Moog Music introduced it had been acquired by inMusic, a Cumberland, Rhode Island-based firm that owns numerous manufacturers in DJ {and professional} audio tools. In a press release asserting the merger, Moog Music President Joe Richardson wrote that Moog will nonetheless engineer, design, and construct devices at their headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina, and long-time Moog engineer Steve Dunnington—a former pupil of Bob Moog—will proceed to guide product improvement.
Moog joins a roster at inMusic that features the Akai, Alesis, Denon, M-Audio, Marantz, and Numark manufacturers. CEO Jack O’Donnell has been buying skilled audio electronics firms since he bought Numark in 1992. He based the patron electronics model ION Audio in 2002.
Final April, Moog launched a brand new Etherwave Theremin, an replace to the corporate’s unique Etherwave circuitry and aesthetic designed by Bob Moog in 1996. In December Herb Deutsch, who co-invented the Moog synthesizer with Moog, died at 90.
Moog confronted multiple lawsuits in 2021. One go well with was introduced by a former worker who alleged she was harassed and discriminated in opposition to due to her gender. Others have been associated to the cancellation of the 2020 version of the corporate’s music pageant Moogfest, which was referred to as off nicely earlier than the COVID-19-related lockdowns that paused the reside music business.
