I just took out the Korg Monologue for a knob cleanup and this void decided to lie down and sleep. I love you, Tuna. You deserve expensive beds (i.e.; our synths)
It’s Friday the 13th but not a bad luck with this adorable cat. This is Tuna, btw. That’s a Yamaha DX100 that he uses as his chair or bed. And that’s a mini-blep if you look closely.
Tuna sits on a Yamaha DX100 synthesizer, and Sora sits nearby. According to @thedigitalpurrgatory on Threads, they are looking at an orange stray cat that showed up in their home.
Perhaps this mysterious orange visitor will show up in a future CatSynth pic…
For Black Cat Appreciation Day, we have some photos of “Not-Tuna”, a black cat who looks a lot like our friend Tuna, with a Teenage Engineering OP-1. From thedigitalpurrgatory on Instagram.
Tuna naps atop a Novation Bass Station and a Yamaha DX7. From thedigitalpurrgatory on Instagram.
Tuna reclaiming his spot.
Presumably, Tuna is reclaiming from Sora, whom we saw napping on this same Bass Station a week ago. We at CatSynth know this territorial rivalry all too well, as Sam Sam and Big Merp are constantly vying for territory and resources (i.e., they are being cats).
Bread (orange) and Tuna (black) team up again. Bread is playing the Yamaha DX100 FM synthesizer and Tuna has his paws on the RX7 drum machine. Together, they are ready for some retro-1980s Yamaha-synth fun. From thedigitalpurrgatory on Instagram.
The RX7 is quite similar to the RX5 drum machine we have here at CatSynth HQ, and a fine instrument in itself – the only main differences are that the RX5 has separate outputs for different pads and more complex envelope editing. You can find out more about the RX5 (and by extension the RX7) in our recent demo and tutorial.
The Korg Poly-800 was a small affordable synthesizer that featured DCOs, a VCF, and MIDI. Its successor, the Korg Poly-800 II, was one of the first synthesizers I seriously looked at as a teen, but ultimately opted for a different instrument.