Catsynth pic: actual cat with Octave CAT… and Kitten in Emulator X

Well, here's another cat sitting next to an Octave CAT – wonder why that comes up so much.

Actually I am quite interested in the Octave CAT and Kitten synths, I'm trying (yet again) to bid on one on eBay.

In the meantime, I have been trying several methods to emulate them, including building an Emulator X patch. The Kitten is definitely more feasible because it only has one oscillator and thus no FM – FM is nearly impossible to do on the Emulator platform. However, I did one out of MIDI controllers. So the end result is a “Kitten lite” that contains all the oscillator waveforms (Saw, Triangle and Square/PWM), the two independent sub-octave waveforms, square and sine LFOs, filter with realtime cutoff and Q and envelope mod, and of course ADSR envelope.

While not a real Octave Kitten, it's a nice little playable instrument.





2 thoughts on “Catsynth pic: actual cat with Octave CAT… and Kitten in Emulator X”

  1. He man,

    if u are still looking for a kitten 2, I have got one…
    what do u have to offer?

    Cheers,

    Bob

  2. Hi Bob-

    Thanks for the offer. I did acquire an [url=http://www.ptank.com/catsynth/index.php?entry=entry070412-220133]Octave CAT[/url] recently, so I'm probably good for now.

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