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Sunday Synth Jam: Stuck for ideas? Can’t get people to jam with you?

Then you might want to try out ChrisLody’s strange experimental ideas – the cat-controlled synth jam:

The keyboard at the top of the screen (a Yamaha SY-35) is midi’d into the lower keyboard (a Novation KS-5). The KS-5 is programmed with a simple arpeggio patch I created which can be played from the SY-35.

Then I covered the keys of the SY-35 with cat biscuits and let my kitten Daisy loose on it. I was then able to control some aspects of the sound with conrols on the KS-5.

I think she got wise to me about half way through as she stopped standing on the keys.

Damn kitty!

Of course – teach a cat to control your synthesizer and they’ll go on to control your sequencer….and then the world!

Matrix is getting his daughter Alexandra off to a good start – letting her rock the theremin at 15 months. Read more…

In this over-the-top cute video, kitties play a mini theremin. And try to eat it, too.

via widtaria:

As movies “cats playing a theremin” on YouTube were fun to me, I got to want to buy one and let my cats play it.

MeowSynth is a free “meowizer” synthesizer for Windows.

Features:

• 1x oscillator meowing with auto-filter.
• Velocity sensitive.
• Mono- and polyphonic modes.
• Visual feedback.
• Internal chorus.
• Tempo synced vibrato with controlled attack.

If you’ve used MeowSynth, leave a comment with your thoughts!

via knobstervideo