Moog-synthesizer

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

Moog-synthesizer · From 1964 in Trumansburg, Robert Moog built synthesizers from separate modules that you connected with patch cords. An oscillator makes a tone, a filter removes overtones from it, an envelope determines how the tone starts and dies away. The modules control one another with electrical voltage. In 1968, with Switched-On Bach, Wendy Carlos showed what the instrument could do, and the album was an enormous success. After that, rock bands used the Moog for solos and new tone colours. The characteristic sound lies above all in the filter, which makes a tone ‘open up’.

Listening

• 
  Strange Days · The Doors, 1967
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  Here Comes the Sun · The Beatles, 1969
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  Lucky Man · Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1970

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See also

• Minimoog
• Theremin
• Moog and the first synthesizer pop
• Progressive rock
• Synthesizer orchestra, ambient and new age