Haku, Chichiro, and modular “expression skiff”

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).

Merp and Modular

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 and Infinite Machinery modules

Tabby cat with two eurorack-module boxes. One os marked M-infinity and TZ Dual VCO.

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 and Doepfer Dark Energy Mk1

Tortie cat sniffing at a Doepfer Dark Energy, a small analog synthesizer module.

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.

Pinki with Analog Systems and more modular

Pinki shows off a cool Analog Systems modular, with not one but two Oberkorn 16-step sequencers. There are several other Eurorack modules from other manufacturers on the lower level, which we shall leave as an exercise to the reader.

From our friend Edda Jayne via Facebook. You can see Pinki’s previous appearances via his tag