A brand new ferocious breed Cherry Audio’s Octave Cat synthesizer is an emulation of The CAT duophonic synthesizer launched by Octave Electronics in 1976. Designed in collaboration with the designer of The CAT, the Octave Cat retains all of the grunt of the fats, wild sound of the unique {hardware} and reproduces its aggressive resonant filter. The Octave Cat options the versatile modulation, screaming oscillator cross-mode and tight oscillator timing of the unique {hardware}, plus enhanced polyphony, a robust built-in results suite, and a flexible two-step sequencer.
1976: 12 months of CAT :
Within the early Nineteen Seventies, transportable synthesizers have been a rarity and few musicians might afford the legendary Minimoog or ARP Odyssey synthesizers. Realizing this, a small group of engineers from New York Metropolis, led by the sensible 22-year-old Carmine Bonanno, determined to shake issues up and create reasonably priced synthesizers with revolutionary options, beginning Octave Electronics, which grew to become Octave-Plateau™.
Primarily based on their very own improvement of the modular system, Bonanno and his crew got down to create a synthesizer that will not solely be accessible to novice musicians, but in addition have revolutionary options. The result’s The CAT, a chic and easy-to-program mono/duophonic synthesizer with an revolutionary function set together with cross-mode, adjustable pattern and maintain, in depth modulation, twin sub-oscillators, combinable waveforms, two kinds of oscillator sync, and low cross filter with distinctive highly effective resonance.
Much more revolutionary was the 1976 worth of simply US$599, a watershed for musicians who couldn’t afford the costlier options. It attracted the eye of extra prosperous musicians, who praised its distinctive efficiency and flexibility. The CAT has been utilized by such notable digital artists as Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres within the Darkish, Dave Greenslade, Break up Enz (notably for the keyboard break on their hit “I Bought You”), and extra just lately by The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers.
The CAT synthesizer stays an iconic piece of musical know-how, embodying Octave’s legacy of groundbreaking innovation and relentless pursuit of creating audio and music know-how accessible to all.
