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| in Columbia/Princeton Studio |
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- created smaller synthesizers- not user friendly
- Keroff and Buchla
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| American, graduated from Columbia with engineer degree, became an engineer |
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| What did Moog do in his spare time? |
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| work on a synthesizer in his garage- 2 year project |
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| Who created the first portable synthesizer? |
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| first portable synthesizer |
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| How does Moog create his company? |
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takes synthesizer to international trade show and invites investors to invest in his and his company
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| Who takes synthesizers to international trade show? |
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| Who invites investors to invest in his and his company? |
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| monophonic- could only play one note at a time |
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| what instrument could only play one note at a time and what was this feature called? |
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| did not have memory, so they had to write everything down |
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| what did they have to do because the analog had no memory? |
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| reads code made up of 0s and 1s- binary so when you press a note it sends it to computer and reads it as C, perfect/"cold sound"= always same sound |
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| does an analog have a cold or warm sound? |
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| warm, it uses volts of electricity |
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| What does Walter Carlos do when he approaches Moog? |
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| creates a record using Bach's music to promote his synthesizer- "Switched on Bach- promoted the Moog synthe to the world. record goes Platinum- incredible well received |
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| Which of Bach's music is used to promote the Moog synthe? |
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| decides to become a woman- Wendy |
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| Moog invented the first portable prewired synthesizer |
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| first polyphonic synthesizer (could play one more note at a time) |
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| What does polyphonic mean and when was the first polyphonic synthesizer made? |
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| more than one note is able to be played at one time, 1975 |
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1970-1975
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| Oberheim and Sequential Circuits |
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| 1978- what is coming into the synthe industry? |
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| memory! -primative (old school, not advanced) |
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| sends information to another piece of equipment |
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synths are anolog and digital
call them hybrid synths |
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| synths that are analog and digital |
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| 1984- Hybrid synth bridges to . |
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| digital lynths, which leads into digital age |
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| what do digital synths lead into? |
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| late 80s and 90s- downfall of American synths companies |
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| selling to Japanese companies- Yamaha, Roeland |
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| late 80s and early 90s- downfall of |
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| American synths companies |
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1990s- all digital synthesizers
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| samplers- take any sounds and digitally record it |
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| we have some of the settings on electric pianos because of |
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| voltage controlled oscilator |
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| voltage controlled filter |
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| voltage controlled amplifier |
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special effects- left column
VCO- middle column, going from VCO1 to VCO4 as the rows go down
VCF- first 2 rows of right column
VCA- 3rd row of right column |
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| tune, wave forms, octave, level (can control each oscilator) |
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| attack 0-10, decay (decrease in volume), sustain, release (how long sound is) |
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| how you chang sound over time is shown in |
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| how you change sound over time |
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