Talk:Digital synthesizer

corrected ambiguity between softsynths, analogue synths, and dedicated digital synths. More clarification may be needed with software synths (perhaps another page?), and their DSP-driven counterparts... -- ND

The DX7 was NOT the first digital synth.
The first digital synth I can find a reference to is the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer. That was a single machine only, but Crumar released it commercially in 1980 as the DGS, and then in 1981 as the Synergy. The Synclavier was released 77/78 and even offered FM synthesis. All of these pre-date the DX7, which was released in 1983. Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:26, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Possibly you can find one of world 1st digital software synthesizer around MUSIC-N (ca.1957). On this system, also FM synthesis algorithm was discovered (ca.1967). --124.86.138.219 (talk) 01:46, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Allen Organ Company claims to have produced the first consumer-product digital &mdash; oh wait, organ, back in 1971. --Jerome Potts (talk) 13:19, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Early digital synth models
That section is poor. It claims Korg produced one of the first digital synths, and fails to mention a name. It then makes a claim that sounds rather like advertising.

The whole article needs more research and work. I am not qualified I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 15.195.201.90 (talk) 17:27, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Very poorly written and non technical
This has clearly been written by authors who are not of a technical background. What is missing is the clear distinction between Digital and Analogue sysnthesizers, namely that analogue synthesizers use analogue circuitry such as Voltage Controlled Oscillators to generate simple waveforms such as square waves and sawtooth waves and Voltage Controlled Filters to process the waveforms. Digital synthesizers operate entirely in the digital domain with the waveforms and aparent processing of them (such as FM) being derived mathematicaly from data. The data stream is converted to an analogue waveform by the use of DACs (Digital to Analogue Converters). Both digital and analogue synthesizers produce an analogue waveform (as a variable voltage electrical signal) at the outputs (i.e. the jack sockets). It is NOT done at the speakers as is stated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.126.6.205 (talk) 13:40, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Opening
I changed "sound waves" in the second sentence to "analog circuitry". Apart from being ridiculously unspecific, it was also inaccurate. There are no sound waves until the signal reaches a loudspeaker or headphones, at which point the sentence could apply just as much to a digital synth. I believe my edit is at least slightly more helpful but I'd love someone to improve upon it. eyeball226 (talk) 01:15, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Coverage of sampler topics
The lead indicates that a Sampler (musical instrument) is not a Digital synthesizer but the article covers some sampler products. Should this coverage be removed? ~Kvng (talk) 20:20, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Stuff that should be talked about in this article
I added a "See also" section and "Direct digital synthesis" into it and I'm not sure about it. This article should say that digital synthesizers use Direct digital synthesis as opposed to the Phase-locked loop used in analog synthesis. I'm not sure how I should edit the article to say that. I'm not good with that. I'm not confident about editing the article so it says that, because I'm not good at finding sources. But if the article is modified to include the info I mentioned about direct digital synthesis and phase-locked loop, then the "Direct digital synthesis" should be removed from the "See also" section. Update: I edited this Wikipedia article and added the stuff I wanted to be in there, and removed the "See also" section, but someone better find references and sources to the stuff I added. I would love to find references and sources but I'm not sure I will be able to. I don't feel good about the stuff I did - WorldQuestioneer (talk) 01:15, 16 January 2020 (UTC)