Modules were connected via patch cords, and the total configured design was eventually referred to as a patch. Genius designer/inventor Robert Moog's instrument was highly configurable via patching. The 1964 Moog Modular synthesizer set the gold standard for voltage-controlled synthesis in a single instrument design, and most software synthesizers (such as Native Instruments Absynth), and even synthesis programming languages these days still follow the basic architecture of that instrument. These instruments came to be known as voltage-controlled synthesizers, with voltage being the source of both the audio and control signals. Some modules produced sound, some modified that sound, and others provided electrical current to modify all the others while not producing or shaping the sound signal themselves. ![]() With the advent of a single modular design, perhaps most famously typified by the Columbia-Princeton RCA Mark II and then the Moog modulars, all the various elements required for sound synthesis, both its generation and control, were housed in a single instrument. ![]() In studios pre-dating integrated modular instruments, a signal path may have run through many different separate prototypical devices. ![]() As the name implies, sounds are created synthetically via electronic circuits, as opposed to originating from sampled, or real-world recordings.
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