String synthesizer

A string synthesizer is a synthesizer designed specifically to make sounds similar to that of a string ensemble. Dedicated string synthesizers occupied a specific musical instrument niche between electronic organs and general-purpose synthesizers for some time, until advances in synthesizer technology made the existence of a separate type of instrument unnecessary. The availability of string synthesizers was influential in adding string orchestration to popular music that would not otherwise be able to afford the use of a human string ensemble.