(From The Archive, e-mail in 2005 Aug. Re-formatted for re-post.)
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Perhaps my own mourning only. Moog was the father of (analog) synthesizer. I started with digital sampling synthesizers in 1994 so it's well before my time. A bit before that, in 1985, I started with FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesizer which was a concept evolved from Moog's pure sine/triangle waves addition/subtraction method. FM was also a brilliant idea because it could produce waves that were so complex that you would literally need a few hundred oscillators to produce with the Moog's method. However, this complex wave forms were also its drawbacks - it was just too complicated to master and therefore creativity remained in the hands of a few top sound designers only. So, most musicians would only use the factory presets bundled with the Yamaha DX syns, and yes, DX was once so hot that every band would have one.
The Moog synthesizer was something in the 60/70's, but still highly regarded for its original sound which no sampling device can match. For one thing, this is true creativity because we make up waves from the fundamentals, whereas for the modern sampling synthesizers, we copy sounds from real instruments or environments, or well, sometimes from the Moogs, but not really a creation. Remember Ryuichi Sakamoto? His debut surprise to the music industry was not his musical talents (well, which is pretty average - I would say), but his unworldly sounds with absolute perfection created from his array of Moogs.
So, analog still survives. One of the recent Moog imitators that I know of is Nord Lead, which got famous because of alternative rocker Trent Reznor. BTW, Reznor's debut album "Nine Inch Nail" was such a shake-up to the boring rock scene in the 90's. Well, Reznor is old by now as well...
Anyway, it's part of my memory.