Tag: moog

  • CatSynth pic: Soft Lightning interview with I♥SYNTHS

    CatSynth pic: Soft Lightning interview with I♥SYNTHS

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    Interview with Soft Lightning by I♥SYNTHS.

    ♥SYNTHS: You love your cats. Are they a big inspiration to your music? What are their names and what synths do they like the most?

    Soft Lighting: I actually only have one cat and his name is Ziggy. My wife and I foster litters of kittens for our local shelter so we always have a bunch of new kittens around. They like ALL the synths and ALL the gear – especially hiding in the back of amplifiers.

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    There are quite a few more cat-and-synth photos in this post, I suspect a few more of them may show up here as well 🙂

    Via matrixsynth, where you can read all the interviews with well-known synth artists and see quite a bit of classic and modern gear.

  • CatSynth video: do re minor

    CatSynth video: do re minor

    A great demo track from Ebotronix on YouTube. Via matrixsynth. It includes an impressive array of synth gear. And watch for the cat in the corner 🙂

    4ms Peg, QCD / Expander, RCD, VCA Matrix
    Analogue Systems RS100²,RS110²²,RS 170,RS360²,RS500e²
    Arp Odyssey 2821 white noise
    Bananalogue VCS
    Cyndustries Zero Oscillator
    Doepfer R2m, A118, A134²², A143-2,A148,
    A 149-1, A151²²,A160/161, A175²²,A185-2, A 138c
    Flame Chord Machine²,Talking Synth Module²
    Grendel Formant Filter²
    flight of harmony choices
    Make Noise PP, Maths²,Moddemix²²,Optomix,QMMG,René, Woglebug²
    Malekko Anti Oscillator²² Uncle³,Jag
    Moog Freqbox²²,MP201
    Oberheim Sem
    Sherman Filterbank 2
    Simmons Clap Trap
    SSL Modulation Orgy
    Tip Top Audio Z8000 manual voltage source
    Toppobrillo Quantimator,Sportmodulator,TWF²
    Logic masterclock to Kenton Pro 2000² , QCD,Peg, RCD
    FX :Boss VF1,Lexicon MX 400,PCM 80, Line6 echopro,TC M one XL
    mackie the mixer³
    kick by RS110 Maths QMMG

  • NAMM 2014: Moog Theremini

    NAMM 2014: Moog Theremini

    The most notable new offering this year from Moog Music, Inc. was the Theremini, a very accessible incarnation of the classic theremin.

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    The design of the instrument evokes classic science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s (in which the theremin was a mainstay), and it features modern enhancements including a variety of tones and effects, support to stabilize pitch, and CV and MIDI for external control. And it’s MSRP is $299.

    I decided to try my hand at this fun and photogenic instrument.

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    You can see a bit of my attempt to perform one-handed in this video.

    I can see this being a great tool for live performance, both standalone and as a controller for analog synths. I look forward to learning more about it.

  • Weekend Cat Blogging with Luna: Minimoog!

    Luna and Minimoog

    Luna is inspecting the latest musical acquisition here at CatSynth HQ, a vintage Minimoog synth. She is always curious to check new arrivals out, with some close sniffing along with visual inspections. Then she looses interest. She is, after all, a cat.

    The astute (and synth-savvy) observer may also notice a Mixtape Alpha sitting on top of the Minimoog. Both instruments offer interesting possibilities, the the tiny Mixtape Alpha is more practical for live performance.

  • CatSynth pic and video: Zafo the Sub Phatty Cat

    CatSynth pic and video: Zafo the Sub Phatty Cat

    From Jonh Wei-Haas and our friends at Moog Music, Inc., we present Zafo, the Sub Phatty Cat.

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    By now, we’ve all seen Keyboard Cat. In the original video from 1984, a cat named “Fatso” plays a decade-approriate jam on his electronic keyboard. Nearly 30 years and 30 million views later, we have a successor to the Keyboard Cat throne. Armed with only a Moog synthesizer and plento of gusto, “Zafo” the Sub Phatty Cat treats his audience to 53 seconds of incredibly decade-appropriate jams in the video below.

    For more videos by John Wei-Haas, please visit his YouTube page.

  • 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: CV Sunday from Moog

    CatSynth pic: CV Sunday from Moog

    A nice surprise from our friends at Moog Music, Inc!.

  • CatSynth pic: Kitten on a Minimoog

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    From @moogmusic via Twitter, as part of an amusing conversation that also included matrixsynth.

    So which one do you think is the rescue, the kitten or the Minimoog?