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"Synthesizer" is a rather loose term and I'm as guilty as anyone of using it Reeves without clarification. In one aspect, everything I do is via a synthesizer - that is, 24 every note you hear has been through some kind of digital manipulation on my Serendipitous Synthesizer computers and audio gear. Studio 3/16/2019 My stalwart grand piano is a huge file on the "big computer" of digitally recorded sounds from a real concert grand Steinway. When I press a key, rather 1 Walk of Life • Dire Straits • 3:44 than setting strings to vibrating on a cast iron sound board, I'm actually sending a 2 Key Largo • Bertie Higgins • 3:21 digital signal to my arrayed computers to direct a particular snippet of digital 3 All Night Long • Lionel Richie • 6:22 audio via a circuitous route to my monitor speakers. In short, via digital 4 I'd Really Love to See You Tonight • recordings, I'm "synthesizing" the sound. England Dan and John Ford Coley • 2:34 When you hear a string section passage, it may have come from similar digital 5 Come a Little Bit Closer • Jay and The Americans • 2:51 recordings, or it might be totally created mathematically on the fly. A 6 I Just Called to Say I Love You • Stevie Wonder • 4:12 synthesized instrument sound starts off as a pure tone at an exact frequency. A 7 I'm Alive • Electric Light Orchestra • 3:29 synthesizer uses a set of rules for each instrument to create overtones, add 8 Traces • The Classics IV • 3:21 filtering, shape the attack and decay, even to add distortion until the much 9 Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now • Jefferson Airplane • 3:51 modified pure tone mimics the sound of the real instrument. 10 Puff the Magic Dragon • Peter, Paul, and Mary • 3:16 Some songs do use a "real" synthesizer. The signature sound of Van Halen's 11 Straight On • Heart • 4:32 Jump on my fifth album is from a sawtooth waveform generator. 12 Two Out of Three Ain't Bad • Meatloaf • 5:26 13 The Letter • The Box Tops • 3:05 The reason I bring this up is that almost every song on this album uses some form of "real" synthesizer sounds. It wasn't by intent and I didn't even realize it 14 You Are the Sunshine of My Life • Stevie Wonder • 3:14 until I had the album assembled and was previewing it to adjust recording levels. 15 Alone • Heart • 3:38 Serendipity strikes again! 16 Brandy • Looking Glass • 3:09 17 We Built This City • Jefferson Airplane • 4:44 Reeves 18 Stuck on You • Lionel Richie • 3:17 19 All Over the World • Electric Light Orchestra • 3:25 www.Reeves-Music.com Copyright 2019 Reeves Music - All Rights Reserved Permission is hereby granted to allow the duplication of this album cover graphic for the purpose of inclusion in a jewel case to hold the associated pre-recorded album compact disc purchased from Reeves Music. www.Reeves-Music.com Copyright 2019 Reeves Music - All Rights Reserved.