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| | Synth Glossary |
 | | Peripheral : A computer peripheral is a unit that is separate to the main computer- a printer, a disk drive, a musical keyboard. | | | An alphanumeric keyboard is an I/O device, so is a CRT screen (when a light pen is added for input), a musical keyboard is often an input device and sometimes also an output device. | | | In music computers, the device which takes input from a keyboard (or other analog sound source) and converts it into information the computer can store. |
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| | ProRec Editorial Staff: 2000 Reader's Choice Voting Guide - Musical Instrument Technology |
| | The software synthesizer and sampler family for the Pulsar DSP system includes a large array of vintage keyboard simulators as well as the hallmark Pulsar Modular synth. | | | GigaSampler™ is the only music software product to stream samples- in real-time - directly from the hard disk when played via a keyboard controller or other MIDI device. | | | Reality is a powerful, upgradeable addition to any MIDI system for far less than you'd pay for a new keyboard or sound module. |
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http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/files/2000readerschoiceguideinstrument
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| | The Holmes Page: The Fairlight CMI |
| | BACK TO The Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument is a computer-based digital sampling instrument that was considered state-of-the-art in the 1980s. | | | By 1979 they were ready to demonstrate the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument. | | | It is most useful during a live performance where there is often no room for the video display and computer keyboard on stage. |
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| | Frequently Asked Questions |
| | The difference between a sampler and a tape machine, is that a sampler is a musical instrument, usually with a musical keyboard attached, that can play sounds at different pitches, just like a piano or an organ. | | | A: In the music world, sampling typically means recording actual musical instrument sounds as individual tones, and then playing them on a keyboard as if you were playing a piano. | | | A: A sampler is a type of musical instrument which allows you to record and play samples. |
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| | Korg keyboards at The Discount Keyboard Shop |
| | Be assured, you won't find cheaper prices for musical keyboards and sythesizers anywhere else online! | | | Korg keyboards at The Discount Musical Keyboard Shop | | | Here at the Discount Keyboards Shop, we've searched the Internet to find you the best deals for Korg keyboards. |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - MIDI - The Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| | Although the MIDI In could be used to play the computer's sound card from a keyboard, and in theory the computer's keyboard be used as a piano keyboard to send messages through the MIDI Out, there is a much more appealing use of the MIDI ports of a computer: music recording. | | | MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technology enabling synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments to be connected to each other, or to a computer. | | | (This feature is called 'quantization'.) The problem with this though is that it can make the music sound a little regimented, and will also destroy any intentional deviations from the 'correct' rhythm; a great deal of musical expression is achieved through taking slight liberties with the timing, a subtlety lost on such an 'enhancement' facility. |
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| | Portable Keyboards: Products - Yamaha Musical Instrument Portal |
| | It comes bundled with the Konami Keyboard Mania game software, is USB equipped and can function as a music component in a home computer system. | | | The powerful, expressive, feature-packed Tyros2 is an ideal instrument for virtually any musical application, from solo performance, songwriting and arranging to computer music recording. | | | The DJX-II is a 61-key keyboard with a built-in groove box, a sampler, a synthesizer and more. |
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| | Keyboard |
| | Musical keyboards, the means of operating keyboard instruments such as the piano, harpsichord and organ. | | | Many computer keyboards have this kind of numeric keypad on the right-hand side. | | | Other types of keyboards, known as numeric keypads, are the |
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| | Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For this reason, keyboard instruments are often regarded as inhabiting a category of their own, including all instruments played by a keyboard, whether they have struck strings (like the piano), plucked strings (like the harpsichord) or no strings at all (like the celesta). | | | He was the curator of the musical instrument collection of the conservatoire in Brussels, and for the 1888 catalogue of the collection divided instruments into four groups: strings, winds, drums, and other percussion. | | | At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used. |
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| | MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| | Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an industry-standard interface used on electronic musical keyboards and PCs for computer control of musical instruments and devices. | | | Musical Instrument Digital Interface (instruments equipped with MIDI can communicate with each other and with computers). | | | An international standard for communication between a musical instrument and a computer. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Musician |
| | For the use of the term orchestration in computer science, see orchestration (computers) Orchestration or arrangement is the study and practice of arranging music for an orchestra or musical ensemble. | | | A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. | | | Human beings did not begin producing music by banging away on a keyboard, nor are they the only creatures which respond to (or produce) rhythm and melody. |
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| | Mark Prigoff.com - MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) |
| | The instrument was actually originally invented for use by the military and constructed out of scrap metal from old airplane parts (thus the curved top of the keyboard which resembled a section of an old airplane wing). | | | Finally, in the late "70's", several of the primary keyboard manufacturers agreed that there was a need for a general specification and protocol to allow for a universal standard between digital instruments and between all manufacturers of these devices. | | | These devices include: pianos (such as the Yamaha Disklavier), digital pianos (which are totally electronic in nature), portable keyboards, organs, sound modules (tone generators), drum machines, sequencers and a variety of other devices including effects units and other MIDI controllers. |
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| | MIDI Primer - The Tapeless Studio |
| | The Musical Instrument Digital Interface was invented in the early 80s, as a way to create layered sounds by controlling several sound generators from one keyboard. | | | It is a code that allows various musical devices to exchange information describing a musical performance. | | | A MIDI master may be a keyboard or other instrument, or it may be a sequencer. |
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| | However, the software sampler has to store the first part of each sample in RAM in order to be able to respond instantly when you play the keyboard, so you'll still need plenty of memory. | | | A sampler can be a wonderful musical tool. | | | Though many professionals prefer to use software samplers because of their 24-bit, 96 kHz sampling, a fast computer is required, as is extensive hard-disk space for storing samples. |
