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OTHER SIGNAL MODIFIERS

A system containing voltage-controlled oscillators, filters, and amplifiers represents a sophisticated electronic music setup. But there are other signal modifiers that are useful for specific functions and add a great deal of versatility to an electronic music studio. Some of these are:

Reverberators that artificially delay and decay a signal to simulate the effect of a sound bouncing off the walls of a large room. This effect can be accomplished in several ways but generally it is done by feeding the signal through springs or metal sheets coupled at both ends with special transducers.

Tape echo, a very precisely controlled delay system, bestows a sense of spaciousness, delay or repetition upon electronic music. It also ...