Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song '81: How to Play the Synthesizer, artist - The Magnetic Fields. Album song 50 Song Memoir, in the genre ИндиDate of issue: 09.03.2017
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
'81: How to Play the Synthesizer |
| Take a single oscillator |
| Producing a drone |
| Send it to the wave shaper |
| Altering the tone |
| This can be a triangle |
| Sawtooth or a square |
| Modulate the pulse width |
| Nobody will care |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| Now go to the filter bank |
| Low, high, band or notch |
| Fiddle with the cutoff point |
| Pour yourself a Scotch |
| Modern filters oscillate |
| All by themselves |
| It sounds like you’re torturing |
| Little metal elves |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| Nextly, shape the envelope |
| AKA ADSR |
| Attack, delay, sustain, release |
| Which means how loud you are |
| One millisecond to the next |
| Whether you pluck or lurch |
| Or ooze like an organist |
| In a Venusian church |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| Now you play the synthesizer |
| Don’t be lazy now |
| Make it hiss like rattlesnakes |
| Or moo like a cow |
| Crash like a hundred marbles |
| Smashing on the floor |
| You can make a thousand sounds |
| Never heard before |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |
| This is how to play the synthesizer |