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If you have ever seen a Keyboard Synthesizer, you would have observed that it looks very much like the usual arranger keyboard or musical keyboard. But then that is where the comparison actually ends. A Synthesizer is a far more superior musical instrument and is meant for the professional musician.

Though they look like keyboards and most of them have 61 keys, they include sound generating elements which can be used to create professional sounds and patterns. Synthesizers are much more expensive instruments and they give you the capability to manipulate various parameters of the built-in sounds. Basically, it is used in studios for recording purposes.

Since they are professional instruments, they usually do not have built-in speakers. You are supposed to connect it to external speakers, also known as monitors to hear what you are playing. These instruments do not have built-in accompaniment patterns as well.

You will find that the sounds from synthesizers are used as sound effects in background scores and lot of keyboardists also use them in bands because of their stunning sounds and effects.

It is not that these are used only for techno sounds, these instruments contain many melody and percussion sounds as well. But then these instruments have huge fan following because of their ability to create completely new sounds from scratch.

You have the ability to program and save these sounds in the instrument itself for later use or you can even choose to play these sounds in real time. For that reason, these instruments are used both in studios as well as for live performances.

Synthesizer Picture

Synthesizer Photo

Synthesizer Picture

Synthesizer Photo

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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
I can’t believe the size, the price, or the sound
By BENJAMIN MILER
The MicroKorg is probably the finest synth you’ll ever get at that price. It’s very small (same size as many of those toy keyboards you grew up as a kid, but this is no toy), and has 37 keys, although the big criticisms here is Korg opted for toy keyboard-sized keys, rather than full-sized keys (the similar sized and similarly priced Alesis Micron, also 37 keys, used full-sized keys). It’s a four note polyphonic virtual analog synth capable of fantastic analog sounds, with all the great sounds of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s! It’s essentially a Korg MS-2000 in a small package, but with an 8-band vocoder (instead of 16-band), and a superior arpeggiator, great for all you electronica and techno buffs out there, or those who want to create Tangerine Dream-like rhythms without the bulky gear that group had to use back in the glory days of the mid ’70s. I’ve been aware of vocoders for ages, and of course, was a huge trademark in Kraftwerk’s sound (they started using vocoders starting with 1973′s Ralf & Florian, which is one album prior to their famous breakthrough, Autobahn), I am so happy to now personally own a vocoder, that is, one included in a synth. It has a condensor microphone for use of a vocoder, although you can hook up any standard microphone too. Like most any synth made in the last 20-25 years, it’s MIDI, so you can have it interact with other MIDI synths, drum machines, your computer, or any other MIDI device.

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