Editing Electronic music (section)

===Keyboard synthesizers===
[[File:Minimoog.JPG|thumb|Mini-Moog synthesizer]]
{{See also|Modular synthesizer|Buchla|Electronic Music Studios|Korg}}
Released in 1970 by [[Moog Music]], the [[Minimoog|Mini-Moog]] was among the first widely available, portable, and relatively affordable synthesizers. It became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music.<ref>"In 1969, a portable version of the studio Moog called the Minimoog Model D, became the most widely used synthesizer in both popular music and electronic art music" {{harvnb|Montanaro|2004|p=8}}.</ref>
[[Patrick Gleeson]], playing live with [[Herbie Hancock]] at the beginning of the 1970s, pioneered the use of synthesizers in a touring context, where they were subject to stresses the early machines were not designed for.{{sfn|Zussman|1982|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=MjAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1 1, 5]}}<ref>{{harvnb|Sofer|Lynner|1977|p=[http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/synapse.cfm?pc=39&folder=jan1977&pic=23 23]}} "Yes, I used [ Moog modular equipment ] until I went with Herbie (Hancock) in 1970. Then I used a [ [[ARP synthesizers|ARP]] ] 2600 because I couldn't use the Moog on stage. It was too big and cranky; every time we transported it, we would have to pull a module out, and I knew I couldn't do that on the road, so I started using ARP's."</ref>

In 1974, the [[Studio for Electronic Music (WDR)|WDR]] studio in Cologne acquired an [[EMS Synthi 100]] synthesizer, which many composers used to produce notable electronic works—including [[Rolf Gehlhaar]]'s ''Fünf deutsche Tänze'' (1975), Karlheinz Stockhausen's ''[[Sirius (Stockhausen)|Sirius]]'' (1975–1976), and [[John McGuire (composer)|John McGuire]]'s ''Pulse Music III'' (1978).{{sfn|Morawska-Büngeler|1988|pp=52, 55, 107–108}}

Thanks to [[Miniaturization|miniaturization of electronics]] in the 1970s, by the start of the 1980s keyboard synthesizers, became lighter and affordable, integrating into a single slim unit all the necessary audio synthesis electronics and the piano-style keyboard itself, in sharp contrast with the bulky machinery and "[[Cable management|cable spaguetty]]" employed along with the 1960s and 1970s. First, with analog synthesizers, the trend followed with digital synthesizers and samplers as well (see below).