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  • noun Plural form of synthesiser.

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Examples

  • "So the electronics and the synthesisers are the tools of the trade really, it just so happens that's what I enjoy using.

    Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010

  • For a huge chunk of my life I made music - not very well, admittedly, but it kept me going through some quite troubled times - and tinkering with synthesisers was as important as noodling on a guitar.

    Ada Lovelace Day: Wendy Carlos and “Switched on Bach” 2009

  • For a huge chunk of my life I made music – not very well, admittedly, but it kept me going through some quite troubled times – and tinkering with synthesisers was as important as noodling on a guitar.

    Sugar and spice and all things neurobiological 2009

  • I also had a horror of synthesisers and electric piano.

    Serendip City « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • It's from early in his career and you can tell he that didn't have that much money, so instead of doing things like string arrangements, he's using synthesisers.

    Robyn: Soundtrack of my life Gareth Grundy 2010

  • Here, most of the samples originate from 1980s television adverts, which are fed into soundscapes of Juno-60 synthesisers, making them part of a lineage stretching back to 1960s electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream, via 1980s Art of Noise, through to 1990s sample compilers the Future Sound of London, Archive and the Orb.

    Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica – review 2011

  • But it was Walter (later Wendy) Carlos who first brought attention to Moog and synthesisers in general with the landmark Switched-On Bach album in 1968.

    Hey, what's that sound: Moog synthesisers 2010

  • It ends with Home, its burbling synthesisers and clattering percussion simultaneously euphoric and subdued, with Murphy, as ever, plagued by doubts on the dancefloor, unable to decide whether music "can shut the door on terrible times" or only mask them partially: "Love and rock are fickle things? under lights we're all unsure."

    LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening 2010

  • She has removed the synthesisers from Lenny Kaye's original production but added electric guitar, while her singing is now a little slower and more confident, but with the same quiet charm.

    Suzanne Vega: Close-Up Vol 1, Love Songs 2010

  • Massive, fragile and impossible to tune, the modulars were designed and built to order in consultation with high-end consumers, but synthesisers at this point were far out of the price range (and comprehension) of the average musician.

    Hey, what's that sound: Moog synthesisers 2010

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