Coraline stands proudly atop a vintage Roland Space Echo RE-201. Her little skeleton stuffed kitty is cute, too.
Coraline is the official cat of Calsynth, a maker of modular synthesizers based right here in California! We also occasionally get requests about them, given that our respective names are just one letter off.
Submitted by Struan Oglanby of Calsynth via our Facebook page.
TurbQ shows us who owns this Behringer K2 analog synthesizer, along with a handy Korg SQ-1 sequencer.
Submitted by Randy Darabosh via our Facebook page.
Vilkutas joins us again. He is rushing down the side of his Doepfer modular system to start patching.
Submitted by nummerstation via Instagram.
It’s rare that we get to see Haku and Chichiro together, but here they are, purrfectly posed behind a small modular “expression skiff”. We see modules from Doepfer, Intellijel, AJH Synth, a Bela Gliss, and a Cre8audio Cellz.
From our friend Erik Ribeiro (@eriksuperlazy on Instagram).
Napoleon sits upon a Hohner Clavinet. From Steve Peglar via Instagram.
Next to Napoleon, we also see what I think is a Roland SH-9 vintage analog monosynth.
Our very own Big Merp leads off the new round of CatSynth pics after NAMM and Buchla & Friends.
Behind him, we see the large modular system, with the Make Noise Tempi, Buchla Red Panel 158, Stymon Starlab, Sputnik Dual Oscillator, Dreadbox Euphoria, and many other modules. Next to so, and slightly under Merp, we see the Korg SQ-1 step sequencer.
Haku helps his human pal Erik Ribeiro (@eriksuperlazy on Instagram) unbox and set up new modules from Infinite Machinery. Erik got these back when we were all at Knobcon. I, too, am still setting up some of the modules that I acquired there.
It appears the Infinite Machinery modules in question are the TZ (thru-zero) Dual VCO and Low Road filter.
And here they are installed and set up to make some noise.
Chichiro inspects a Doepfer Dark Energy Mk1 synthesizer. Submitted by our friend Erik Ribeiro (@eriksuperlazy on Instagram).
The Doepfer Dark Energy was built around the Curtis CEM3394 “synth on a chip”. Curtis filter chips are well known and prolific in analog synthesizers, but this chip also includes a VCO and VCA – in short, a full synthesizer voice. It would definitely be fun to get hold of one of these, either packaged like the Dark Energy or on its own to experiment with.
