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Contemporary Keyboard
January/February 1976
Waveforms, Spectra, and Oscillators, Part I
Bob Moog
The Oscillator.
An oscillator is a circuit that produces a regularly repeating waveform. When used as the signal source of an audio path, an oscillator determines the pitch of the sound.
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Contemporary Keyboard
March/April 1976
Waveforms, Spectra And Oscillators, Part II
Bob Moog
In last issue's column, I talked about two ways of describing a steady, pitched sound: by its waveform (graph of the vibration in time), or by its spectrum (a list of the strengths of the harmonics). Synthesizer oscillators produce simple waveforms whose spectra turn out to be musically useful.
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East Aurora Advertiser
April 22, 1976
Moog Synthesizer Concert To Benefit School Tour
Ask the average person what he knows about a Moog Synthesizer, and he'll probably respond with "a what?" But there are probably very few people who haven't heard sounds produced by this electric marvel developed by Dr. Robert Moog of East Aurora.
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Contemporary Keyboard
May/June 1976
Low-Pass Filters
Bob Moog
Filters are barriers that allow some things to pass while inhibiting the flow of others. Homely examples are the coffee filter, which holds the grounds back while permitting the flow of brewed coffee, and tinted glass, which impedes the harsher components of sunlight without completely stopping the light.
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Contemporary Keyboard
August 1976
Bob Moog On Synthesizers
Answers to Readers' Questions
As announced in my column in the March/April issue, I'm devoting this column to answering some reader questions. Next issue I'll be returning to more general topics.
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Contemporary Keyboard
October 1976
Modulation, Part I
Bob Moog
Modulation in electronic music is the use of one waveform (the control) to shape or texture a property of another wave-form (the modulated signal).
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Music Journal
November 1976
Day of the Instrument Interface
By Robert Moog
In thinking about the future of electronic music, I keep returning to two cherished bits of memory. The first is a short conversation that I had in 1964 with the technical director of a prominent classical electronic music studio.
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Contemporary Keyboard
December 1976
Modulation, Part II: Vibrato
Bob Moog
This column deals with some of the fine points of vibrato, an important musical effect that may be achieved with frequency modulation. The basic patch is shown below.
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