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Taking inspiration from the storied company\u2019s founder Robert Moog, Carl handles everything from architecting systems to designing circuits, writing code, and debugging prototypes. Frequently collaborating with musicians in Asheville, North Carolina; Nashville; and Los Angeles, his designs walk a fine line between paying homage to Moog\u2019s roots while advancing technology in interesting new directions.\r\n\r\nStriking that balance has earned Carl\u2019s designs\u2014including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moogmusic.com\/synthesizers\/labyrinth\/\">Moog Labyrinth<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moogmusic.com\/synthesizers\/muse\/\">Moog Muse<\/a> synthesizers\u2014critical acclaim. He credits the education he received at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\">University of Rochester<\/a> with preparing both the left and right sides of his brain for the challenge of synth design.\r\n\r\n\u201cElectrical engineers often fall in the trap of trying to create synthesizers by designing perfect circuits that perform optimally and tick every single metric but end up sounding boring,\u201d says Carl. \u201cYou have to be open and have an ear to bend the rules to get something that sounds nice. Rochester\u2019s AME program gave me the tools to develop that ear without skimping on the hard skills.\u201d\r\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\r\n<h3>Synthesizing a career out of passion<\/h3>\r\nWhen Carl was in middle school in Knoxville, Tennessee, his garage band was searching for a \u201csound.\u201d He picked up a synthesizer and quickly fell in love.\r\n\r\nGrowing up about two hours from Moog Music\u2019s factory in Asheville, he made the pilgrimage there several times throughout high school and knew it was the place he wanted to work someday. He found out about URochester\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/ame\/\">audio music and engineering (AME) degree program<\/a> and saw a path to his dream job.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe AME program was tailor made to exactly what I wanted to do,\u201d says Carl. \u201cThe really valuable thing to me about it was the balancing of the creative and subjective side with the hard skills in circuit design, digital signal processing, and all of that, because both sides are equally important.\u201d\r\n\r\nWhile he was a student at URochester, he cold called the receptionists at Moog Music several times about internship opportunities and was initially rebuffed. But his persistence paid off, and he interned there in 2019, affirming that it was the place he knew he belonged.\r\n\r\nCarl returned to his studies after his internship with a foot in the door and a refined focus on what he had yet to learn. Carl had entered URochester on an accelerated path to earn his master\u2019s degree in five years through the <a href=\"https:\/\/admissions.rochester.edu\/academics\/gear\/\">Graduate Engineering at Rochester (GEAR) program<\/a> and says the fifth year provided him crucial skills for his career.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt gave me context for some of the problems I run into now as I\u2019m learning how to design higher and higher speed boards,\u201d says Carl. \u201cAll of the converter knowledge I got from that fifth year plugged perfectly in with the research I ended up doing here at Moog. When I got here, I told them \u2018I learned all this stuff in grad school and I can probably design a way that we can do this cheaper and better,\u2019 and they said, \u2018let\u2019s do it.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_676612\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"2000\"]<img class=\"wp-image-676612 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Rick-Carl-and-student-Moog-synthesizers.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Carl and Abby Che in front of a Moog Labyrinth synthesizer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" \/> <strong>INSIDE THE LABYRINTH:<\/strong> Rick Carl shows audio and music engineering master's student Abby Che '25 (MS) the Moog Labyrinth, a semi-modular synthesizer he designed. (University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)[\/caption]\r\n<h3>Career at Moog Music<\/h3>\r\nCarl has been heavily involved with internal research at Moog Music since joining the company in November 2020. One of his earliest projects was a Eurorack case for housing modular synths.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt was not very glamorous, but it taught me quite a bit about power supply design because it had to be able to power anything you throw at it and tolerate some pretty poor circuit designs,\u201d says Carl. \u201cIn the modular space you have everyone from actual electrical engineers to amateur hobbyists using them, so it had to be very resilient and clean.\u201d\r\n\r\nHe led research efforts before he got his first chance to spearhead a major project he called the Labyrinth, released in July 2024. As the system architect and lead hardware engineer, he set out to create a drum synthesizer with generative aspects, meaning it will create rhythms and melodies using random chance.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe ended up designing something that gives people a very different sound from a traditional Moog synthesizer while still maintaining the quality that everyone associates with Moog,\u201d says Carl. \u201cWe created a new and fun sequencer interface for generating melodies and rhythms that can be driven by random chance but are still very much controlled. You can set up a starting place and explore from there, hence the name \u2018Labyrinth\u2019 because you can go in so many different directions.\u201d\r\n\r\nMusician and YouTube personality Andrew Huang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ej2jLErKsWc\">called it Moog\u2019s \u201cbest release in years\u201d<\/a> and used it to create a 2024 collaborative album with fellow artist Undulae titled Labyrinth.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is my favorite instrument to come out in ages because it just constantly gives you these delightful surprises,\u201d says Huang. \u201cYou have to always be recording when you\u2019re using it because you\u2019re able to transform the sounds and sequences so quickly, you can never fully predict where you\u2019re going to end up with it even though you can steer it in a lot of ways. It\u2019s really genius.\u201d\r\n\r\nCarl also wrote code and did the circuit design for the Moog Muse, the company\u2019s new flagship polyphonic synthesizer released in 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/music-tech\/synths\/moog-muse-review\">Music Radar<\/a> called it \u201cThe purest, most characterful poly that Moog has made in recent memory.\u201d\r\n\r\nCarl has many more designs in the pipeline, and now his creations will help to train the next generation of AME students at URochester. The AME program\u2019s faculty, including Distinguished Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/ece\/people\/faculty\/bocko_mark\/index.html\">Mark Bocko<\/a> and Distinguished Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/ece\/people\/faculty\/lavaque_rob\/index.html\">Robert LaVaque<\/a>, made sure to include the Labyrinth and Muse in a state-of-the-art synthesizer lab in the Computer Studies Building. The lab features more than 50 synthesizers and enabled the department to offer a new course in synths, samplers, and drum machines. Carl was invited for the lab\u2019s grand opening and to speak to students in the new class in October.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt was an honor having Rick back on campus to provide our students with a master class on these instruments,\u201d says LaVaque. \u201cHe serves as an inspiration for students in our AME and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/ame\/undergraduate\/audio-arts-and-technology.html\">audio arts and technology program<\/a>.\u201d","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"},{"acf_fc_layout":"media_text_new","anchor":"","class":"","overline":"","title":"<h3><strong>A bonus Rochester connection<\/strong><\/h3>","content":"Robert Moog and Herbert Deutsch co-invented the first commercial synthesizer in 1964. The electronic music pioneers first met in November 1963 at a NY State School Music Association Allstate conference at the University of Rochester\u2019s Eastman School of Music. Moog was selling theremins\u2014electronic musical instruments played without touching them\u2014and Deutsch invited him to an electronic music concert. Together they would design the groundbreaking synthesizer the Moog, which would be used by some of the biggest rock and pop acts of the late 1960s\u2014including the Doors, the Byrds, and the Beatles\u2014and become a staple of progressive rock in the 1970s.\r\n\r\n<em>Robert Moog next to his eponymous synthesizer in the 1970s. 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