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You are here: Home / Culture / Who Invented the First Keyboard Synthesizer and When Was the First Synthesizer Created?

Who Invented the First Keyboard Synthesizer and When Was the First Synthesizer Created?

May 16, 2020 by Karen Hill

Robert Moog built the first Moog synthesizer in 1964.

The electronic instrument was enormous and could play only one note at a time.

When Walter Carlos recorded Switched on Bach on it, he had to laboriously build Bach’s chords and counterpoint by repeatedly recording separate tracks on tape.

In 1970, advances in electronic miniaturization and computers led to a portable Moog synthesizer that could play chords, leading to a synthesizer boom in studio recordings and live performances.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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