Submitted by Brandon Douglas via Facebook. Cats and the OP-1 make a great combination.
Tag: Synthesizers
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CatSynth pic: Pumpkin and SK-1
Submitted by our friend Amber Brien of PAS Musique. Click here to read about their performance in San Francisco last year.
While my SK-1 does not function as a cat bed, I probably should make better use if it 🙂
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CatSynth pic: Soft Lightning interview with I♥SYNTHS
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.
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.
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CatSynth video: Lo sbadiglio di Cocco patch
From Joao Ceser on YouTube, via matrixsynth.
“Modular 😀
https://www.facebook.com/joao.ceser.fan””Quite a few familiar modules in that system, including a few we have here at CatSynth HQ. I also like how the cat gets some love during the demo 🙂
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CatSynth pic: Belly Rub?
From the blog Awesome Robo. Many of the pictures are familiar, but not this one with a belly-rub-inviting post similar to Luna’s from the weekend.
If you haven’t had a chance to, please check out our recent art and music reports here and here.
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CatSynth pic: Korg Mono/Poly and Charlotte the Cat
Some sad news via matrixsynth. One of our frequently featured synth cats, Charlotte, recently passed away.
Charlotte appeared in many photos featured on this site, often showing disdain for the synths. You can see a few examples here and here. She lived a good long life of 18 years, but it is still sad to lose a beloved pet, and our thoughts go out to her family.
The post on matrixsynth also featured some cool filtered images of the Korg Mono/Poly.
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CatSynth video: Bookie with Tiptop modular
Video by Benjamin Hawkins on YouTube. Also on matrixsynth.
“My cat is chilling with this Tiptop modular system”
I love how Bookie is so relaxed around synth music. Luna is the same way 🙂
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NAMM 2014: New WMD / Steady State Fate modules
Analog-module makers WMD had a strong presence at this year’s NAMM show. In addition to their existing offerings, which include both utility and more esoteric modules, they presented a set of devices that were jointly made with Steady State Fate (SSF). You can see a demo in this video.
It was fun how they made Zip, our trusty stuffed kitty, rock out to the modular 🙂
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Battle of the iPad Docks NAMM 2014: Miselu C.24 vs Focusrite iTrack
Once again, iPad docs were a popular offering at NAMM. Perhaps the most unusual and interesting was from Miselu, a small San Francisco-based company. The C.24 acts as a hard-shell case for a standard-size iPad, but opens up into a dock with a two-octave keyboard and other controls.
The keys, which feel quite different from standard keyboard/synth keys, are magnetic rather than mechanical, and include aftertouch. The connection to the iPad is via bluetooth, bypassing the issue of Apple’s changing the port shapes. And it includes a space for expansion controllers above the keyboard. This is an intriguing device, though it is not yet available.
The iTrack from Focusright is perhaps more conventional in the world of iPad docks. But what makes it different is that can support both iPad Minis and full-sized iPads.
It also includes audio support based on Focusrite audio technology and with mic and line level I/O. MIDI is supported via USB.
Both of these are interesting devices, it depends on ones need for portability and MIDI keyboard versus audio support.
