Category: Cats

  • Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Looking Down and Cluttered

    Today’s combined Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt features two themes. This week is Looking Down, but last week’s theme of Cluttered was delayed and happens to be perfect for this week. We are in the midst of a major clean-up here at CatSynth HQ, which brings the usually hidden clutter out into the open:

    It’s amazing how much stuff accumulates. Many things were in storage at previous home then ended up being stored again here. The PurrPad that Luna is sitting on is one of them. It was taking up space and serving no purpose in a closet, but now she clearly enjoys it. Indeed she has been resting here more often that her other usual spots.

    For “Looking Down”, we peer down the staircase at Luna. The perspective is interesting, particularly with all the lines from the metal railings.


    Once again, we are thinking about our friends in the middle of United States affected by terrible and storms, and especially the tornado in Missouri. We heard about a particularly tragic and poignant story last week.

    Those who wish to help pets affected, visit the Jopin Humane Society. And there is the American Red Cross.

    Other donation efforts and fundraising efforts can be found here and via the Cat Blogosphere.


    Weekend Cat Blogging #312 is hosted at Mom’s Sunday Cafe.

    The Photo Hunt is hosted by tnchick. This week’s theme is Looking Down. We are also using last week’s theme of Cluttered.

    The Carnival of the Cats is back at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat this Sunday.

    And the Friday Ark is taking a break this weekend.

  • CatSynth video: No Personal Calls

    From JohnRice on YouTube, via matrixsynth.

    “Just a bit of playing around. Mainly a test of the new Modcan vocoder I recently got. Did I mention it has cats?

    Thanks for watching!

    PS – Hai Wigglers! ;-)”

  • CatSynth pic: Dahlia Kitty on Pro One

    Submitted by Rhys Owen Babich via facebook.

    “My Dahlia Kitty, on My Pro One!”

  • CatSynth video: Voltage Controlled Mind – Supreme God

    Submitted by Jeff Donovick via facebook.

    Watch for the pan over to the cat.

    Synths used:
    analogue solutions vostok
    analogue solutions leipzig
    analogue solutions red square
    analogue solutions semblance
    studio electronics SE1-X [main acid lead]
    vermona perfourmer
    vermona DRM1 MK2
    MAM MB33II [bass line]

  • Weekend Cat Blogging #311

    Luna is back outside on the patio as we prepare for summer.

    I think she is deciding whether or not to jump onto one of the gray cubes.


    Weekend Cat Blogging #311 is hosted by pam at Sidewalk Shoes.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at CAT SMRT.

    And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • CatSynth video: Gabber cat (Bella)

    My cat making gabber for us.

    Submitted on facebook by Ian Lambert of Daed.

    Nord lead’s arpeggiator was producing the kicks and the DSI mopho was making the hoover sounds (Drum machine acted as a sync clock, and the x0xbox was being used as a sequencer for the mopho)

    Bella picked up on it pretty quickly.

    A black cat, Nord and Dave Smith Instruments, what is not to like?

  • CatSynth pic: ghost bandit plays the keys

    From horchacha on YouTube, via matrixsynth:

    This marks our 1500th post on CatSynth!

  • CatSynth pic: Yoko on synth

    From Sawa Masaki on flickr:

    Also on matrixsynth, where the synth is identified as a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

  • Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Missed

    The theme if this week’s Photo Hunt is missed.  So for our combined Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt post, we present Morty:

    As one can see, Morty was a rather smart cat, and like some other individuals we may know enjoyed his coffee and newspaper every morning, and kept his cell phone nearby.  Though it does appear that Morty enjoyed the department-store ads more than the news.

    The cell phone definitely dates this picture, which I’m pretty sure was taken in early 2002. Seen in comparison to the current iPhone, it is definitely not missed. I still have that coffee mug, which I had originally gotten from a used store when I first moved to California several years earlier.

    Morty was actually the first cat I lived with.  He was a rather impish character, always getting into mischief but also seemingly aware that his cuteness would prevent him from getting in trouble.  Even though he often drove me crazy, I still miss him once in a while. (As far as I know, he is still alive and well and still making mischief.)


    Appropriately for a post featuring a tabby cat, Weekend Cat Blogging #310 is hosted by the “three tabby cats in Vienna”, Kashim, Othello and Salome.

    Photo Hunt 265 is hosted by tnchick. This week’s theme is missed.

    The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday be Samantha, Clementine and Maverick.

    And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.

  • CatSynth video: kitchen electro jam: Moog Slim Phatty, iOS Midi Touch & bent QY10

    From burnkit2600 on YouTube:

    Sick with a cold, Miette keeps me company while I take a 1st test drive of this portable little setup. I’m using my newly created iOS Midi Touch controller for the Moog Slim Phatty. I’m controlling the MSP arpeggiator and using it’s DIN MIDI output to play the drums on my circuit-bent Yamaha QY10. Also sloppily playing the tiny keyboard on the QY10. The audio from the QY10 is partially routed back to the Moog for processing. My bent megaphone toy circuit (red box) offers some echo on the unprocessed drums. The crappy Boss mixer & homemade stereo amp combo make the cats ears twitch. Fun.
    Links:
    QY10- http://www.burnkit2600.com/yamaha-qy-10/
    Midi Touch- http://iosmidi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=114
    Moog Slim Phatty- http://www.moogmusic.com/littlephatty/
    Miette- http://www.burnkit2600.com/graphics/ani-miette-sunbath.gif

    I like how Miette just sits quietly there. It reminds me of Luna on her beanbag chair in the studio.
    I will have to try out MIDI Touch when sometime soon…