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The aftertouch feature allows keyboard players to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck, the way that singers, wind players, or bowed instrument players can do. On some keyboards, sounds or synth voices have a preset pressure sensitivity effect, such as a swell in volume (mimicking a popular idiomatic style of vocal performance ...
Wheels and knobs: Used to add effects to a sound that are not present by default, such as vibrato, panning, envelope, tremolo, pitch bending, portamento and so on. A common control on contemporary keyboards is the pitch bend wheel, adjusting the pitch of a note usually in the range of 2 semitones.
Korg M1: PCM sample based dual oscillator synth engine, with built-in effects, sequencer and drum machine, the M1 introduced many to the concept of a music workstation, a keyboard that could handle live performance, MIDI, sequencing, expandable sound banks, effects, and more in a single package. The best-selling synthesizer of all time (with ...
The design of the key action mechanism determines the "weight" of the keys, i.e., the force required to sound a note; [2] [3] [4]: 91 that is, the feeling of the heaviness of the touch of the keys. [ need quotation to verify ] "A professional pianist is likely to care most about the piano's action, because that is what controls its ...
Chorus (or chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) is an audio effect that occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches, converge. While similar sounds coming from multiple sources can occur naturally, as in the case of a choir or string orchestra , it can also be simulated using an electronic effects ...
Four 1/4-inch control pedal jacks have configurable functions, including the ability to adjust patch volume, patch cutoff frequency, effects levels, organ speaker rotation simulation, stepping through patches, and so forth. There are three 5-pin MIDI ports (IN, OUT, and THRU).
The Kronos is a music workstation manufactured by Korg that combines nine different synthesizer sound engines with a sequencer, digital recorder, effects, a color touchscreen display and a keyboard. Korg's latest flagship synthesizer series at the time of its announcement, the Kronos series was announced at the winter NAMM Show in Anaheim ...
The orchestra hit has been identified as a "hip hop cliché". [4] In 1990, Musician magazine stated that Fairlight's ORCH5 sample was "the orchestral hit that was heard on every rap and techno-pop record of the early 1980s". [5] The orchestra hit has been described as popular music's equivalent to the Wilhelm scream, a sound effect widely used ...