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Pad or PAD may refer to:
- Writing pad (disambiguation), a book of paper, or an electronic equivalent
- Sanitary pad, a device worn by a woman during menstruation
- Pad (music), a type of synthesized sound
- Part of a mammal's paw
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Transportation [link]
- Launch pad, an area where spacecraft lifts off
- Helicopter landing pad
- London Paddington station, station code PAD
- Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, IATA code PAD
Sports gear [link]
- Pads, specialized equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey
- Elbow pads
- Knee pads
- Shoulder pads
Computing and electronics [link]
- Touchpad
- ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo
- iPad, a tablet computer from Apple Inc.
- Graphics pad, a computer input device
- Control pad, a type of game controller
- Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum
- Packet Assembler/Disassembler, a communications device
- Portable Application Description, a document format
- PAD, a control character in the C1 control code set
- Components of an attenuator, an electronic device
- Contact pads, designated surface areas for electrical contacts
- Pulsed Amperometric Detection
Other uses [link]
- PAD emotional state model, psychological model based on Pleasure, Arousal and Dominance
- People's Alliance for Democracy, a Thailand political group
- People's Action for Development, an Indian NGO
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peter Allen David, American writer
- Phi Alpha Delta, a fraternity
- Poker After Dark, a television series
- Pre-Authorized Debit
- Pre-Operative Autologous Donation, when a patient's own blood is taken for possible use during surgery
- Prithvi Air Defence, a missile
- Program-associated data, a type of broadcast information
- Punjab Archaeology Department
- Pád, the Hungarian name for Spini village, Turdaş Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
- Part of the mantra Om mani padme hum
- Drill floor, also called a drilling pad or just a pad.
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Synthesizer
A sound synthesizer (usually abbreviated as "synthesizer" or "synth", also spelled "synthesiser") is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones. Synthesizers may either imitate the still existing sounds (instruments, vocal, natural sound, etc.), or generate new electronic timbres not existing before. They are often played with a musical keyboard, but they can be controlled via a variety of other input devices, including music sequencers, instrument controllers, fingerboards, guitar synthesizers, wind controllers, and electronic drums. Synthesizers without built-in controllers are often called sound modules, and are controlled via MIDI or CV/Gate using a controller device.
Synthesizers use various methods to generate signal. Among the most popular waveform synthesis techniques are subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, wavetable synthesis, frequency modulation synthesis, phase distortion synthesis, physical modeling synthesis and sample-based synthesis. Other less common synthesis types (see #Types of synthesis) include subharmonic synthesis, a form of additive synthesis via subharmonics (used by mixture trautonium), and granular synthesis, sample-based synthesis based on grains of sound, generally resulting in soundscapes or clouds.
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