English

Noun

synthesist ‎(plural synthesists)

1. One who synthesizes.
   • 2006, Peter Lavezzoli, The dawn of Indian music in the West: Bhairavi (page 163)

     By taking widely disparate streams that haven't been formally in contact with each other, you become a synthesist and create new forms.

2. A musician who plays a synthesizer.
   • 2006, Evan Selinger, Postphenomenology: a critical companion to Ihde (page 61)

     None of these had the artistry of Carlos and often used the Moog to play a solo line from a standard pop tune. None were hits. The use of the synthesizer for emulation was, as I have said, rejected by many early synthesists.