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- In 1965, Robert Moog invented the Moog synthesizer, an electronic keyboard that creates otherworldly sounding electronic music.
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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.
Mar 31, 2024 · The Buchla synthesizer, developed by the American scientist Donald Buchla, was activated by a “keyboard” that was a touch-sensitive metal plate without movable keys, somewhat comparable to a violin fingerboard.
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Aug 23, 2005 · Robert Moog: Music Pioneer. August 23, 200512:00 AM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Listen. In 1965, Robert Moog invented the Moog synthesizer, an electronic keyboard that creates otherworldly...
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.
Apr 4, 2022 · In 1974, American engineer Tom Oberheim founded Oberheim Electronics and unveiled the SEM (short for “synthesizer expansion module”), which had a simple voice architecture but a characteristic warm sound, along with a highly flexible 12 dB per octave multi-mode filter. Multiple SEMs were later coupled with a keyboard and a sequencer to ...
Jul 13, 2021 · Robert Moog and Don Buchla invented the synthesizer, each working on separate coasts of the United States in the 1960s, giving way to two well-known approaches to electronic instrument design.
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...