History of electronic music - development of electronic instruments

 Moog Synthesizer/Robert Moog
Robert Moog

Is the founder of Moog Music, he is an American Electronic pioneer, he is also the creator of the Moog synthesizer. The Moog Synthesizer was the first used Electronic musical instrument, widely ever used. He's created more things such as bass pedals, The Moog minitaur, The Minimoog and many more.

This is him telling us about the history of the moog Syntheiszer, how to use it and so on.

Before there was any type of phase distortion synthesiser or any synthesizer at all, the first ever Syntheiszer was the 'MOOG Synthesizer'. The Mood Syntehsizer is a analog synthesizer that you have to create sounds manually, it was made around the 1960's. This synthesizer has been used frequently in the 60's/70's to create synthsised sounds. Back then there was only one waveform which was the sine wave, they could not manipulate sounds by using different kind of waveforms. The Moog synthesizer has a keyboard attached with a couple of wires, these wires are the Eq's/LFO's/Filters and so on. This Synthesizer has 4 type of waveforms which is Sine/SawTooth/Triangle/Square.

This is another demonstration of the Moog Synthesizer. When he presses a key it sounds like a triangle waveform, he then twists the knob which is the filtering knob to increase the low frequency's, he tries another oscillator to manipulate sounds. He uses 3 triangle waves with the filter all the way open to create new and wild sounds.  He then uses another waveform the saw tooth to get a fuzzy sound, he adds the same waveform on top to create that buzzy/fuzzy type of sound, it sounds like a Synth lead.




Cz Series 
The CZ series are electronic instruments, they are phase distortion Synthesizers they are produced by the Casio family. They were once made in the mid 1980's. They were about 8 made synthesizer's. These keyboards have a Midi input so people can use this for live performances. It also has a pitch bender, so you can manipulate the sounds.

The first make was the CZ-101, it was released in 1984. It was one of the first polythonic synthesizers, this keyboard had only 49 keys instead of 61 keys. The CZ-101 used miniature keys. It has a good stage of a 8 envelope design, it uses phase distortion synthsis which creates brilliant sounds.  The Casio
CZ-101 has it's own digital synthesis straight from the mid eighties, these sounds are often found in the CZ family. On the other hand if you want to get these sounds then you would need to modify the sine waves to create those sounds. This synthesis can create wild new sounds and some notable sounds.
Although this is the first make it's the mini version of the Cz-1000.

Casio Cz-1000

This Electronic instrument is called the Casio CZ-1000 Digital synthezier. " Casio Developed some of the first high-quality, low cost digital syntheziers . Modelssuch as the CZ-1000 helped bridge the deep gap between cheaper 'home' Keyboards and expensive instruments, and they were used by some amateurs and professionals alike. " - Source Martin Susan.
It was introduced in 1985, it is the 3rd ever made synthesiser and the second programmable phase distortion synthesiser. It's got 32 batches which includes 16 presets  and 16 user. It's succeeded by the CZ-3000 and CZ-5000.
The Casio CZ is most known for the 8 stage envelope. It used a phase distortion so with this you can manipulate with digital waveforms, for example sine waves and create your own varrious of sounds.
There are 3 sets of 8 envelopes sections, they are used to modulate your sounds. The first is used to modify the 'DCO' (Digitally controlled oscillator) Pitches. A DCO is like a digital electronic oscillator or analogue.
The second 8 stage in the DCW (Device Control Word) is used for modifiying phase angle time, which is the filter - they use this to either cut off bits/take away highs or lows.

The way he was using this synthesiser, is he was playing it like a keyboard and he was using the pitch bender on the left to manipulate his sound.



Casio CZ-1

The Casio CZ-1 is the most advanced and recent synthesiser in the CZ Series. It has doubled the memory compared to the eldest synthesiser's, it's got 3 modes - one is called normal, tone mix and key split. Each of these modes have different controls in terms of channels. It's also got a backlight just incase your power is out for example, the rest of the series do not have this feature. This Synthesiser is a Phase distortion synthesis, however compared to the other ones in the CZ series this one has new & improved features. The Casio CZ has effects that allows you to manipulate with the sounds  so you can create new sounds of your own. It also works like a normal keyboard because it has different presets you can use such as strings, orchestra, guitar and many more. This keyboard has external controls, you can use it for midi (logic) or for live performance.
Example of someone using the Casio CZ-1:

The way this person was using the Casio is he was demonstrating the way how the Casio works he was also showing us what type of 'presets' it has. It's got many many sounds that you can play around with.

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk are the most known electronic musicians ever. These are one of the musicians that use a electronic keyboard.  This is them live performing as you can see one of the member's is using they keyboard/synthesizer