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Rhodes Chroma Polaris

Black and white cat standing behind a vintage analog synth (Chroma Polaris)

A beautiful cat stands behind the beautiful and underappreciated synthesizer, the Chroma Polaris.

From this Reverb listening, as seen on matrixsynth.

I have a soft spot for the Polaris, as it was the first synth I owned (on sale at Sam Ash in New York at a time when the DX7 was taking over). At the time, I didn’t fully appreciate how analog synthesis worked the way I do now – it would be great to play one again (and do a demo for CatSynth TV).

The cat reminds me a bit of our friend Gracie.

Acxel Resynthesizer and Rhodes Chroma

From Kevin Kelly of The Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum, via matrixsynth:

The Technos Acxel is an interesting synthesizer, based on manipulation of spectra in the frequency domain. This is something several of us have been doing in software for quite a while.

In addition to the Acxel and the Rhodes Chroma, I see an E-MU EMAX in the background.