Examples of synthesizer in a Sentence

The band used a synthesizer for the drumbeat.

Recent Examples on the Web Starr was a music teacher and songwriter who played flute, bass, saxophone and an electronic wind synthesizer. — Washington Post, 28 May 2021 An obituary on Sunday about Malcolm Cecil, who helped to create a synthesizer prominently featured on four Stevie Wonder albums in the 1970s, misstated part of the name of a song by Mr. Wonder. — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021 Elliott Platt, a 17-year-old Canadian who releases music as ElyOtto, started it while playing around on a synthesizer, only working on the music in the first place after being laid off from his pet-store job due to the pandemic. — Justin Curto, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021 The track opens with sustained notes on a synthesizer, a gentle flood of melody. — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2021 For the Lost Tapes project, Magenta analyzed the artists’ songs as MIDI files, which works similarly to a player-piano scroll by translating pitch and rhythm into a digital code that can be fed through a synthesizer to recreate a song. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2021 You are carried along not by a rhythm track but by the flickers of Sanders’s horn, the distant sound of a synthesizer, string crescendos suggesting a light just past the horizon. — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021 This app completely replicates the best parts of Korg’s freely playable synth, putting a nearly $300 synthesizer in the palm of your hand. — Mallory Johns, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2021 In addition to singing, Cave played piano, synthesizer, and percussion on the record. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021

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