Today is International Synthesizer Day!
May 23rd marks International Synthesizer Day, celebrating the incredible legacy of synthesizers as well as Bob Moog’s birthday. Without the original Moog synth, there would be no commercial synthesizers, so there would be nothing to inspire Massive, so there would be no Dubstep! But beyond Dubstep, synthesizers have utterly revolutionized music as a whole. Traditional instruments are limited to basic vibrations and noises, and rarely have a way to significantly customize the sound. But with a synthesizer, there’s practically no limit to what you can do! So many genres have risen up due to the invention of the synthesizer, and many more have been improved by it. Synthesizers are truly some of the greatest things to have come from the 20th century!
should also mention keith emerson the goat and wendy carlos, and the early users of the moog synthesizer who helped develop synthesizer and modular sound design in the early days