizers

Author:Jimmy Page

“By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.”

Years Building Instruments Musical Electronic Music Musical Instruments Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them - electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.”

Firsts Ideas Play Bigs Sound Exciting Orchestra Synthesizers

Author:John Carpenter

“It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.”

Play Use Sound Easier Logic Instruments Default Synthesizers

Author:D.A. Wallach

“I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.”

Ideas Song Synthesizers

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.”

World Way Needs Individual Process Voice Heard Musician Sorry Clever Cleverness Synthesizers

Author:Keith Jarrett

“I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to create. Sometimes that's with synthesizers, and sometimes that's with French horns. I love using all of them, depending on the scenario.”

World Trying Ideas Sometimes Helping Sound Audience Findings Horns Scenarios Synthesizers French Horn

Author:Joseph Trapanese

“Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.”

Ends Done Certain Stuff Sound Watches Opposites Theme Expecting Very Sad Synthesizers

Author:A. R. Rahman

“The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.”

Firsts Used Heard Rocks Synthesizers

Author:Herbie Hancock

“That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Lying Fun Water Influence Restriction Muddy Turner Synthesizers

Author:Vince Clarke

“It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.”

Mean Use Sound Source Synthesizers

Author:John Frusciante

“But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.”

Ifs Book Buddhism Instruction Synthesizers

Author:John Frusciante

“Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.”

World Remember Rocks Ridiculous Silly Rock N Roll Synthesizers

Author:Matthew Caws

“The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into something since 1931, and we are not about to stop now. Current advances in technology means we can have a huge array of sounds at our fingertips, and this offers amazing possibilities to the contemporary composer. It is always a guitar (I don't play synthesizer) but it becomes something else all together - more like sculpting sound in real time using metal wires, 5 fingers and a pick.”

“Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.”

People Should Kind Focus Guitar Evening Devices Pedals Primacy Synthesizers

Author:Tim Hecker

“As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.”

People Together Voice Synthesizers

Author:Andy Bell

“I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.”

Made Hard Stuff Sound Player Needed Instruments Complexes Bunch Plastic Steel Surplus Synthesizers

Author:Z'EV

“I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.”

Play Driven Synthesizers

Author:Kyle Parker

“I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.”

Machines Boxes Lazy Software Equipment Plugs Synthesizers

Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson

“There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.”

Trying Said Sound Machines Guitar Drummer Synthesizers Guitar Sound

Author:Matt Tong

“[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.”

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Author:Fred Armisen

“I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.”

Way Two Different Able Used My Own Figures Machines Track Studios Different Ways Tape Centre Delay Coming Back San Francisco Patches Tubes Electronic Music Recorders Synthesizers

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."”

Ifs Want Writing Together Sound Behinds Bottom Code Melody Synthesizers

Author:Miles Davis

“I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.”

Thinking Long Important Happens Computer Musician Long Time Cat Important Things Invention Guts Classroom Long Time Ago Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.”

Trying I Can Joyce Synthesizers

Author:Samuel Beckett

“If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.”

Ifs Feels Should Instruments Guitar Intimidated Guitarist Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

People Thinking World Important Motivational Running Able Together Choices Knowledge Information Right Time Literacy Starving Drowning Synthesizers Important Choices

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.”

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Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.”

Way Play Song Guitar Classic Old Fashioned Orchestra Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Synthesizers

Author:Marc Almond

“People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.”

“For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.”

Writing Instruments Guitar Great Writing Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.”

Four Machines Track Teenager Recorders Synthesizers Instrumental Music

Author:Duncan Sheik

“I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.”

Firsts Order Musician Worried Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.”

Hard Serious Competition Guitar Keyboards Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.”

Sound Guitar Obvious Corny Obvious Things Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.”

Firsts Synthesizers

Author:Steven Tyler

“Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.”

Knows Wells Play Guy Known Rocks Guitar Synthesizers

Author:Billy Corgan

“My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.”

Whole Changed Approach Synthesizers

Author:John Frusciante

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