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  • HELLA KITTY Free Sample Library

    From DarkSideoftheTune on SoundCloud. Submitted by Shawn Shirey via our Facebook page

    A Howling Free Sample Library from Dark Side of the Tune

    Hella Kitty is a 39 sound library containing cat sounds that were altered with a vocoder to create robotic and ethereal sound design options.

    Source synthesizers include:

    Arturia Minibrute
    Moog Slim Phatty
    Doepfer Dark Energy

    As always, if you like these sounds, please consider stopping by the shop and checking out the other libraries for purchase at www.darksideofthetune.com

    Free Library: docs.google.com/file/d/0BzLbZ1FMX…/edit?usp=sharing

    I have of course downloaded this one 🙂

  • CatSynth pic: Napoleon, Wellington, and Arturia MiniBrute

    napoleon, wellington and arturia minibrute

    The cats Napoleon and Wellington lounge near an Arturia MiniBrute synthesizer. Submitted by Steve Peglar via our Facebook page.

    You can read me NAMM 2012 review of the Minibrute here.

    If you have cat-and-gear pictures, you can submit them via Facebook, Twitter, or by contacting us.

  • CatSynth pic: Charlotte the Cat Gives Up on the MiniBrute

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    Via matrixsynth.

    You can read my NAMM 2012 review of the Arturia MiniBrute here.

  • Arturia MiniBrute

    Arturia MiniBrute

    One of the surprises at NAMM was the Arturia MiniBrute:

    The MiniBrute features a pure analog signal path (a first for Arturia). It has an oscillator bank with the usual complement of waveforms (sawtooth, square, PWM) as well as a sub-octave oscillator. As such, it reminded me a lot of the Octave Kitten, and I was able to get some similar sounds out of it when I set the cutoff on the filter low (and the resonance high). I thing it would sound great with a proper amp with bass response. It didn’t have a chance to put it through the modulation paces to see of the LFO was also similar to the Octave synths.

    Others had their own comparisons. The Roland SH-101 seems to be a common comparison in terms of the sound. I think many of us who were surprised to see this instrument and happy with its USD $549 starting price all wanted to project our own analog favorites onto it.