'81: How to Play the Synthesizer

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Take a single oscillator producing a drone Send it to the waveshaper, altering the tone This can be a triangle, sawtooth, or a square Modulate the pulse width, nobody will care This is how to play the synthesizer This is "How to Play the Synthesizer" Now go to the filter bank: low, high, band, or notch Fiddle with the cutoff point, pour yourself a Scotch Modern filters oscillate all by themselves It sounds like you're torturing little metal elves... This is how to play the synthesizer This is "How to Play the Synthesizer" Nextly, shape the envelope, a/k/a ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, which means how loud you are One millisecond to the next: whether you pluck or lurch, Or ooze like an organist in a Venusian church... This is how to play the synthesizer This is "How to Play the Synthesizer" Now you play the synthesizer! Don't be lazy now Make it hiss like rattlesnakes, or moo like a cow Crash! like a hundred marbles smashing on the floor You can make a thousand sounds never heard before... This is how to play the synthesizer This is "How to Play the Synthesizer"