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Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog
synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a
generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog Company
pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems in the early 1950s. The
technological development that led to the creation of the Moog synthesizer was
the invention of the transistor,
which enabled researchers like Moog to build electronic music systems that were
considerably smaller, cheaper and far more reliable than earlier vacuum tube-based systems.
The
Moog synthesizer began to gain wider attention in the music industry after it
was demonstrated at the Monterey
International Pop Festival in
1967. The commercial breakthrough of a Moog recording was made by Wendy Carlos in the 1968 record Switched-On Bach, which became
one of the highest-selling classical
music recordings of its era. The success of Switched-On Bach sparked a slew of other synthesizer
records in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. In 1974 the German electronic group Kraftwerk further popularized the
sound of the synthesizer with their landmark album Autobahn, which used several
types of synthesizer including a Minimoog. German-based Italian
producer-composer Giorgio Moroder helped to shape the development of disco music.
Later
Moog modular systems featured improvements, such as a scaled-down, simplified,
self-contained musical instrument designed for use in live performance. The
Minimoog became the most popular monophonic synthesizer of the 1970s, and it was
quickly taken up by leading rock and electronic music groups such as Yes and Tangerine Dream.
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