Synthesizers

Boris & Natasha with Arturia MicroFreak

Meet adorable kittens Boris and Natasha! We see them posing here with an Arturia MicroFreak (complete with vocoder mic).

Submitted by Darren Douglas Danahy, the human of the late great Hookah the Cat, via our Facebook page.

Hello CatSynth, it’s been almost a year since we lost our keyboard playing cat Hookah, but a week ago we adopted Boris and Natasha. Today I let them in the music room and they are ALL ABOUT IT.

We at CatSynth welcome Boris and Natasha to their new forever home, and look forward to seeing more of them in the future.

Chichiro and Doepfer Dark Energy Mk1

Tortie cat sniffing at a Doepfer Dark Energy, a small analog synthesizer module.

Chichiro inspects a Doepfer Dark Energy Mk1 synthesizer. Submitted by our friend Erik Ribeiro (@eriksuperlazy on Instagram).

The Doepfer Dark Energy was built around the Curtis CEM3394 “synth on a chip”. Curtis filter chips are well known and prolific in analog synthesizers, but this chip also includes a VCO and VCA – in short, a full synthesizer voice. It would definitely be fun to get hold of one of these, either packaged like the Dark Energy or on its own to experiment with.

Ringo and Waldorf Blofeld Soundscape

Ringer creates a soundscape with the Waldorf Blofeld. Submitted by our good friend Damien Olsen.

We also see a Line 6 delay pedal, Korg M50 and TR61 keyboard synthesizers, a Roland SP-404 SX sampler, and more.