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Moog Model D history

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Moog Model D history

- [Narrator] Robert A. Moog was born in May, 1934 in New York. He was introduced to electronics by his father, who was an engineer. While he was a teenager, he discovered schematics for the theremin, invented during the 1930s by a Russian engineer, Leon Theremin, or more exactly, Lev Sergeyevich Termen. Seduced by this instrument, with its never before heard sounds, he began to produce his own models, and founded his company in 1954. One of the first clients to come to Robert Moog was the professor of music, Herbert A. Deutsch. Deutsch asked him to listen to a song that he had composed, and Bob Moog and Deutsch formed a partnership. Their cooperation produced a voltage-controlled oscillator. In 1964, the first prototype of a synthesizer designed by Bob Moog was produced. It was a modular system with a voltage-controlled filter, or VCF, an envelope generator, a white noise generator, a trigger, and two keyboards, each with a generator module, sawtooth triangle and square, as well as a…

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