We are celebrating our 500th episode of CatSynth TV! Hard to believe we have made so many of these, but we have and we’re still having fun with it.
This one features numerous synthesizers, including the Octave CAT, Pocket Gamelan, and various instruments from Arturia, Cherry Audio, Moog Music, Strymon, MOK, Buchla, Metasonix, Make Noise, and more. There is also an appearance by Sam Sam at about the 1-minute mark.
Adorable kitten Molly is starting young with her effects pedals. She has a Merris Delay Polymoon, Pladask Baklengs granular effect, and Strymon El Capistan tape echo. From Flavigula on Mastodon.
A beautiful Russian blue cat with a Korg Minilogue, a Strymon Big Sky reverb pedal, and an Elektron Digitakt lurking in the shadows. From ee_split on Instagram.
Saruman gets ready for a live set with a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard, two pedals from our friends at Strymon – Timeline and Big Sky – and a pedal from Death By Audio. And a conch shell to boot. Looks like he has a great show planned for us.
Submitted by Héctor D. Genis (hdgenis) via Instagram.
Winchester (the cat) clearly loves being in the studio with his human and all their gear. We two Moog Mother-32s and another Moog synth to the right; a Sequential Pro One, the unmistakable blue of the Strymon Big Sky, and a device from Alesis in the lower right.
Submitted by Craig P. Smith via our Facebook page.
My little buddy Winchester loves being in my studio!
We love seeing cats and their humans happy together like this.
That is one patient cat! Just chilling in the corner for the entire concert.
I also quite like the combination of instruments: vintage Juno-60 and Oberheim Xpander synthesizers along with the newer Arturia MicroFreq, Sequential Rev2, Moog Sub37, and more.
By Martin Stürtzer on YouTube, via matrixsynth.
“It is time for another Ambient / Berlin School session! I prepared three long tracks with pads and sequences from the Oberheim Xpander, Waldorf Iridium, Roland Juno-60, Sequential Rev2, Moog Sub37, Arturia Microfreak and my modular system. All sounds are midi sequenced from Ableton. FX are coming from U-He Colour Copy, NI Raum. The Rev2 is connected to Strymon Timeline and Eventide H9. My Juno-60 is clocked from Ableton ‘CV Tools’ through an audio output of the RME 802. I am playing the Arpeggiator and hope to have a proper midi interface for it next time.”
A cool hardware jam with offerings from Roland, Eletrkon, Nord, Behringer, Arturia, Strymon, and more. Watch for the cat about halfway through.
Orion the cat lounges on a Novation LaunchPad Pro. Behind them we see a Strymon Big Sky reverb pedal, with its distinctive light blue color.
From orion_s_life on Instagram.
Daddy please let me play music with you!!!🥰😺😸
Big Merp likes to lie on the LaunPad Pro here at CatSynth HQ, too.
A cat sits in the command char or a small studio featuring the Serum wavetable software synthesizer, a large Eurorack system, an Arturia BeatStep Pro, Strymon Big Sky, and more. We are particularly curious about that small device with the grid of purple buttons. The cat, on the other hand, looks ready for a nap.
Bill enjoys the quarantine life with an Arturia MicroFreak and sundry Strymon pedals. Via our friends at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum.
You can see our visit to the Vintage Synthesizer Museum earlier this year in this video.
This was from the beginning of February. Not so long ago in time, but a world away from where we are now.