MUSIC 151 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Desperately Seeking Susan, Little Red Corvette, Speed Metal
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One of the instruments commonly attributed to the 80s sound is the synthesizer, a keyboard instrument that creates sounds electronically. It has the ability to accurately re-create the sound of acoustic instruments or generate new tone colors. Although the synthesizer had been around for decades, due to its size, it did not become practical for performances until the 1960s when. Robert moog and don buchla developed modular synthesizers (independently of one another). Synthesizers of the 1950s required a room full of components to perform the most simple tasks. In the 1960s, moog and buchla developed their modular synthesizer units that did not require binary computer programming to create electronic music sounds. In 1982, roger linn created the linn drum machine that used computer technology to digitally replicate the sounds of a drum kit. Linn drum machines allowed a programmer to create drum patterns and play them back automatically.
