Author: catsynth

Ziggy Cat Cool (ARP TRAX)

We found this gem via our friend Bill T Miller, a musician, engineer, filmmaker, photographer and kook. You can hear and download the track from his Bandcamp page.

We see several ARP instruments, including an early Odyssey and a 2600. We also see a Buchla modular system and a Eurorack modular system. Bill and Ziggy have a great setup.

You can find out more about Bill’s multi-faceted work via billtmiller.com.

Although we connected recently, via our mutual friend Dina Pearman-Ifil of the ARP Foundation, it turns out Ziggy was featured in this post several years ago.

Monty and Nord

Monty looks ready for his recording session with our friend Dave Newhouse.

Monty caught trying to lay down some keyboard tracks on the next album!

If Monty does lay down some keyboard tracks on the Nord, we at CatSynth will look forward to hearing them.
Please check out our review of Dave Newhouse’s Natura Morta on CatSynth TV (if you haven’t already done so).

Haku and Blue Lantern Shimm

Tabby cat with a Eurorack module from Blue Lantern on its side.

Poor Haku hadn’t been feeling well for a bit, but fortunately, he’s back to his energetic, curious self. Here we see him with a Blue Lantern Shimm module. This is a “shimmer” generator with several XOR functions, a cowbell sound generator, and a noise “sizzle” generator.

From our friend Erik Ribeiro (@eriksuperlazy on Instagram):


hanks to those who messaged me or sent well wishes for Haku. He’s good. Started doing better as soon as he was willing to start eating. He’s back to his curious self, jumping in to “help” as I shuffle modules between skiffs.

I gotta say, I always liked the look of Blue Lantern Modules. They can sometimes look too dense or too busy or a little inconsistent, but I still like the aesthetic. The look has personality instead of looking like so many others. I really like the look of these white modules in particular, and I love the knobs. Wonder if I can find more of these “power button” looking knobs for other modules.

ModularTrax (Aphex Twin’s Cat in studio)

This photo, which was spotted by our friend and regular reader @scrottie on Mastodon, is apparently of Aphex Twin’s cat in his studio. We were able to track down its provenance, and indeed it is from the companion tracks released to SoundCloud in conjunction with the Syrobonkers interview (with David Noyze). Here is the full playlist on YouTube, with the cat photo.

I actually quite enjoyed these little modular experiments, quite inspiring.