How to Use synthesizer in a Sentence

synthesizer

noun
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  • The band used a synthesizer for the drumbeat.
  • His boards and synthesizers have helped shape the sound of this band and keep it sizzling since 1979.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • His synthesizer adds sounds, like from a trumpet, to the mix.
    — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The track opens with sustained notes on a synthesizer, a gentle flood of melody.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Name Eugene Hütz Best known for Known as a man who is a synthesizer.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 26 May 2023
  • Everybody thinks of the ’80s as the era of the synthesizer, but for the first few years of the decade, synth technology was still stuck in the ’70s—strictly analog.
    — Jim Allen, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Typical hallmarks of house are found all over the song, from piano stabs to the use of the Korg M1 synthesizer.
    — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 28 June 2022
  • Lastly, Britell is a hip-hop beat maker and layers the theme song with a cheesy 1990s synthesizer beat.
    — Delia Casadei, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
  • The soundtrack stands out for its groundbreaking in his use of a Moog synthesizer.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Young women on streetcorners bring out sitars and synthesizers and big wooden drums, the better to get the crowd dancing the young men’s way.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 29 Dec. 2019
  • One doll is placed in a permanent split, stretched across a Moog synthesizer.
    — Maria Sherman, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • This app completely replicates the best parts of Korg’s freely playable synth, putting a nearly $300 synthesizer in the palm of your hand.
    — Mallory Johns, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The song is a deeply annoying earworm that sounds like a preset on a toy synthesizer.
    — Matthew Schnipper, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • VanderWaal asked, scanning the room: a synthesizer, a six-string bass, a mandolin, and a lot of throw pillows.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • And this guy made these Indian ragas on like a Roland 303 and a Jupiter-8 and some other synthesizers.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2023
  • In the case is Miller’s Roland synthesizer and an Echoplex tape delay machine slightly larger than a shoe box.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Emotive and long-haired stadium rock is out; synthesizers, hair gel, and neon are in.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Robots are placing ornaments on a tree and sitting at a synthesizer ready to play the carol of your choice at the push of a button.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The duo recounts their whirlwind year in front of a bank of synthesizers in their Capitol Hill studio apartment.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 2 Dec. 2019
  • And also, Roger Troutman who passed away, was also a great synthesizer through the talk box player.
    — Pam Windsor, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Isham is a trumpeter and synthesizer player who has scored dozens of films since 1983, including Nell and Crash.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Each of these tasks invokes a simple tool—an internet search, a voice synthesizer, a bank app—and the LLM scripts the sequence of actions using the tools.
    — Bruce Schneier, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Gwen’s got this very nimble, balletic, floaty synthesizer style, which is quite nice to drop on top.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2023
  • Set to a throbbing bass line and synthesizers, the new song lyrics don’t beg a negligent suitor to pay attention to them.
    — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
  • You are carried along not by a rhythm track but by the flickers of Sanders’s horn, the distant sound of a synthesizer, string crescendos suggesting a light just past the horizon.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The X-rays from Chandra sound like a synthesizer, Spitzer’s infrared data are the strings, and optical light from Hubble has bell-like tones.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
  • In 1967, with his music partner Paul Beaver, Krause introduced the Moog synthesizer to pop music and film.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The optional Sport exhaust can be paired with a two-stage synthesizer that fills the cabin with even rowdier vibes.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Hip-hop artists have long embraced the use of digital tools such as drum machines, turntables and synthesizers.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Special guest member Slade, Maines' son, will play acoustic and electric guitar and synthesizer at the shows.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2022

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