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External control. Computer keyboard. Light pen. CV/Gate (option, CMI II~) MIDI • SMPTE (CMI IIx~) The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight.
Apr 4, 2022 · A couple of instruments developed by German engineer Harald Bode established design principles that would become the foundation of the synthesizer as we know it today. His Warbo Formant Organ (1937) included switches for filter envelope shapes and a rudimentary method of providing preset voicings.
Robert Arthur Moog ( / moʊɡ / MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964.
In 1948, the Canadian engineer Hugh Le Caine completed the electronic sackbut, a precursor to voltage-controlled synthesizers, with keyboard sensitivity allowing for vibrato, glissando, and attack control. In 1957, Harry Olson and Herbert Belar completed the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer at the RCA laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey.
Nov 15, 2023 · One of the earliest pioneers of electronic music in Europe was the French composer, Maurice Martenot, who invented the Ondes Martenot, an early synthesizer, in the 1920s. Martenot’s invention allowed for the creation of otherworldly sounds that were not possible with traditional instruments.
Aug 22, 2005 · Listen. Karen Grigsby Bates remembers musical innovator Robert Moog, who died recently of a brain tumor at the age of 71. His signature creation, the Moog Synthesizer, transformed...
Dec 22, 2021 · The First Synthesizers. Many people will credit the first programmable synthesizer to RCA’s Mark II, but there was an earlier version that existed around the turn of the 20th century, a 7-ton machine that used motors to produce electricity and then turned them into sound via telephone receivers.
