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Analog Synthesizer

Moog · subtractive synthesis · 1964

Voltage-controlled oscillators generate raw sawtooth and square waves; the famous Moog ladder filter sculpts their harmonics; envelopes and LFOs animate the whole thing. The sound of electronic music after 1967.

Key specifications

Inventor

Robert Moog, 1964

Architecture

VCO → VCF → VCA

Filter

24 dB/oct ladder

Modulation

LFO + ADSR envelopes

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Analog Synthesizer
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