Joice Street looking south in San Francisco’s Chinatown and a beautiful and clear afternoon.
Author: catsynth
CatSynth Pic: Milali and Korg Prophecy
Milali has found a most peculiar napping position and location beside a Korg Prophecy synthesizer. From Caroline Sommer via our Facebook page.
A bit more on the Prophecy from Vintage Synth Explorer:
The Prophecy Solo Synthesizer was unveiled in 1995, and was a purely monophonic solo/lead synthesizer. It employed DSP synthesis first developed for the Korg OASYS synthesizer, with algorithms for producing realistic analog timbres, VPM (Variable Phase Modulation) tones similar to FM synthesis, and physically modeled brass, reed, and plucked string instruments. At your finger tips were tons of real-time control over traditional analog editing parameters like filter cutoff and resonance, envelopes and the arpeggiator. It had a pitch wheel, a mod wheel, an expressive dual action ribbon wheel, six effects processors and more!
http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/prph.php
CatSynth Video: 4093 Quad Oscillator
CatSynth Pic: Lilly and the Modular
Lilly scampers on top of a Eurorack system that is still brimming with potential. From coresect23 via Instagram.
CatSynth Video: Big Merp & Rick-and-Morty Pocket Operator
I managed to order one of the new Rick & Morty Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering, and it arrived at HQ yesterday. I decided to film the unboxing and initial attempts to play it for CatSynth TV, but Big Merp decided to get in the act. You can see our fun in this video.
The Pocket Operator is a tiny synth from Teenage Engineering that comes in several models of which the Rick-and-Morty-themed version is the most recent. Once I fully get the hang of it, I will do a proper demo, probably in conjunction with the modular or Field Kit.
CatSynth Pic: Syd and Elektron Analog Keys
CatSynth Video: Battery Powered 0-Coast + iOS Airplane Jam now with more Cats
From Tim Cox via YouTube:
I was just on an airplane with my 0-Coast hooked into a battery pack with patch cables everywhere and the flight attendant was super cool with it and everything.
So I jammed. I even ordered a sparkling water during the set. It was refreshing. AUM + BLEASS Reverb + Perforator + Vatanator for the steady beat. I don’t want to pay for SoundCloud pro right now so I put some psychedelic cat footage over top and I think it works. Let me know what you think!
We at CatSynth love it and are in fact inspired to do another cat-centric synth jam of our own 😸
CatSynth Pic: Big Merp, Modular Synths, and the Cone of Shame
Big Merp jumps up on the ledge behind the modular synths (the main system as well as the RackBrute). Also present are the Deptronics Thunderbell, Moog Mother 32, Roland Boutique VP-03 (with owl), and the Korg Volca Beats.
Poor Merp has had to wear the cone of shame since his surgery on Friday, but as this picture shows, by Wednesday he was feeling much better and back to his regular mischievous self. So we decided to liberate him from the cone.
He seems much happier without it 😸
