-- card: 36885 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 3551 -- name: -- part contents for background part 3 ----- text ----- sources -- part contents for background part 4 ----- text ----- general term for synthesizer functions that generate audio signals; every instrument has at least one source of sound (some type of vibrating body that is set in motion by the player; it may be a taut string, a bamboo reed, a stretched string, a column of air, or some other vibrating object that is responsible for the basic waveshape produced by an instrument).