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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.
[11] [12] It was the first synthesizer sold in music stores, [6] and was more practical for live performance. It standardized the concept of synthesizers as self-contained instruments with built-in keyboards. [13] [14] In the early 1970s, the British composer Ken Freeman introduced the first string synthesizer, designed to emulate string ...
The Moog synthesizer (/ ˈ m oʊ ɡ / MOHG) is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. Moog's company, R. A. Moog Co., produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 2014. It was the first commercial synthesizer and established the analog synthesizer concept.
Also in 1983, Dave Smith's company marketed the first polyphonic synthesizer keyboard that could play more than one sound at a time called the 'Six-Trak'. [22] It had a six track sequencer and each track could access a different sound. The same year the SCI Pooppit T8 with optical key sensing became the first piano action emulating MIDI keyboard.
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 ...
Yamaha PSR-290 electronic keyboard A MIDI song played on a Casio electronic keyboard. An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. [1] Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations.
The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray. [5] [6] The "Musical Telegraph" was a chance by-product of his telephone technology when Gray discovered that he could control sound from a self-vibrating electromagnetic circuit and so invented a basic oscillator. The Musical Telegraph used steel reeds oscillated by ...
The earliest known keyboard instrument was the Ancient Greek hydraulis, a type of pipe organ invented in the third century BC. [2] The keys were likely balanced and could be played with a light touch, as is clear from the reference in a Latin poem by Claudian (late 4th century), who says magna levi detrudens murmura tactu . . . intonet, that is "let him thunder forth as he presses out mighty ...