Instead of a Sunday Newsletter this week, we’ll have our annual end-of-year post on Wednesday 😺
That will also supersede the usual Wordless Wednesday.
Instead of a Sunday Newsletter this week, we’ll have our annual end-of-year post on Wednesday 😺
That will also supersede the usual Wordless Wednesday.


Poor Haku hadn’t been feeling well for a bit, but fortunately, he’s back to his energetic, curious self. Here we see him with a Blue Lantern Shimm module. This is a “shimmer” generator with several XOR functions, a cowbell sound generator, and a noise “sizzle” generator.
From our friend Erik Ribeiro (@eriksuperlazy on Instagram):
hanks to those who messaged me or sent well wishes for Haku. He’s good. Started doing better as soon as he was willing to start eating. He’s back to his curious self, jumping in to “help” as I shuffle modules between skiffs.I gotta say, I always liked the look of Blue Lantern Modules. They can sometimes look too dense or too busy or a little inconsistent, but I still like the aesthetic. The look has personality instead of looking like so many others. I really like the look of these white modules in particular, and I love the knobs. Wonder if I can find more of these “power button” looking knobs for other modules.


This “DJ Cat” is ready to make some beats with their laptop and their Yamaha VSS 30 keyboard – a surprisingly deep instrument for a small member of the Portasound series. We also see an unnamed full-sized keyboard in the corner.
Seen on the Facebook group Cats with Jobs (which I highly recommend if you are still on Facebook), originally from user askforjanice1043.


Nero clearly loves his Ensoniq ASR-10, both for playing and for napping.
Submitted by Ciccio Idea via our Facebook page.
The ASR-10 is also an old favorite of ours at CatSynth. Indeed, we still have one in storage here at CatSynth HQ.


Beautiful Persian cat Russet sits in front of a very portable modular system and a TASCAM digital Portastudio. Submitted by Barry C (aka Legacy Systems) via BlueSky.
This is our Persian cat – called Russet – assisting me with some evening noodling on my very portable modular rig.
The Android Arrow Cats app is free to use, and does not require any user information, user account, or other credentials. No user data is gathered or stored, locally or on a server.


Servo is ready to play us a tune on the MicroKORG. Submitted by Ian Beabout via our Facebook page.
You can watch our review of “WFT Was That?!”, the latest album from Beabout’s project Colouratura on CatSynth TV!


Our friend Gracie is back! She is guarding an Arp Omni-2, PPG Wave, and sundry other synths in the laboratories of Synthetic Dreamscapes, where my friend Alison works magic on these old synths (including our own Octave CAT and Yamaha RX5). You can find more at https://www.syntheticdreamscapes.com/
To see more of Gracie’s many appearances on CatSynth, please check out her tag.


Handsome Tinto poses with a Moog Werkstatt-01 and an Arturia MicroBrute red edition. Submitted by composer deprieto via Mastodon.
Sadly, Tinto passed away two years ago. We send our thoughts to his family, and we hope that this post honors his memory.