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  • Cat Composes Horror Music

    Cat Composes Horror Music

    This kitten performs a semi-tonal improvisation with string sounds. From [LEL TV] Strange Musician Life on YouTube.

  • Metasonix, Qu-Bit, Native Instruments, and White Cat

    Metasonix, Qu-Bit, Native Instruments, and White Cat

    This cat has a pretty awesome Metasonix setup, with several yellow modules and stomp. We also see offerings from Qu-Bit and Native Instruments.

    From davidlevymusic on Instagram.

    Here’s some UAC (light combat) stuff!

    The main synths are running through several parallel stages of distortion (tube+solid state), waveshaping, heavy compression and harmonic saturation.💀

    The cat, on the other hand, isn’t running through anything and is completely unprocessed! 🐁

    Speaking of the cat, notice how he’s watching my every move, like he’s learning.
    I’m convinced he’s plotting to take over my career one day! 🤔

    https://www.instagram.com/p/COg-GyoBSbr/
  • Tweek with Arturia MiniBrute and OTO Biscuit

    Tweek with Arturia MiniBrute and OTO Biscuit

    Tweek the kitten sits behind an Arturia MinIBrute synthesizer and OTO Biscuit 8-bit effects processor.

    A young Tweek sits beyond an Arturia MiniBrute analog synthesizer (original edition) and OTO Biscuit 8-bit effects processor. A fine combination of cats and synths in a moody black-and-white photo.

    Submitted by Antoine Marronclɘs via our Facebook page.

    You can see Tweek’s previous appearances on CatSynth hhttps://catsynth.com/tag/tweekere.

  • Cat at the Console

    Cat at the Console

    This cat is in charge at the console and ready to mix his next hit record. Submitted by Dirk Vanstraelen via our Facebook page.

    Identification of the synth in the background is left as an exercise to the reader.

  • Louis and Samson Patchbay

    Louis and Samson Patchbay

    Louis is quite excited about this new Samson patchbay, or at least the box it came in. By Justin Saunders.

    “Boring Gear Monday! My patchbay finally arrived. It’s cool how a simple device opens up possibilities for recording and effects chains. Also, Louis appreciates a new box now and then :-D”

    Patchbays are among those under-appreciated but very useful pieces of studio gear, especially when one has a lot of synthesizers and I/O channels. I take mine for granted.

  • Green Cat and Moog Modular

    Green Cat and Moog Modular

    This cat has some amusing photos in front of a Moog modular. The images are also rather…green. You can see more in the Instagram post from dj.wadada embedded below.

  • Milali and Roland Juno-106

    Milali and Roland Juno-106

    Milali returns, this time strolling atop a Roland Juno-106. We also see a Roland SH-101, and the MS-20 and Future Retro Revolution from her previous appearance.

    From midiride via Instagram.

  • Korg Poly 800 and Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man

    Korg Poly 800 and Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man

    Tom Petty (the cat) lounges on a Korg Poly 800, We also see an Eletro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man near by. It looks like he is getting ready to for some serious drone music.

    From nonbinarysynthesis via Instagram.

    Drone master 😭

  • Pinkie and Ensoniq VFX

    Pinkie and Ensoniq VFX

    Pinkie the cat and Ensoniq VFX

    Pinkie has just written a new sound patch on the Ensoniq VFX and she is very proud of it 😺. Submitted by Edda Jayne Hill via our Facebook page.

    She will probably switch on the Atari ST and get a sequence going next 👍

    Sounds like a great combination. The VFX was the successor to the Ensoniq SQ-80, a flexible wavetable synthesizer that could achieve complex timbres by shifting through different waveforms, a technique pioneered by the PPG Wave. It was released at about the same time as I got my Ensoniq EPS (as I was very focused on sampling at the time). But the VFX is particularly intriguing now as we are in the midst of a proliferation of wavetable-based instruments.

    The Atari ST is another interesting electronic-music artifact from the late 1980s, but that’s a story for another time.

  • Cat Pianist

    Cat Pianist

    Remember the Jeffin Rodegheri and Cat duo from a couple of weeks ago? Here is another video featuring the same feline pianist. Once again, the playing is quite musical, and the cat’s adorable cooing adds a nice touch.

    Regular readers know I have long been intrigued by these feline musicians. This is one of the best musically, along with Nora. Nue and the rest of the Rock cats are a lot of fun. The OG Keyboard cat was human-directed, so not quite the same (though I adore him and his successors as well). Do you have any favorite musical cats?