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Episode 800 Is Here and the Cats Took Over the Highway!

We celebrate our 800th episode with a delightfully weird video featuring all three cats (Luna, Sam Sam, and Big Merp), scenes from I-80 in the Bay Area, vintage broadcast clips, …and of course original synthesizer based music.

Thank you all for coming with us on this wild journey, and giving us a chance to share our authentic selves with all of you. Onward!

Software synthesizers:
Rob Papen Quad II
Cherry Audio Pentaphonic and ESQ-1
Arturia Pure LoFi and Pigments
Native Instruments SuperStarSaw

Modules:
Kanawha Music & Art Filternator
Vondle Scope & analog video camera
Strymon Magneto and Starlab
Metasonix R-54 and RK5
Rossum Electro-Music Morpheus
Malekko Noisering
Circuit Abbey ADSRjr

Hardware Cameo:
Casio SK-1

#### Archive.org videos
https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-90sLateNightAdultHotlineCommercialsVol1
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-2672
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-5802
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-5946
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-5939
https://archive.org/details/scifikbtcamc2003comm

0:00 introduction
0:20 It’s our 800th Episode!
0:42 The feature presentation
2:39 The end
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Episode 800 Is Here and the Cats Took Over the Highway!
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Episode 800 Is Here and the Cats Took Over the Highway!
We celebrate our 800th episode with a delightfully weird video featuring all three cats (Luna, Sam Sam, and Big Merp), scenes from I-80 in the Bay Area, vintage broadcast clips, …and of course original synthesizer based music.

Thank you all for coming with us on this wild journey, and giving us a chance to share our authentic selves with all of you. Onward!

Software synthesizers:
Rob Papen Quad II
Cherry Audio Pentaphonic and ESQ-1
Arturia Pure LoFi and Pigments
Native Instruments SuperStarSaw

Modules:
Kanawha Music & Art Filternator
Vondle Scope & analog video camera
Strymon Magneto and Starlab
Metasonix R-54 and RK5
Rossum Electro-Music Morpheus
Malekko Noisering
Circuit Abbey ADSRjr

Hardware Cameo:
Casio SK-1

#### Archive.org videos
https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-90sLateNightAdultHotlineCommercialsVol1
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-2672
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-5802
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-5946
https://archive.org/details/capture-a-5939
https://archive.org/details/scifikbtcamc2003comm

0:00 introduction
0:20 It’s our 800th Episode!
0:42 The feature presentation
2:39 The end
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Rob Papen QUAD-2: Phase Distortion, Waveshaping, Filters, Oh my!
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Rob Papen QUAD-2: Phase Distortion, Waveshaping, Filters, Oh my!
We present QUAD-2, a powerful software synthesizer from Rob Papen. The heart of QUAD-2 is its oscillators, each of which have a variety of waveforms and versatile phase-direction and …waveshaping functions, as well as a variety of cross-modulation options. Along with dual filters with a several different signal configurations and filter modes, and myriad modulation options, it has an almost bewildering number of degrees of freedom. But we break it all down for you in this detailed tutorial to help you understand its features and how to use them in your own sound design.

To find out more, please visit https://www.robpapen.com/Quad-2.html

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00:00 Introduction
00:20 Overview
01:33 A few factory presets
02:52 Oscillator 1
13:06 Using both oscillators
18:49 The filter section
27:15 The amplifier section
28:34 Effects
32:53 Arpeggiator and sequencer
35:42 More factory presets
41:03 Conclusion
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Remembering our beloved black cat Luna on #Caturday, 10 years later
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Remembering our beloved black cat Luna on #Caturday, 10 years later
Remembering our beloved black cat Luna on the 10th anniversary of her passing (October 31, 2016). You might recognize her from the logo of CatSynth TV.

We miss her dearly, …
but we take comfort in her memory, seeing her face and hearing her voice.

An original new track “For Luna 2026” is featured in the background.
Synthesizers and effects used include:
Korg modwave
Dawesome Abyss
Cherry Audio Spirit
Arturia Pigments
Aberrant DSP Digitalis
Audiothing Wires


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Store: https://shop.catsynth.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/catsynth
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#cats #shorts
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