Robert Moog created the first substractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller, and demonstrated it at the Audio Engineering Society convention in October 1964.
"The Moog synthesizer gained wider attention in the music industry after it was demonstrated at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. The commercial breakthrough of a Moog recording was made by Wendy Carlos in the 1968 record Switched-On Bach, which became one of the highest-selling classical music recordings of its era.
The Moog synthesizer became one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. It is a member of the quintephone family of musical instruments, which generate sounds "informatically."
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