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Cherry Audio’s Octave Cat synthesizer emulates The CAT duophonic synthesizer unleashed by Octave Electronics in 1976. Developed in partnership with The CAT’s original designer Octave Cat ($49 MAP/$69 List) retains all the growl of the original hardware’s fat savage sound and replicates its aggressive resonant filter.
Octave Cat features the flexible modulation screaming audio-range oscillator cross-mod and fierce oscillator sync of the original hardware and extends it with expanded polyphony a robust integrated effects suite and a versatile dual-step sequencer. 1976: The Year of The CAT In the early 1970s portable synthesizers were a rarity and only a select few musicians could afford the legendary Minimoog or ARP Odyssey synthesizers.
Recognizing this a small group of engineers in New York led by the brilliant 22-year-old Carmine Bonanno decided to shake things up and create affordable synthesizers with innovative features giving birth to Octave Electronics. Drawing from his own designs for a modular system Bonanno and his team set out to create a synthesizer that was not only accessible to up-and-coming musicians but also boasted groundbreaking features.
