Electronic synthesizer can edit the timbre of any note, which provides a space platform for creation. You can make any timbre effect if you want. Theoretically, an electronic synthesizer represents the timbre of any musical instrument in the world, and you may get the timbre of all musical instruments in the world. This feature makes electronic synthesizer an essential tool for electronic music creation, and it is also a great progress in reducing the cost of music production.
Take China Independent Musician Dark Bar as an example. Representative works include Storybrooke, Singer and Storyteller. His music creation form is mainly electronic synthesizer, which can be clearly seen in his live broadcast. He only has a folk guitar in his hand, but he can switch timbres at any time and play the timbres of violin, electric guitar, trumpet, piano, classical guitar, saxophone and other instruments. But it contains the details of vibrato, glide and other playing skills. In this way, for independent musicians, an electronic synthesizer can complete the establishment of a small music studio, which greatly reduces the demand cost of various musicians. At the same time, the biggest advantage is that the sampling of musical instrument timbre is mainly digital.
Electronic organ can't achieve the arbitrary editing effect of any musical instrument, which is only limited to the performance of electronic keyboard and fixed stored timbre. Electronic synthesizer can provide MIDI interface, so that any musical instrument can complete any timbre playing form. Theoretically, a high-grade professional electronic synthesizer can record multiple tracks independently, which is very popular in Europe and America. It provides a brand-new experience of directly producing finished music on the spot.
The following is a brief supplementary explanation from the principle and formation reasons of electronic synthesizer and electronic organ;
1: electronic synthesizer; Thirty-two overtones The significance of electronic synthesizer comes from the popularization of scientific progress. From a scientific point of view, in the vibration frequency generated by sound, the basic unit of each tone can be divided into a group of 32 overtones. Simply put, any stable timbre is formed by the different levels of its 32 overtones.
The set of these 32 overtones is the set of monophonic frequency waves. Theoretically, why the electronic synthesizer can change the timbre at will is because the core component of the electronic synthesizer is the ability to edit and change the thirty-two overtones. You can change the timbre by changing these 32 basic overtones. The timbres of all instruments are the collection of these 32 overtones in the final wavelength result, so it can be concluded that there is a tool that can change the timbres of all instruments by changing the overtones finally reflected by the wavelength, which is the core of the electronic synthesizer.
In fact, it is the application of Moore's law that realizes the deeper editing of the thirty-two overtones. Because Moore's law shows that every 18 months, the number of integrated transistors will double and the integration performance will double. This makes it possible to realize the bottom ability from electronic organ to electronic synthesizer. After all, the requirements of an editable music platform for production level and integration ability are completely different from those of a simple writing electronic organ.
According to the editing operation of 32 overtones and the improvement of Moore's law, MIDI, an electronic synthesizer, can't reach a more popular value. The core lies in the technological changes after the performance improvement caused by Moore's Law, mainly including two technologies: synchronization technology and arrangement technology. Talking about people is: multi-track distribution ability and arbitrary input ability and arbitrary output ability.
Synchronization technology is the key to the popularization of electronic synthesizer or MIDI (Intelligent Digital Music Interface). Because even though I had the editing ability of 32 overtones in the early days, I actually improved the actual music. It was not until the appearance of synchronization technology that the editing ability expanded to a stage. As we know, the main body of music is divided into monophonic, tonic and polyphonic. Among them, a single tone cannot constitute basic music, and at least a combination of tonic and infrasound can have general music popularity. Synchronization technology, for electronic synthesizers, is the ability to increase audio tracks.
Adding an audio track, so that the added audio track and the original audio track are in a time track at the same time to complete the power amplifier, which is the synchronization technology. That is, multi-track distribution; However, the increase of audio tracks alone cannot satisfy the popularity of MIDI. Because MIDI with synchronous technology is only a functional supplement of internal timbre, it can complete non-vocal music types such as classical music and light music.
In fact, MIDI can't complete the huge amount of music like classical music because of its small size. Therefore, the electronic synthesizer of this period is only a band and the status of band accompaniment. Until the arranger appeared.
Arranger, as its name implies, is an integrated Arranger logic, which greatly encapsulates a large-scale mixer and can complete complex functions with simple operations. Among them, input and output are the core of arrangement ability, which provides a perfect stage for B-box and pop music. In fact, electronic synthesizer is simpler than professional mixer in value and function, so it is impossible to divide the field of professional mixer on the professional top music stage. Pop music is the stage of electronic synthesizer.
The emergence of arrangement and synchronization technology directly makes the electronic synthesizer make up for the last shortcoming. Let the music arrangement reach a great degree of popularization. Even today, the whole arranger market is basically the audience of midi. The purpose of digital music interface is to arrange music. Arranging technology is a large-scale progress in music production.
