If the musical setting is related to a particular culture or geographical area, appropriate instrumentation is necessary. Selecting a trumpet as the instrumentation for creating a composition with a Caribbean island's feel does not match. The steel drum or marimba would be a more characteristic sound from that area. If the composition is in a particular style, such as jazz, a trio of piano, bass and drums with a trumpet or sax playing the melody would be suitable instrumentation. The advertising industry is very conscious of the relationship between music creating an idea or feeling and selling a product.
Research guides the selection of the right instruments and music to portray a product.
This is just one topic discussed in sound exploration. More technical aspects, such as actual sound production and editing on the keyboard, are introduced in more advanced classes. This allows the students to do multi-track recording on the computer. Software, used with the synthesizer, provides the students with choices of hundreds of sounds. The more sounds the students have to work with, the more creative the environment.