a device used in synthesizers to produce high-frequency sound effects
2.
a generator of electronic noise used to test equipment
Examples of 'noise generator' in a sentence
noise generator
A white-noise generator, worn like a hearing aid, plays a wide-band-frequency 'shushing' noise, which may be helpful.
The Sun (2014)
She used electronic oscillators, a white-noise generator and magnetic audio-tape editing, tape loops and reverse tape effects to create a new kind of sound.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It's the kind of film that confuses slow-motion with significance, and the score sounds like it was composed by an ominous noise generator.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
New electric cars will be fitted with noise generators from next year amid concerns that the silent vehicles pose a threat to pedestrians.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The government is working on plans that would require thousands of vehicles to be fitted with artificial noise generators to boost the engine note.