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The instrument also has many features like envelopes for filter and amplifiers so that sounds can be contoured at the user's discretion, making it the first production analog synthesizer. In 1941, Georges Jenny's previously prototyped Ondioline became the first truly portable synthesizer keyboard [11] (the Novachord weighed over 500 pounds (230 ...
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.
First duophonic synthesizer (capable of playing two notes at once) [5] 1975 Moog Music: Polymoog [17] 1969 EMS: VCS3 [5] 1976 Yamaha: CS-80 [5] 1978 Korg: MS-20 [5] 1981 PPG: Wave [5] 1991 Korg: 01/W [18] 1997 Propellerhead Software: ReBirth: One of the first software synthesizers that could be played in real time via MIDI [19] 1996 Roland: JP-8000
[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 ...
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.
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 ...
The first was the Denis d'or stringed instrument, [5] made by Václav Prokop Diviš in 1748, [6] with 700 electrified strings. In 1760, Jean Baptiste Thillaie de Laborde introduced the clavecin électrique , an electrically activated keyboard without sound creation.
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 ...