We have this triple image from Roland for the combination of “808 Day” and International Cat Day.
We hope you all have a good day today with your cats and music, whether in space or not.
Synthesizers
CatSynth Pic: Arturia MiniBrute Bag
A black-and-white cat plays hide and seek in an Arturia gig bag. From particlesintowaves on Instagram.
We have the exact same back here at HQ for our Arturia MiniBrute 2 and RackBrute 3U. It makes gigging with that instrument very easy. But I hope neither Sam Sam nor Big Merp decides to make it a hiding place…
CatSynth Pic: Big Merp and Modular
As promised in yesterday’s Weekend Cat Blogging post, here is Big Merp with our main modular system.
He always wants to be wherever the action is, and at that moment the action was in the studio, where I was editing our latest episode of CatSynth TV, which itself has a feline theme.
CatSynth Video: Circuit bent Hin Hon EK-001, matrix mixer, joystick delay
Dino steals the show in this video from Ok Housecat. Lots of fun circuit-bending in this one, and Dino seems to be enjoying it.
CatSynth Pic: Buchla 208
A beautiful calico cat sits behind an (also beautiful) Buchla 208 system. From macron_electron via Instagram.
The 208 is really just the top half a Music Easel, i.e., the synthesizer without the touch plate controller. Recently, my interest in Buchla gear at HQ has been rekindled, first by the announcement of the still elusive Red Panel series at NAMM, and then by the demo that we got from Thomas DiMuzio at his rehearsal for the Outsound summit.
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.
