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"
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