modulator

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Noun

modulator (plural modulators)

1. A person who modulates.
2. A device or thing that modulates.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.

3. (music) A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.

Translations

• French: modulateur
• German: Modulator
• Italian: modulatore
• Russian: модуля́тор

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