What instruments are suitable for playing electric music?

Rubber percussion pad instruments are suitable for playing electric music. Synthesizers are usually equipped with keyboards in a traditional piano keyboard arrangement, and samplers are usually equipped with rubber percussion pads. Both synthesizers and samplers can be designed with timbres, and both come in software and hardware versions. The main sources of sound for electronic music are synthesizers, which generate their own sounds, and samplers, which play pre-recorded and edited sounds.

Electronic music is music that is produced using electronic musical instruments as well as electronic music technology; and the musicians who create or perform such music are called electronic musicians. Generally, a distinction can be made between sounds produced using electro-mechanical techniques and those produced using electronic techniques.

Devices that use electro-mechanical sound production include the electric reed organ, the Hammond organ, and the electric guitar, while purely electronic sound production devices include the Tremolo organ, sound synthesizers, and computers.

Electronic music was once almost exclusively associated with Western, and particularly European, art music, but since the late 1960s, Moore's Law has created affordable music technology, meaning that the use of electronic means of making music has become increasingly popular and widespread in different regions of the world.