modulator

Etymology

modulate + -or

noun

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

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