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Synthesizer vs Synth - What's the difference?

synthesizer | synth |

As nouns the difference between synthesizer and synth

is that synthesizer is (music) an electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard while synth is (slang) a musical synthesizer.

synthesizer

English

Alternative forms

* synthesiser (especially UK )

Noun

(wikipedia synthesizer) (en noun)
  • (music) An electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard.
  • (music) An electronic instrument module that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
  • (electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
  • (electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.

    • synth

    English

    Noun

    (synthesizer) (en noun)
  • (slang) A musical synthesizer.
    • English clippings