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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.
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. Mattson lives in the Seattle area.
Donald Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis.Buchla popularized the "West Coast" style of synthesis. He was co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer along with Robert Moog, the two working independently in the early 1960s.
Here’s all the Tar Heel state trivia the NYT crossword has featured from January through June. ... 14A: Pioneering synthesizer brand (Tuesday, Jan. 23) Moog Music is based in Asheville. TIM.
Synthesizer designer David Joseph Smith (April 2, 1950 – May 31, 2022) was an American engineer and founder of the synthesizer company Sequential . Smith created the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory, the Prophet-5 , which had a major impact on the music industry. [ 2 ]
The first commercial Moog synthesizer, commissioned by the Alwin Nikolais Dance Theater of NY in 1964. Experiments in tape manipulation or musique concrète, early computer music and early sampling and sound manipulation technologies paved the way for both manipulating and creating new sounds through technology.
Wolfgang Palm (born 1950) is a German musician and inventor who was the founder and owner of Palm Products GmbH (PPG) and the inventor and creator of various pioneering technical designs for analog and digital synthesizers.
Tom Oberheim at his workbench, 2010. Oberheim was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas, also the home of Kansas State University.Beginning in junior high school, he put his interest in electronics into practice by building hi-fi components and amplifiers for friends.