A lot of modular synthesizer players don't use keyboards. Some play their sequencers, some use their Kaoss pads as controllers, some their drum machines, and some use guitars. Not only that, but they break all the "rules" about what module can feed what module, unlike the limitations that a self-contained keyboard-based synthesizer places on the player.
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> I don't know.... Most synths have keyboards... A turntable has... A turntable with a record on it?
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> I used to get, "synthesizers are not an instrument." Fortunately not from my family, they bought me new headphones and slippers every christmas.
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> Oddly, my dad said the same thing when I played him "Bird Is The Word" by the Trashmen.
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> When I was 15 my father told me that Black Sabbath were not musicians and their stuff was not music it was noise. I have been tempted to say the same thing about some of the CRAP my son listens to. I try to keep an open mind but it's not always easy!
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> BSComm, BSEE, CG, ReRED, CSEC
> Audio Mastering, Recording & Logistics, Analog Sound Design
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