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In 1974, Roland Corporation released the EP-30, the first touch-sensitive keyboard. [13] Roland also released early polyphonic string synthesizers, the RS-101 in 1975 and the RS-202 in 1976. [14] [15] In 1975, the turn towards building a synthesizer of sorts over an organ came to fruition in Moog's Polymoog. Many patents exist from this keyboard.
Robert Arthur Moog (/ m oʊ ɡ / 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.
The DX7 was the first synthesizer to sell more than 100,000 units [9]: 57 and remains one of the bestselling in history. [21] [23] It was widely used in 1980s pop music. [24] Digital synthesizers typically contained preset sounds emulating acoustic instruments, with algorithms controlled with menus and buttons. [6]
He purchased a Minimoog in 1972 and later built his own analog sequencer, founding Sequential Circuits in 1974 and advertising his product for sale in Rolling Stone. [5] [6] By 1977 he was working at Sequential full-time, and later that year he designed the Prophet-5, the world's first microprocessor-based musical instrument and also the first programmable polyphonic synth, [7] an innovation ...
The first order for a complete Moog synthesizer, for which Moog had to design a keyboard and cabinet, came from the composer Eric Siday. [3] With no books and no way to save or share settings, early users had to learn how to use the synthesizer themselves, by word of mouth, or from seminars held by Moog and Deutsch. [1]
Synthesizer Notes Ref. 1963 Buchla: Buchla Model 100 Series [1] 1965 Moog Music: Moog synthesizer: First commercial synthesizer [2] 1970 Moog Music: Minimoog: First synthesizer sold in retail stores [3] [4] 1970 Buchla: Buchla Series 200 [1] 1978 Sequential Circuits: Prophet-5: First fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer [5] 2008 Dave Smith ...
Robert Moog with a variety of his own synthesizers Herbert Deutsch, collaborator and friend of Robert Moog. Robert Moog founded R. A. Moog Co. with his father in 1953 at the age of 19, building and selling theremin kits and theremins by mail order first from his parents' home in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City and, after he married, in his own home in Ithaca, before ...
Inventor of the first "keytar", the Syntar George Mattson (born October 1954) is an American inventor, and is an early pioneer in electronic music synthesizer technology. He is credited with the invention of the Syntar, the first fully self-contained " keytar ", in 1978, and is founder and owner of Mattson Mini Modular.