That’s the thing about these threads, just when you think you have established that hotdogs are sandwiches someone will just disagree again.
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Fuck me. Hot dogs are sandwiches???
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and breakfast cereal is soup! 
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Shit 
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Next thing you’re going to tell me is that my guitar is really a synth.
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Reposting a link is not a very strong argument. Certainly because we interpret the definition different clearly.
My apologies. I thought I had posted that link in the thread that prompted me to start this one. I didn’t realize it was a the top of this thread.
And yes, we interpret the definition differently, and that’s what makes the discussion interesting. 
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I wonder what @thermionic thinks about the inclusion/exclusion of thermionic technology (e.g. Novachord)
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That is a given. But you hardly answered my question. But I suggest you continue to answer every post with that same link rather then explaining your own thought process 
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Per which definition?
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Mokay. I’m out. Have a nice evening. This was fun while it lasted. Time to play with synthesizers. Maybe even with a digitakt + Rk-002 which really makes into a full fledged wave table synth 
Edit: when you get 2 avatars mixed up 
smiley faces. Sorry for this post haha. I blame fatherhood.
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And pizza is a vegetable. Obviously.
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wheat = vegetable
tomato = vegetable
cheese = not vegetable
score 2/3
verdict = synthesizer
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A pizza oven is a synthesizer
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I mean calling things what they seem subjectively is fun
Just sipping my lemon and sugar soup while typing on my inaudible piano in my indoor outhouse
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you might say our brain synthesizes our experience from our senses.
synthesizer, not synthesis . and it’s not my definition, someone else posted it claiming it excluded samplers which it clearly doesn’t.
That said, I think we are in the need of a post-structuralist deconstruction of the concept of a synthesizer to really get to the bottom of this.
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Basically, anybody can define anything as they like. Some definitions acquire normative power through social validation and institutionalization, but that does not make them essentially more true than others.
I think the key point is to understand what question someone seeks to answer with a particular definition. For example, if it is the difference between devices generating sound with oscillators vs. samples a useful definition may be different from the one that proves most useful in distinguishing mechanical from electronic sound generation.
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