TT_Lab wrote:What Akai call it is irrelevant. Marketing is marketing.
Pretty sure AKAI knows better than anyone, what a synthesizer is, they've been making synthesizers for more than 40 years.
Furthermore more, a sample play back electronic music device IS technically a synthesizer, using samples as oscillators in a subtractive synthesis architecture.
Maybe it's time for you to learn what the definition of a synthesizer is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SynthesizerA synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser)[1] is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and frequency modulation synthesis.
Synthesizers generate audio through various forms of analogue and digital synthesis [...] In sample-based synthesis, instead of sounds being created by synthesizers, samples (digital recordings of sounds) are played back and shaped with components such as filters, envelopes and LFOs.[60]
Actually it's probably marketing that impaired your understanding of what a synthesizer is at first place. All MPC are synthesizers, even when not marketed as such.
what do you have in response to sourced arguments? your unsourced opinions...