Moog IIIp

1 of 2 Moog Modulars

The Moog modular synthesiser was invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. His company, R. A. Moog Co. (later Moog Music), built modular systems from 1965 to 1981 and again from 2014, and they established the idea of the analogue synthesiser.

A Moog modular is made of separate modules that create and shape sound, connected with patch cords: voltage-controlled oscillators, amplifiers and filters, envelope generators, noise generators, ring modulators, triggers and mixers. It can be played from a keyboard, joysticks, pedals or ribbon controllers, or driven by a sequencer. The oscillators’ waveforms are filtered and modulated to shape the sound (subtractive synthesis), or used at low frequencies to control other modules.