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synth

American  
[sinth] / sɪnθ /

noun

  1. Informal. synthesizer.

  2. synthpop.


synth British  
/ sɪnθ /

noun

  1. short for synthesizer

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The opening “Really Real” starts with a percolating synth line and muted bass thump, and at the conclusion of the surging chorus hook she sings “We’re splitting up reality / And I slip out through the crack in between it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Tap in a few text descriptors—male blues vocal, 80s synth pop with dark romance, death metal with accordion—and out comes an AI produced song within a matter of minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal

He also holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest "drone synth", capable of producing 1,000 separate tones.

From BBC

The synth, which takes up the entire wall of a room, lives in a museum that Battle owns and operates in Kent, alongside other experimental and outmoded musical instruments including a 100-year-old church organ the musician has restored by hand.

From BBC

As the Daft Punk synth grows louder, Yasmin and Harper kiss under the dance floor’s blue and yellow lights.

From Salon