Moog synthesizer

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the proprietary name of a brand of electronic synthesizer.

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Also called Moog .

First recorded in 1965–70; named after Robert A. Moog (1934–2005), U.S. engineer

We do look at how long people play with them—the Moog Doodle had, I think, 54 million songs created.
Hanging Out With the Minds Behind Google Doodles and Chrome Experiments|Douglas Wolk|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Wikipedia describes her as a "singing synthesizer application with a female persona," created by Crypton Future Media.
Maybe It's Time to Get Off Youtube|Ilana Glazer|January 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
These were then declaimed by a speech synthesizer, with the androidal American accent that has thereafter become his trademark.
Stephen Hawking 70th-Birthday Salute|Martin Rees|January 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
When the last machine breaks and the final food synthesizer collapses the people will die.
The K-Factor|Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

He recognized the latest model lie-detector, a rather outdated narco-synthesizer, a Class B Psychocomputer.
Evil Out of Onzar|Mark Ganes
One of our others was a little like Manny the Moog; he drove like a madman—which he was when he was drunk.
Nor Iron Bars a Cage....|Gordon Randall Garrett