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  • CatSynth: The App! 2.5.0 for iOS Released

    We have a new version of CatSynth: The App! available on the Apple App Store. This is a tremendous update. The best version of CatSynth: The App! ever. We have rethought the user experience while preserving the distinctive style. It also happens to match Sam Sam’s markings quite nicely.

    It is smoother and simpler to browse and read articles on your mobile device. And for the built-in Mystery Synths, we have added MIDI input support!

    You can play the synths with an external MIDI controller or sequencer using either the network or (on iPads) a class-compliant MIDI USB device. We will have some video demos of this soon.

    If you have an iOS device, please do try out the app and let us know what you think! 😺


    CatSynth: The App! on iTunes

  • CatSynth pic: Circuit Bending

    circuit bending with cat toy and others

    Some epic circuit bending anchored by a cat keyboard toy 😸

    From mondofreeko_68 on Instagram.

    I’m pretty sure we at CatSynth have that toy around here somewhere…

  • CatSynth pic: Kisses and Modular


    Kisses the kitten explores a modular synth setup. We think kisses is adorable 😻

    By our friend Julia Moore, aka Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Juli Amore. Please do check out her music.

  • CatSynth video: Cleo and microKORG

    CatSynth video: Cleo and microKORG

    Adorable black kitten with a microKORG synthesizer. By Duck (@duckband_uk) on Twitter, submitted to @catsynth on Twitter via Dan Kletter.

    Hi Cleo, so nice to meet you 😺

  • CatSynth Audio: “Side Hookah” from Hookah the Cat

    CatSynth Audio: “Side Hookah” from Hookah the Cat

    We have a new audio release from our friend Hookah the Cat! 😺

    Hello, my first official release came out this week. I played every sound on it, my human merely recorded it. Availabe as digital or on a split cassette with the lasse jensen trio. https://stilletid.bandcamp.com/track/side-hookah

  • CatSynth Pic: Cats and Moogerfoogers

    A couple of cats exploring Moogerfooger pedals. From our friends at Moog Music, Inc.

    Really feline the effects this Caturday.

    📷: tareh78 on IG

    Oy vey 😸

  • Alice-in-Wonderland-Themed Anti-Drug PSA with Synth Soundtrack

    Alice-in-Wonderland-Themed Anti-Drug PSA with Synth Soundtrack

    Via Dangerous Minds, we have this rather trippy PSA from 1971 using Alice in Wonderland as a frame for discussing the dangers of drugs.

    The original was created by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (forerunner to the current Health and Human Services department) and can be found in the National Archives.

    In hindsight, the video probably fails miserably at its mission – indeed, much of past decades’ anti-drug campaigns seem rather foolish in hindsight. But the imagery is gorgeous and quite captivating, as is the soundtrack. We at CatSynth in particular quite light the sparse synth music. And the cats, both the Cheshire Cat and the real-life cat that appears at the beginning and end 😺. Anyone care to identify the synth(s) used?

  • CatSynth: Kitten, MicroKORG, and Reaktor

    Kitten atop a MicroKORG synthesizer in the background of a computer running Reaktor software. From demituxford on Instagram, where you can see it as a video loop.

    demituxfordI pay £7500 a year to make things like this. Uni has been good 2 me 🐈. #catsynth #reaktor

  • CatSynth Pic: Lucy and Eventide Space

    Lucy the cat naps with her Evntide Space reverb pedal. Submitted by machew via Instagram.

    “Lucy loves space #catsynth”

  • CatSynth pic: Moog, Sequential, and Sunshine

    From electricityforprogress on Instagram.

    My second #catsynth post. Buffy in the window on a sunny 70° February day. I know, the realistic Moog isn’t plugged in…Yet. Also remember, #televisionisdrugs (thanks mom!)

    We love sunshine and 70-degree February days. And the synths, too.