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 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
Oreo returns! This time, he is showing off a Gakken SX-150 MkII synthesizer. Submitted by John Weiner via our Facebook page.
The Gakken SX-150 is a tiny analog synthesizer, sharing some elements with both the Stylophone and Korg Monotron series. It has a solid feature set for such a small instrument, including multiple LFO shapes, independent controls for filter cutoff and resonance, envelopes, and buttons to automatically sweep the filter. Like the stylophone, the stylus is the main pitch control. A purrfectly cat-sized instrument, though the stylus must be a bit challenging for paws.
You can see Oreo’s previous appearance here.
I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4
— Jam2go (@jam2go.com) September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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A beautiful cat and a beautiful chord. From Jam2go via BlueSky.
The synth to the left of the cat is a SOMA Laboratory Lyra-8. The keyboard is left as an exercise to the reader.
Dizzy Ra Nilsson proudly sits upon a Korg Mono/Poly. Beautiful cat and great synth!
Submitted by Alison Niedbalski via our Facebook page.
A truly “CatSynth modular jam” by Eric Flohr Reynolds (@flohrdumal on Instagram).
Vilkutas sits in front of an impressive Doefper modular system. The look on his face makes it clear that this is his 😺
Submitted by nummerstation via Instagram.
Dahlia strikes another beautiful pose, this time next to the Roland JP-8080. In the background, we also see a Korg MiniKorg 700, an Ensoniq ESQ-1, and a red Roland SH-101. We at CatSynth particularly covet a couple in this collection.
Submitted by our friend Rob Robinson (@orderofthestatictemple on Instagram).
