Synthesisers all have their differences and their similarities. One crucial way to tell the difference and categorise different instruments is by the type of synthesis they employ.
The history of these synthesis methods runs parallel to the development of the synth as a serious instrument, and to the development of sound and music itself.
Early synthesisers were chaotic and modular, but the first ‘small’ instruments, such as the Minimoog, offered a ‘subtractive’ synthesis type where a
