After about 24 hours of pre-NAMM adventures, I will finally begin to observe and review the actual show. We’re all set with our iPhone/iPad NAMM app:
More to be posted on this pages as time permits. In the meantime, follow @catsynth on Twitter for live updates.
Dream the cat poses with the aptly named Octave Kitten.
Submitted by Os Ovni, where you can see images and hear the band’s music.
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From Janoise on YouTube.
Demo.
The Koma pedal has a gate and a very short delay.
At the end of the delay range the Koma gets in a kind of a bit-crusher sounding effect.
This is not often found at a analog pedal.
This is because Koma has modded the chip!
Also on matrixsynth, where you can see more videos and find out about the KOMA Elektronik “YouTube yourself!” Competition. They are going to be at NAMM next week.
via KOMA: “By the way, we love cats in videos! ;-)”
From Appliancide, where you can read more about the project.
I ordered some knobs and switch covers for the Doepfer modules, so they will blend in with my DIY stuff better. I am working on a second case and the modules to fill it. I will try to do a start-to-finish pictorial on one the modules this coming year. We’ll see. I like to build slow and rock out to music. Taking pictures cramps my style.
Also on matrixsynth:
“Clockwise starting from the upper left:
Doepfer a-111 VCO, Dual CGS/Serge DUSG, Doepfer a-188-1 256 stage BBD, Doepfer a-188-1 4096 stage BBD, DIY manual gate/lag generator, Doepfer a-135 mixer, Doepfer a-101-2 LPG, DIY version of Fonitronik Attenuverting Mixer and Buchla 292C LPG clone using boards from Thomas White.”
For our first Weekend Cat Blogging of 2012, we reprise the original photo that launched this site. Here is Luna with the Novation keyboard on the beanbag chair near the turn of the new year.
Luna is all grown up compared to the youngster in the original photo in 2006, but she still has the same fur and eyes. And she still favors this particular beanbag chair as her own. Indeed, it’s a favorite napping spot here in the studio area:
I didn’t realize until looking at the original against these photos how similar the windows look, even though the original was in a completely different place.
The studio is a currently a focus of attention here at CatSynth HQ in that I am trying to further make it into a better organized laboratory for musical and visual creativity. And it also has to continue to double as the office, the place where the computers sit and where I pay the bills. I expect that Luna will continue to spend lots of time here as well.
Weekend Cat Blogging #344 is hosted by Mog with assists from Meowza and Ritzi at Mind of Mog.
The Carnival of the Cats well be hosted by Kashim, Othello and Salome in Vienna.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
From Sawa Masaki on flickr.
“Yoko who pushes the RING MOD SYNC button”
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Music: NightRadio – Window
http://www.warmplace.ru/music/btts/
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From Sawa Masaki on flickr, we have another photo featuring Taro:
Taro is like me, and partial to flats rather than sharps. I am pretty sure the synth is a DSI Mopho. Please comment if you think otherwise.
Also appears on matrixsynth.
A music video this morning, via matrixsynth:
“‘Shy and Strange’ by Uku Maze, 11. december 2011
Lyrics, melody, vocal, arranger & production: Tine Louise Kortermand
Bass & arranger: Boe Katharina Demsy Przemyslak
Beats, synth, arranger & production: Kristoffer OvesenOther participants: The dog Zeus, the rabbit Stampe and the cat Gilbert.
Video concept and finalcut edit: Tine Louise Kortermand
Camera: Tine Kortermand, Camilla Kortermand, Xenia Haurand & Rico Feldfoss. Colourgrading: Rico Feldfoss
Thanks to drawings and assistance: Xenia Haurand & Karen MØ”
Look for the white cat Gilbert about 2 minutes into the video. Also look for the bowed electric bass. There are also some interesting moments with line drawings and costuming (particularly the pink and white outfit), as well as a few gear shots with Jomox, Korg, etc.
For this year’s holiday edition of Weekend Cat Blogging, we have scenes from our rather casual observance of Hanukkah.
Luna inspects the iPad-based menorah after the fourth night (which happened on Friday). The iPad app is from an Israeli studio, and has simulated oil flames rather than candle flames. It has the traditional prayer in Hebrew, which I cannot read particularly well – growing up, we either said it in English or from transliteration.
We do have a real menorah as well, but Luna is not allowed near it. You can see it in this post from the past.
Luna did get some new toys to play with. She is quite fond of the catnip-filled variety.
Weekend Cat Blogging #342 is hosted by Jules and Vincent, at Judi’s Mind Over Matter. Check out their great black-and-white photos.
Carnival of the Cats will be hosted tomorrow by Billy SweetFeets.
The Friday Ark is off this week for the holidays.