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.
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.