In this way, a miniature music workstation is popularized in the form of electronic synthesizer, which makes the top electronic music synthesizer production companies in Europe and America launch brand-new multifunctional electronic synthesizers every once in a while. This makes the types of electronic synthesizers begin to increase, and various functions are gradually realized. For example, common striking pads, electronic synthesizers with small octaves, and pedal electronic synthesizers with wider practicability.
In Europe and America, Boss Huang is a big fan of electronic synthesizers. His concert fully shows that one person is the whole band. The bottom of all this can only be achieved by upgrading the infrastructure such as electronic synthesizer.
2. Electronic organ: in order to solve the difficulty of moving the organ; Electronic organ essentially belongs to electronic synthesizer. It can be considered as an electronic synthesizer without editing and synthesizing function, because the electronic organ is actually the music popularization of integrated circuits. Electronic piano is a general term, which is essentially different from electric piano. Electric steel should be more accurately described as digital piano.
The origin of electronic organ is to solve the problem that the organ of "the king of musical instruments" is too big to move. Organ is different from accordion. The organ is very big, with five keyboards on the feet. The women's musical instrument of September Miracle is more complicated. But the organ is recognized as the early "king of musical instruments" by the top music in Europe and America. Because of its majestic momentum, it is suitable for activities such as worship.
In order to retain the advantages of the organ and remove its disadvantages, the electronic organ appeared.
1907, an American T. Cahill invented an electronic organ that uses electromagnetic coils to generate scale signals. This is the first time to popularize the common sense of electronic core music, but the technology here is immature and the volume is reduced, but it is closer to the electronic accordion we know. Note that the original electronic piano is not the electric piano we thought, but the accordion. The original piano keyboard was also derived from the keyboard of the organ.
1939, Allen organ is sold in American market. This kind of electronic organ is lighter and more economical than the organ, and is widely used in teaching and concert halls, so it has a certain market. By 1950, the annual output of electronic pianos in the United States will reach 654.38+million, which is close to that of pianos. 1964, Moog invented the synthesizer in America, and the times began to change. In China, a universal electronic organ from 200 yuan sold well in the 1990s. This is Yamaha's stage.
Yamaha is an important existence that promotes the style of electronic organ from organ to piano. The electronic organ in our impression today is an electronic keyboard, which is a change made by Yamaha. It used to be a multifunctional organ with a three-layer keyboard, but now it looks like a piano with a single keyboard, mainly headed by Yamaha.
In terms of function, electronic synthesizers are widely used now, and the musical style of electronic organ is greatly limited, which is biased towards the dance style of the new century, the gospel and the 1980 s and 1990 s, belonging to the old times. Electronic synthesizers are beginning to glow and become the standard of new pop music production ability!
Electronic organ:
Electronic organ is a term invented by China people. Many people think that the electronic organ is seen in the supermarket outside, probably 1, 200 yuan or children's toys with several hundred yuan. But in fact, this toy electronic organ does not represent the real electronic organ. Strictly speaking, the electronic organ should belong to the category of "arranging keyboard", with perfect automatic accompaniment function, with its own speaker and sound source, which can be played directly when connected to the power supply. Regular professional electronic organ generally ranges from several thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, with hundreds or even thousands of timbres. Most electronic keyboards have no counterweight and sequencer, so the timbre cannot be edited. However, in recent years, some high-end electronic organs have become more and more powerful with the functions of sequencer, editable timbre and sampling. Generally, there are 6 1 key, 76 key, 88 key and other options.
Synthesizer:
On the whole, the synthesizer should be the most powerful. It has many MIDI keyboard controllers and many electronic organ timbres, and the timbre of synthesizer is generally much better than that of electronic organ. In addition, synthesizers generally have built-in basic waveforms, which can be adjusted to generate new timbre; Built-in sound sequencer, perfect function, can directly make music; Built-in sampler can directly collect the real sound of nature for your own use; Built-in arpeggio device can quickly generate music sentences; Built-in MIDI controller can directly control the sequencer or other MIDI devices on the computer; Keyboard feel is generally half or full weight, with front touch/back touch strength and so on. The price of synthesizer varies from thousands, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands according to different functions, and it is a right-hand man for musicians.
Synthesizers can save costs, but they are still much worse than bands. The old version of A Dream of Red Mansions was played much better by the Beijing Film Orchestra, and the Li version was made by an electronic synthesizer, which was very bad.
Synthesizer has powerful timbre editing function, and it doesn't need automatic accompaniment, while the electronic organ (actually called arranger keyboard) mentioned before has automatic accompaniment and simple timbre editing function. Electronic organ is a general term, and double-row keys, synthesizers and arranger keyboards are collectively referred to as electronic organs.