Modern music would probably sound very different without Bob Moog, Peter Vogel and David Smith. In the1960s, 1970s and 1980s, theirground-breaking work in musical technology led to three inventions that gave pop, rock and classical musicians unprecedented creative freedom: the synthesiser, the sampler and MIDI. Mick Hamer talked to the three pioneers to explore what lay behind this marriage between electronics and music.
Bob Moog
After studying electrical engineering in New York, Bob Moog did a PhD in physics at Cornell University. He is best known for inventing the first commercial synthesiser, the Moog
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