[sdiy] Bob Moog

[Bob Weigel]

All accomplishments are based on other people's accomplishments.  NONE 
of us generate things totally from scratch.  Every time I build 
something I would have to put a list of credits that FILLED A BOOK. 

I don't know what mental disorder keeps Samppa posting crap like this.  
Possibly he could list the influences that contributed and it *also* 
would fill a book.

However the fact remains that Bob Moog was the most significant pioneer 
in synthesizer history.  He is the person who took other people's 
designs and built ON them like ANY inventor does...... and 
revolutionized them into something useful for creating actual music!

Dave Smith also found himself in the right place at the right time and 
was the right guy to organize work others had done into the first full 
storage polysynth, the first MIDI synth, the first hammer action MIDI 
synth, the first multi-timbral synth, the first vector wavetable 
synth....  who was the better engineer?  It's an apple orange 
comparison.  Both guys were working on totally different aspects and it 
just happened that Dave was the one who had time with his company to 
pioneer all those advances.

As humans...*many* of us put into the same circumstances might have done 
similar things.  I'm sure Bob wouldn't exalt himself as the greatest 
engineer and that's why he was able to accomplish this stuff.  Rather he 
was in the right place at the right time to *some* degree.   But the 
mini-moog has stood the test of time as one of the greatest monosynths 
ever.  And that's a pretty amazing statement considering it was the 
first one!  Kudos to Bob!  It CAUSES THOSE OF US WITH A BRAIN to wonder 
if he WAS the only guy who could have accomplished *quite* that 
spectacular of a feat.  :-)  I don't know how much was Bill and other 
people who helped him but obviously Bob deserves massive credit for the 
advances he personally had his finger on.  When you are the person of 
focus AS HE WAS in a pioneering venture like this, it tends to sap a lot 
of your personal time and you fall into more of a director role and lose 
the creative time that led to initially putting you in the spotlight.  
And perhaps that's why Bob didn't wind up also developing the first 
polysynth etc.  Regardless let's celebrate the things Bob did do which 
truly were the vehicle that 'gook the synthesizer out of the studio and 
put it in the concert hall' as David Borden put it.    -Bob

John Mahoney wrote:

> Samppa,
>
> You have reached a new low.
>
> You dare to denigrate Bob Moog, and so close to the anniversary of his 
> death?
>
> Nobody needs to defend Bob Moog to you -- his technical achievements 
> speak loudly.
>
> So screw you, a**hole, and congratulations on being the first person 
> whom I've ever blacklisted. (Which means that I won't see your 
> pathetic reply.)
>
> John
>
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