Robert Moog

Dr. Robert A. Moog (pronounced /mo?g/, not /mu?g/) (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Moog: proposed unit of measure

Shortly after Bob Moog's death, it was proposed in his honor that the word Moog become the ANSI standard unit for expressing volts per octave. This term is used in reference to the exponentially-scaled voltage controlled oscillators found in analog synthesizers. The symbol is "Mg".

Related Topics:
ANSI - Volt - Octave - Voltage controlled oscillators - Synthesizers

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One Moog (1 Mg) means one volt per octave (1V/oct), which is the most common standard. Other scaling factors have been used, such as the 1.2 Moog scale of Buchla synthesizers and the Minimoog Voyager's 0.98 Mg scaling.

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