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How Analog Synthesizers Differ From Digital Keyboards

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Summary: Learn how the sound of vintage analog synthesizers differs from modern digital keyboards in this free music video on analog synthesizers and vintage keyboards.

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Dan Rapport Dan Rapport has been playing keyboards for over ten years and is an avid collector of vintage keyboards and analog synthesizers. He also plays guitar and has ... read more

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by Mortar

You certainly know your stuff, but don't be such a analog snob. I've played both analog and digital and both have good and bad aspects about them.

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by wanttolearn

Hey Dan, I have a question. Me and some of my friends are planning to start a Drum & Bass band. I know that it takes a lot of experience to play a synthesizer well, but do you know what kind of synthesizer is best to have sound kind of like Pendulum (And Australian Drum & Bass band).

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by wanttolearn

Thanks.

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How Analog Synthesizers Differ From Digital Keyboards

My name is Dan Rapport. Today we are going to be talking about analog synthesizers and we have a couple of examples here and essentially what makes up an analog synthesizer is various discrete components, which can be modular or fixed in nature. The difference between an analog and a lot of keyboards that are being called synthesizers today has to do with the fact that it does not use any ICs or computer controlled components, it is all analog capacitors and components, so it lends a different quality to the sound and it can be much more expressive when playing live because you have all the switches and knobs to control various functions of the analog synthesis and all the keyboards that we have today use what is called subtractive synthesis as opposed to additive synthesis. Subtractive synthesis basically assumes that you are starting with a very bright harmonic rich sound and then you can modify that sound with the use of filters and envelope generators to make it less bright and less harmonics laden, so that’s the basic idea behind subtractive synthesis and most keyboards analog in nature we find that are non-modular will run off this basic idea of subtractive synthesis, which was invented by Bob Moog and Don Buchla back in the early 1960s.

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