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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 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog ...
One of the first musicians to adopt the Minimoog happened to be jazz great Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, 1914-1993). The story behind this is an interesting one that began with a visit to Bob Moog’s plant in the fall of 1969. While several individual jazz artists of the early 1960s — including Roland Kirk, Bob James, and Gil Melle ...
1971 - R.A. MOOG CO. EVENTUALLY COMES TO BE CALLED MOOG MUSIC R.A. Moog Co. is in a state of economic peril. Bob begins looking for a business partner who can relieve the company?s $250,000 debt. Bill Waytena purchases the R.A. Moog Co. and moves it from Trumansburg to Williamsville, New York. Bob stays on and signs a non-compete contract ...
MOOG’s fascination with music began early; he started playing keyboards when he was 5 and one of his first projects was rearranging the notes of ‘Mary had a little lamb’ because “ I ...
Mar 16, 2006 · Here are the bullet points to the problem just so I don't ramble: -OSC3 low on all VCs; turning up OSC3 mixer section produces a squeal which leads into the note. Sometimes the OSC3 sounds like it's dying a slow death. Autotune will read the hex data from OSC1 and 2 but all OSC3 show dead osc. -OSC3 on the remaining cards will work if S12 is ...
This month marks the 45th anniversary of the Abbey Road recording sessions that found the Beatles experimenting in the studio with a brand new instrument: the Moog synthesizer. In the early weeks of August 1969, George Harrison brought his newly acquired Moog synthesizer into the studio to finish tracking on the Abbey Road sessions.
May 23, 2021 · Arun Starkey. Sun 23 May 2021 14:00, UK. Born on this day, May 23rd in 1934, Robert Arthur Moog would change the landscape of music forever. It is not ridiculous to posit that he affected modern music so significantly his impact is greater than any others. So far-reaching and transformative was his work that music today would literally not ...
