Orion sits next to his massive Serge synthesizer. We also see a ZOIA Euroboro synthesizer from Empress Effects.
Submitted by Justin Sullivan, aka justin3am via BlueSky:
What a handsome assistant I have. He’s very good at sitting on the cable I need just now. 😻
Monty thinks this F sharp is the perfect note for the current track he is working on with Dave Newhouse (The Muffins, Moon X, Manna / Mirage, and other projects).
Gracie stands proudly atop a vintage Roland Jupiter 6. As the quality manager for Synthetic Dreamscapes, she always has access to some of the best instruments (including a few of ours that we have sent in for repair).
The Jupiter 6 was a somewhat scaled-down version of Roland’s flagship Jupiter 8 polyphonic analog synthesizer. But it did have a sound of its own, perhaps a little edgier, and it sported one of the earliest MIDI implementations. We at CatSynth enjoy its sound indirectly through Cherry Audio’s Mercury 6 virtual instrument.
Murdoch and Daisy-Mae enjoy sitting in a bright spot atop a Yamaha Clavinova digital piano. The issue of Sound on Sound sitting on the music holder features the UDO Super Gemini.
Submitted by Pete Dolan via our Facebook page.
Dahlia and Rob Robinson show off their amazing studio. We’ve seen many of these instruments in past posts featuring Rob, Dahlia, and/or Persephone, so we’ll leave those as an exercise to the reader.
Jasper shares his latest composition on the Yamaha DX7ii classic FM synthesizer. We also see an Ensoniq ESQ1 on the lower shelf. Submitted by Samuel Mills.
Little more avant garde than I was looking for, dude. Let’s take it from the top.
Gracie shows proudly shows off a PPG Wave. Clearly putting her paw of approval as Quality Manager for Synthetic Dreamscapes.
Submitted via our Facebook page. You can see all of Gracie’s features on CatSynth via her tag.
With wavetable synthesis very much in vogue again, it’s a good time to look back at the PPG Wave, which was the OG for this type of synthesis using large palettes of small, carefully crafted waveforms to create rich timbres at the oscillator level, before the signal goes to any filters, amplifiers or such. Gracie is fortunate to have one of these originals to play.
Carl is getting ready to try out his patch on the Moog Moth-32 and DFAM.
Submitted by Austin Pierce via our Facebook page.
Milo proudly sits next to a freshly built version of the classic (EMS Synthi) VCS3. Submitted by Keith Winstanley via our Facebook page.
As mentioned, this is not an original VCS3, but a modern custom build that Winstanley recently completed.
It’s one I’ve been building on and off for about 10 years, just bought and installed the Ghielmetti patchbay, pin park and Predtopatch socket 🙂 It has a lot of features the original hadn’t but using original components and circuitry 🙂
We hope that Keith and Milo have a lot of fun playing their new instrument!
Rubia sits atop a vintage Sequential Six-Trak synthesizer and looks ready to pounce on the Casio VZ-1 (to the left). Above her, we see a Korg MS-10 analog synthesizer and in the lower right corner a vintage Rhodes.
From AxWax via Mastodon. AxWax and Rubia also have a new sample pack out featuring samples from a 40-year old Casiotone MT-70 keyboard. We at CatSynth look forward to checking that out.