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| | MIDI Primer - The Tapeless Studio |
| | The Musical Instrument Digital Interface was invented in the early 80s, as a way to create layered sounds by controlling several sound generators from one keyboard. | | | A MIDI master may be a keyboard or other instrument, or it may be a sequencer. | | | The most obvious benefit is to create layered sounds by slaving several tone generators to one keyboard. |
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| | Keyboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Musical keyboard, a keyboard on a musical instrument | | | Keyboard synthesizer, a keyboard used to create synthetic musical sounds | | | Alphanumeric keyboard, any keyboard that has both letter and numbers on it |
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| | Keyboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Musical keyboard, a keyboard on a musical instrument | | | Keyboard synthesizer, a keyboard used to create synthetic musical sounds | | | Look up Keyboard on Wiktionary, the free dictionary |
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| | Macworld: Review: Unity DS-1 |
| | Thanks to the increasingly powerful processors in today's computers–and the talents of a few software engineers–modern Macs can be transformed into musical machines. | | | The line between computer and musical instrument is getting less distinct by the minute. | | | For example, the A-flat played by a trumpet can be recorded, digitized, loaded into a sampler's memory, and triggered by a MIDI keyboard. |
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| | Sampler (musical instrument) |
| | A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that uses stored audio signal sampless, generally recordings of existing sounds, and plays them back at a range of pitches. | | | An early form of sampler was an instrument called the 'Mellotron' (later Novatron due to licensing issues) which used individual pre-recorded tape loops, one under each key on the keyboard. | | | The operating system was software based and allowed for upgrades that had to be booted each time the sampler was switched on. |
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| | Artificial musician |
| | The program, running on a Macintosh equipped with a MIDI interface, "listens" to a person playing another MIDI instrument--for example, a keyboard or a MIDI-miked violin--and uses artificially intelligent rules to figure out how to stick to the score while keeping up with the live performer. | | | The advent of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), an interface that lets electronic instruments talk to a computer, has revolutionized music composition. | | | (Musical Instrument Digital Interface, Artificially Intelligent Computer Performer) (Column) |
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| | SEKSO - Instrument links |
| | HPSCHD-L is an electronic mailing list devoted to early stringed keyboard instruments: harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos, virginals, and all similar instruments except the modern piano. | | | Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society is a non-profit, regional organization committed to the promotion of interest in and the study of early keyboard instruments, principally harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, and organ prior to 1860, and the music intended for these instruments. | | | Instrument Encyclopedia - A sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments |
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| | The most common MIDI instrument is a keyboard synthesizer, but any instrument may be duplicated if an engineer can find a way to make an electronic version. | | | The Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is a digital communication protocol and hardware specification that allows electronic instruments, controllers, and computers to talk to one another. | | | The final option is for the musician to write the music using the sequencer's software and then let the sequencer interpret the musical notation and turn it into MIDI codes. |
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| | VP-70 voice processor |
| | Although a keyboard is used to illustrate this feature, the situation in the internal memory is identical for other inputs. | | | 1, the keyboard plays C4, E4, and G4, but the output is F4, A4, and C3. | | | If the keyboard sound is also audible, the vocal section any keyboard chords are in unison, allowing one performer to create a world of rich sound. |
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| | MIDI |
| | f you play piano well at all, you will want to use MIDI ("Musical Instrument Digital Interface") to record your music into the computer. | | | These function sort of like digital recorders that only record a few seconds of a sound (a "sample") and then map the resulting 'recordings' to MIDI note values so that the sampled sound can be played on a MIDI keyboard or whatever. | | | This is a type of program that accepts MIDI controller messages and uses the computer to play back stored sounds. |
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| | Velocity sensing trigger interface for musical instrument - Patent 5824938 |
| | Musical instruments, such as electronic drums, electronic keyboards, keypad actuated sampling devices, and the like, have been used widely for several years. | | | Conventionally, the musical instrument includes a drum pad or keypad which is used to actuate a switch which, in turn, triggers the generation of a sound corresponding to that drum pad or keypad. | | | More sophisticated musical instruments also sense the velocity of the depression of the drum pad or keypad by the musician and this velocity data is used to appropriately modify the timbre, amplitude, and other characteristics of the generated sound. |
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| | Musical Instrument Digital Interface - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review |
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| | Keyboard Volume Pedals - Find, Compare, and Buy at Shopping.com |
| | You found 80 products in Musical Instruments "Keyboard Volume Pedals" | | | Never before has there been a better compact keyboard for use with popular sequencers and software... | | | 8 assignable faders., The Edirol PCR-50 keyboard the most advanced 49-key MIDI keyboard controller available. |
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| | Musical keyboard - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Musical keyboard |
| | Keyboard instruments were designed so that musical intervals could always be reproduced accurately. | | | Instrument makers seized on the user-friendly keyboard mechanism to create new markets for amateur and domestic use, creating in the clavichord a mechanized plectrum guitar, in the harpsichord a mechanized lute, in the hurdy-gurdy a keyboard viol, and in the fortepiano a mechanized dulcimer. | | | Adding the keyboard to the clavichord gave the instrument a greater flexibility and reliability of pitch and was important in showing the relationship of string length to pitch. |
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| | Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments |
| | Contact, Enquiries and Special Visits :: Courses of Study in Musical Instrument Research :: Postgraduate Doctoral Study in Keyboard Organology | | | Link to The Galpin Society for the study of musical instruments [with links to publications about musical instruments] | | | Link to The Georgian Concert Society [with programme of concerts at St Cecilia's Hall using early keyboard instruments from the Raymond Russell Collection] |
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