Talk:Roland Jupiter-8

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What is an "an arpeggiator"?

Tabletop 01:23, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

An arpeggiator is a device that plays arpeggios.

What are arpeggios? Arpeggio is a musical term that describes the notes of a chord being played one at time.

Usually, all the notes of a chord are played at one time. A synthesizer arpeggiator allowed the user to hold the chord on the keyboard.

The arpeggiator would then play back the notes, one at time, in a manner specified by the user. This is difficult to describe on paper...I wish I could give you a sound demonstration.