Revision as of 23:41, 4 June 2018 edit Clusternote (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 7,446 edits corrected the misleading descriptions in the view point of Roland Corporation. Tagged {{What?}, {{Who?}, {{citation needed}}, etc. ← Previous edit		Revision as of 16:34, 7 November 2019 edit undo 2a02:c7f:dab5:db00:5005:f37:dc58:1e5 (talk) →History Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Next edit →
Line 3: ==History== Before [[digital recording]] became Before [[digital recording]] became practical, instruments such as the Welte {{illm\|Lichtton Orgel\|de\|Lichttonorgel}} (1930s), [[Chromatic_phonogene\|phonogene]] (1950s) and the [[Mellotron]] (1960s) used analog [[optical disk]]s or analog tape decks to play back sampled sounds. When sample-based synthesis was first developed,{{When?\|date=June 2018}}{{Who?\|date=June 2018}} most affordable consumer synthesizers{{what?\|date=June 2018}} could not record arbitrary samples, but instead formed [[timbre]]s by combining pre-recorded samples from [[Read-only memory\|ROM]]{{citation needed\|date=June 2018}} before routing the result through [[analog (signal)\|analog]] or [[Digital data\|digital]] [[electronic filter\|filters]]. These synthesizers and their more complex descendants are often referred to as [[ROMpler\|ROMplers]].

Sample-based synthesis: Difference between revisions