At the AES 1964 convention in New York, Robert Moog first introduced the work he and Herb Deutsch had been doing on voltage-controlled synthesizer modules, and their analogue synthesizer quickly became the cutting edge of music. But the 1980s digital revolution swept them aside, and soon the only place to buy analogue was at junk sales. 

 

Then a funny thing happened: in the mid-2000s, analogue came back, and the instruments and components are very much in production and widely used today. 

 

Join us for an evening of conversation with industry veterans including Trent Thompson, former product marketing manager at Moog Music and now CEO at Lauten Audio.

PNW Committee member Michael Ashton will be the moderator as well as the Producer for this Zoom-only meeting.

 

More about Robert Moog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog

 

 

Michael Ashton is an engineer who spent twelve years in the musical instrument business. After designing guitar amplifiers and DJ mixers, he worked on synthesizer products at Moog Music, where he was system architect for the Moog One, and designed the oscillators. Today he is working on new audio products at Ashton Research.

 

Trent Thompson is President at Lauten Audio, a manufacturer of studio microphones. Before Lauten, he spent eight years at Moog Music, where he managed product development and marketing for almost every product Moog introduced during the 2010s, including the Sub 37, modular reissues, and Moog One.