Artphon Chorda
United States, Worldwide (Popular Music/Experimental Music) a portable, electronic smart synth, looper, and MPE MIDI controller with a touch-sensitive surface that can be played by tapping, strumming, tilting, or sliding to create beats, basslines, chords, and melodies for music production and portable creative jamming.
bass guitar
Worldwide (Popular Music) an electric plucked string instrument with four thick strings tuned one octave lower than a standard guitar,used in almost all modern popular music genres, including rock, pop, jazz, funk, and R&B.
drum machine
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Worldwide (Popular Music) an electronic instrument used to produce synthesized percussion sounds, used in hip-hop, electronic, and pop music production.
electric guitar
Worldwide (Popular Music) a solid or semi-hollow bodied stringed instrument that uses electromagnetic pickups to convert string vibrations into electrical signals for amplification, used in rock, blues, jazz, and pop music.
electronic drum kit
Worldwide (Popular Music) a set of digital pads and cymbals that trigger synthesized drum sounds, used in practice, recording, and performances in genres like electronic, pop, rock, and hip-hop.
electronic keyboard
Worldwide (Popular Music) a versatile digital instrument with piano-like keys that can produce a wide range of sounds and effects, used in pop, rock, jazz, electronic, and contemporary music performances and compositions.
finger drum pad
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United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, South Korea an electronic touchpad percussion controller that allows users to trigger drum sounds and samples with their fingertips, used in electronic, hip-hop, and live beat-making performances.
hammond organ
United States, United Kingdom an electric keyboard instrument with rotating tonewheels to generate electromagnetic signals, used in jazz, blues, gospel, and rock music.
Kaossilator
Japan, Worldwide (Popular Music), United States a touchpad-based synthesizer that allows for dynamic looping and real-time sound manipulation, used in electronic, experimental, and live performance music.
keytar
United States, Worldwide (Popular Music) a portable synthesizer or MIDI controller shaped like a guitar with a piano-like keyboard and a neck with expressive controls, used in Synth-pop, New Wave, Glam Rock, Funk, and modern Electronic Dance Music (EDM).
mellotron
United Kingdom, United States, Worldwide (Popular Music) an early electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape-replay keyboard that produces grainy, and "orchestral" sound. The precursor to the digital sampler, used in1960s and 70s progressive rock and psychedelic rock, orchestral, and experimental music.
minimoog
United States United Kingdom, Germany, Japan an analog monophonic synthesizer with three oscillators and a "ladder" filter to produce a powerful, warm sound, used in progressive rock, jazz fusion, funk, and electronic music.
omnichord
Japan, United States, United Kingdom an electronic accompaniment instrument with a touch-sensitive strumplate and chord buttons that allow users to trigger synthetic arpeggios and rhythmic backing tracks, used in indie pop, lo-fi, and experimental music.
otomatone
Japan, United States, South Korea, Worldwide an eighth note-shaped electronic synthesizer with a touch-sensitive ribbon controller and a squeezeable "mouth" that produces a sliding vocal-like tone, used in novelty performances, comedic internet covers, and experimental J-pop.
pocket synthesizer
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Japan, United States a compact, battery-powered rhythm machine with velocity-sensitive pads and a library of drum patterns, used in portable practice, as a songwriting tool, and backing track generator for instrumentalists.
Roland Aerophone
Japan, China, United States a digital wind instrument with traditional saxophone fingering and advanced breath-sensitive sensors that allows musicians to play a vast library of acoustic and synthesizer sounds, used in jazz, classical, pop, experimental, and electronic music.
sampler-based groovebox
Worldwide (Popular Music) an all-in-one electronic instrument that allows musicians to sequence, sample, and manipulate sounds for genres like hip-hop, EDM, experimental music, and live electronic performance.
Seaboard
United Kingdom, United States a MIDI controller and piano-keyboard style synthesizer interface with a continuous, pressure-sensitive surface made of silicone, allowing musicians to "shape" sound through touch, used in electronic, pop, and experimental music for expressive performances.
stylophone
United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Japan, Australia a miniature analog synthesizer that uses a battery-powered stylus to complete a circuit by touching a metal keyboard to sound specific pitches, used in novelty popular music, pop, and electronic music.
talk box
Worldwide (Popular Music) an effects pedal that feeds the sound of an instrument (usually a guitar or synthesizer) through a tube and into the musician's mouth, allowing them to shape the instrument's tone into vowel sounds and speech-like vocalizations, used in funk, rock, and pop music.
theramin
Russia, United States an early electronic instrument that uses two antennae to allow the player to control pitch and volume simply by moving their hands in the air without touching the device, used in horror film scores, avant-garde classical compositions, and psychedelic rock.
Turn table
United States, Worldwide a rotating platform that spins a vinyl record while a stylus tracks the grooves to reproduce sound, when used by a DJ (Turntablist) creates new sounds and rhythmic effects through techniques like scratching and beat juggling for hip-hop and dance music.
vocoder
United States, Worldwide an electronic device or software effect that analyzes the spectral content of the human voice and imposes that content onto a synthesizer or organ (called the carrier)to create robotic, singing-synthesizer voice effects, used in electronic dance music, funk, pop, and film soundtracks.