Application of Digital Technology in Electronic Music Instrument Design

Abstract

The characteristics of electronic musical instruments determine that their development is inseparable from the development of electronic technology. At the end of the 20th century, computer technology began to profoundly affect the work progress of sound design. From analog sound signal synthesis in the late World War II, to digital control of analog sound signal synthesis in the 1980s, then came to today’s pure digital synthesis. The design of electronic musical instruments has fully entered the digital times. This article mainly reviews the history of the development of electronic technology and electronic musical instruments, explores its development trajectory, and proposes new ideas of electronic musical instruments’ digital technology design in its future development by combining with the actual work cases of the author’s.