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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.