So, the commercial market was still hungry. The drawback? The CMI would have removed $20,000 from your pocket. This made history as an era where synth engines began to fundamentally change. The explosion of polyphonic synths is due to the age of digital because digital synths don’t need to house so much complicated circuitry… it’s all binary! The Dawn of DigitalĪlmost forty years ago, early digital synths such as the Fairlight CMI introduced digital sampling to the musical community. It was very expensive to build and house hardware that could route more than one voice through the signal chain, which meant it became harder and expensive to house more than one signal chain. Because of the complexity of this, they were mostly monophonic. They all relied on analog circuitry and control voltages.
When synthesizers first hit the market in the first half of the twentieth century, they were largely the same. Monophonic means only one note can be played at any one time, while polyphonic means multiple notes can be played at once. The two main types of synths available to us today are monophonic and polyphonic.
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