harry's lexicon

Limiter

a circuit that allows signals below a specified input power to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals that exceed this input power

synthesizer

1. an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies
2. There are three main types of synthesizers, which differ in operation: analog, digital and software-based
3. A modern digital synthesizer uses a frequency synthesizer microprocessor component to calculate mathematical functions, which generate signals of different frequencies
4. 
   Both the Roland Jupiter-4 and Jupiter-8 synthesizers were used by New Wave band Duran Duran during the early 1980s