Sometimes we like to mix it up on CatSynth TV – just like we used to do here on the blog. This video, on the marine chronometer and its inventor John Harrison, is one of those times. Enjoy!
Author: catsynth
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Orion, Serge Panels, Zoia Euroboro
Orion sits next to his massive Serge synthesizer. We also see a ZOIA Euroboro synthesizer from Empress Effects.
Submitted by Justin Sullivan, aka justin3am via BlueSky:
What a handsome assistant I have. He’s very good at sitting on the cable I need just now. 😻
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Monty plays the Nord
Monty thinks this F sharp is the perfect note for the current track he is working on with Dave Newhouse (The Muffins, Moon X, Manna / Mirage, and other projects).
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Gracie and Roland Jupiter 6
Gracie stands proudly atop a vintage Roland Jupiter 6. As the quality manager for Synthetic Dreamscapes, she always has access to some of the best instruments (including a few of ours that we have sent in for repair).
The Jupiter 6 was a somewhat scaled-down version of Roland’s flagship Jupiter 8 polyphonic analog synthesizer. But it did have a sound of its own, perhaps a little edgier, and it sported one of the earliest MIDI implementations. We at CatSynth enjoy its sound indirectly through Cherry Audio’s Mercury 6 virtual instrument.
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Murdock and Daisy-Mae, Yamaha Clavinova
Murdoch and Daisy-Mae enjoy sitting in a bright spot atop a Yamaha Clavinova digital piano. The issue of Sound on Sound sitting on the music holder features the UDO Super Gemini.
Submitted by Pete Dolan via our Facebook page.
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Wordless Wednesday: Udu
An udu drum at CatSynth HQ, photographed and processed with the Hipstamatic iPhone app.
This particular udu was featured on the track Xi from my 2005 album Aquatic.
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Dahlia and Rob Robinson in the Studio
Dahlia and Rob Robinson show off their amazing studio. We’ve seen many of these instruments in past posts featuring Rob, Dahlia, and/or Persephone, so we’ll leave those as an exercise to the reader.
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Jasper, Yamaha DX7ii, Ensoniq ESQ1
Jasper shares his latest composition on the Yamaha DX7ii classic FM synthesizer. We also see an Ensoniq ESQ1 on the lower shelf. Submitted by Samuel Mills.
Little more avant garde than I was looking for, dude. Let’s take it from the top.
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Gracie and PPG Wave
Gracie shows proudly shows off a PPG Wave. Clearly putting her paw of approval as Quality Manager for Synthetic Dreamscapes.
Submitted via our Facebook page. You can see all of Gracie’s features on CatSynth via her tag.
With wavetable synthesis very much in vogue again, it’s a good time to look back at the PPG Wave, which was the OG for this type of synthesis using large palettes of small, carefully crafted waveforms to create rich timbres at the oscillator level, before the signal goes to any filters, amplifiers or such. Gracie is fortunate to have one of these originals to play.
