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Voltage control made synthesisers playable

Robert Moog's modular system of 1964 let a keyboard shape a generated tone Modules for oscillators, filters and envelopes patched together with cables. Earlier electronic instruments were mostly one off laboratory devices. The portable Minimoog followed in 1970 and put the sound on stage. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Robert Moog's modular system of 1964 let a keyboard shape a generated tone. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.