CatSynth pic: Aki, Arp 2600 and modular

Submitted by Phill Hendricks via facebook:


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“That’s Aki, he’s on the Arp 2600. As for the modules, a little bit of everything- Metasonix, 4MS, Malekko/Wiard, Make Noise, The Harvestman, FoH, …. and even a little bit of Buchla in front of the 2600.”

CatSynth video: francesca in synth

From FOCtv on YouTube:

“auto-un-installation of girl-cat module”

Among the cutest cat-and-synth videos I have seen so far 🙂

Can anyone identify the any of the modules?
(UPDATE: thanks to prophei for identifying the synthesizers.com modules)

UPDATE: we actually featured Francesca back in 2007.

Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Vertical

For today’s combined Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt, we explore the theme of vertical with Luna. Certainly, vertical lines are part of the texture and geometry of our home, in some cases quite literally:

(This photo first appeared in February.)

Luna is also quite lean and tall which is apparent when she stretches as in the previous photo, or poses on her pedistal:

There of course other numerous vertical lines in the space around her.


Weekend Cat Blogging #253 is co-hosted by LB and Breadhick at The Sour Dough and Othello and Salome.

Photo Hunt 208 is hosted by tnchick, with the theme of Vertical.

The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted by Nikita Cat at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.

And the friday ark is at the modulator.

Weekend Cat Blogging and Photo Hunt: Sweet

Sometimes a theme can be so easy that it becomes a challenge.  Such is the case with this week’s Photo Hunt theme of sweet. Luna is the embodiment of sweetness, and the number of images in the CatSynth archives documenting this can be a bit overwhelming. So we start with the present. Luna often parks herself nearby my workstation in the studio/office and watches quietly. There is something quite sweet about her presence:

There is something very sweet about a sleeping cat, curled up and peaceful:

and of course getting pets and affection:

In retrospect, this really was not difficult at all.


Weekend Cat Blogging #252 is being hosted by our friend Nikita at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.

Photo Hunt #207 is hosted by tnchick. This week’s theme is sweet.

The Carnival of the Cats will be up this Sunday at Mind of Mog.

The Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos will be hosted this weekend Samantha and Clementine.

And the friday ark is at the modulator.

CatSynth pic: Yamaha CS-01 Documentation and Charlotte the Cat

From Lee Tizzard, via matrixsynth:

“Included in these pics [of the CS-01 and documentation] is a captioned pic of Charlotte the cat revealing a common misnomer about the little cs-o1 ‘analogue”‘synth.”

The original post includes some photos of the manual:

You can see more as well as some discussion of MIDI-retrofitting the CS-01 on the post on matrixsynth.