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[[File:Ray Wilson pro pic.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''Ray Wilson''' (1956–2016) became interested in analog synthesizers in 1968 when he first heard Switched On Bach.<ref name="book">[http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028093.do Make: Analog Synthesizers] by Ray Wilson, Maker Media Inc, 2013, {{ISBN
== Biography ==
=== Education and how MFOS got started ===
First employed at a steel mill he bought sold and traded analog synthesizers, mainly Korgs, Mini-Moogs, and a variety of the patchable semi-modular Rolands. There he also went through an electronic repairman apprenticeship program. Supplementing the classroom training with [[breadboard]] experimentation, a Heathkit [[microprocessor]] trainer kit, and a great deal of reading and maths. Learning enough to spend the next fifteen years in the medical electronics industry.<ref name="book">[http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028093.do Make: Analog Synthesizers] by Ray Wilson, Maker Media Inc, 2013, {{ISBN
Together with a friend in the 1970s through into the early 1980s he sold [[electronics kits]] under the name Waveform Processing, advertised in [[Radio Electronics magazine]]. While keeping on researching, breadboarding and developing [[monophonic]] and [[polyphonic]] synths. Coming across the versatile [[OnChip Systems|Curtis Electromusic Specialties]] ICs designed by [[Doug Curtis]].<ref name="book" />
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== Incomplete list of writings on electronic music ==
=== Books ===
* ''Make: Analog Synthesizers'', Maker Media, 2013, {{ISBN
=== Papers and articles ===
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