Synth Wizards Episode 10: Don't F**k With Cats 

Gerald was the man. He struck me as a real character, hate to hear he had to leave us.

We love you Gerald ❤️ you’ll be always in our hearts 🙌

THEY CUT A KEYBOARD IN HALF WITH A CHAINSAW, AFTER A DRAG RACE. This is the best synth channel possible.

Doctor mix, Florian from Bad Gear, Lookmumnocomputer, and Alex ball?!?! Y’all are setting the bar high for 2021. Thank you Syntaur!!

You guys did an amazing job with this video. EPIC

DUUUUUUUDE!!! THIS IS A MOVIE!!!!! 😍

1 million subs is where this channel should be at. Amazing stuff!

"Infinity War was the most ambitious crossover event in history," Syntaur: Hold my beer

A highly underrated synth channel, excellent journey through this restoration project. Condolences for Gerald, RIP.

This was great - entertaining, funny and educational. My tech just fixed my Odyssey with that exact scaling problem - I'll ask if he just cleaned the board! RIP Gerald.

Love your videos! Can’t wait to see what you do with the Cat! My condolences to you and Gerald’s family.

Damn, sorry for your loss guys. Gerald seemed like an awesome dude, I remember the prank you pulled on him making him think it was Sunday and he came at work 😂 On another note, the production quality on this video is insanely good! This is paid streaming service worthy! And the content is dope as usual, keep it up!

This may be niche, but I think it's my favourite video ever. To be a synth tech... I guess I'll see where the Rhodes take me.

I really love your documentaries, the effort you put in is really appreciated.

RIP Gerald :-( The video was, as usual, highly entertaining - and it had some great gags, visuals and photography. Really enjoyed it.

Best synth channel. I love you guys ❤️❤️

RIP, Gerald. Condolences to the Syntaur team.

Have to say: Henry is STILL CUTE! 🐈

That end jam was crazy good! Time to put out an album. Attack of the Syntaurs

this video has EVERYTHING! ALL My favorite synth guys and CATS.

RIP Gerald, you will be missed :(

Where's the cat synth? Behringer: hold my beer

This was great! Your productions keep getting better and better. I'll have to install those bushings I bought from you a while ago on my Cat. RIP Gerald.

Sorry to hear about Gerald, may he rest in peace. I came across your channel and loved this video because I have The Kitten Synthesizer and ordered the rubber bushings for my keys from your company! Thank you so much what a difference! Just a few more repairs and it'll be new and keeping it original (don't want the Kitten police on me) Just subscribed to your channel, can't wait to see more 😀

Poor Carlos can’t seem to get a break between calibrating these synths and reading old manuals. that lead sound was absolutely killer!!

Man! This is so great, love these Synth wizard episodes!! Awesome collabs as well!! love to see the "synth guys" from youtube ganging up together such an amazing community

one of the best shows on youtube period.

This is one of the best channels on youtube. Thanks for documenting a piece of history.

Loving the new production quality!! Great stuff

Rest in peace Gerald, amazing journey with this synth, such a nice video, Thanks and stay safe guys !!

i feel so bad for crying out on the comments seemingly wanting another episode of Synth wizards but I know see that these videos take their sweet time to create. the time between this and the next episode is soooooo long and now I get why, so much care and attention is taken to make these amazing videos and seeing the final product I can see it will be worth the way, so please take as much time u need to make sure the next episode is entertaining and u give up amazing content and we the syntaur family will wait on u. 🥺🥺 P.S. I low key like Kayla 🏃🏾‍♂🏃🏾‍♂🏃🏾‍♂

Ya I love your guys channel and have liked the other vids, but this is truly a step up in production quality. I am with the doctor it's a movie. Keep it up the world needs synths! -best Clayton

Best series on RU-vid! R.I.P. Synth Wizard Gerald

I love my Cat. It's such an appropriately named thing. I swear it has a mind of its own. Nice to see it getting some love.

That intro was fantastic and made me realize what a synth freak I am becoming...

Can't believe I only just found this channel, the production quality is incredible!

I LOVE that you still called her Henry after finding out her gender 🤣

Great episode! Glad to have you back. The cat's out of the bag! RIP Gerald and Henry.

I've been working on an Octave Cat SRM for the last few weeks. It has a lot of problems and was driving me INSANE for a couple days, but I finally cracked it. The biggest issue was that some of the old trimmers were shorting and I didn't know it, which was throwing off my measurements. Once I got that sorted, I was able to isolate the main problem to a dead 3046 transistor chip, which is the chip that actually oscillates. Just bought a couple chips and tomorrow I should have it up and running. :)

i love how professional these productions are getting , cant wait to see the next one , nice little synth history lesson

This was a great episode. I have just started watching but its sad to see Gerald go, condolences to his family and all who loved him.

Really excellent film. What a great track at the end of the video - happy I watched it all. Condolences for your loss of Gerald.

awesome video and really loved the track you put together at the end!

Thank you guy’s, I enjoy so mucho your program today. The Cat has that 70’s stamp sound, that now days is a little bit hard to emulate with another analog synth 👌😊

Always a delight. And lovely to see you reaching out to our other synth nerd heroes. Very sad to hear about Gerald. He seemed like a nice, calm guy. Love the track at the end. Do more of this! Thanks guys, hope I'm in Texas one day.

WOW the production value is just skyrocketing

A few thoughts: Helluva catch, Sam! Love that smoking man scene at 6:55. Straight out of X-Files Rest in peace, Gerald. You always brought a smile to my face in the Synth Wizards episodes you were on.

Just wanted to say sorry for your losses. RIP Gerald and Henry xx

Saving cats is definitely the way to go.

RIP Gerald. You can't replace the knowledge and know-how he contained. He will be forever remembered.

Always happy when you guys post, so many funny moments, thanks for making your videos.

RIP Gerald, condolences to his family and all who knew him x

Loved all the cameos!! I recognized every single one of those youtubers :)

Dude, this was awesome! I love documentary flow to this

Wow! This was great walk down memory lane. Thanks SO much. I was given a Kitten by a friend of mine who worked for Octave Plateau in Yonkers, New York back in 1984. I became very fond of the keyboard bypass and used it mostly to generate waveforms hands free. BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS. Sadly, when I moved from Brooklyn to the Bronx, I put my gear in storage and the precious Kitten was stolen along with all my gear. Two years ago, Behringer came out with a CAT clone which I gladly purchased. It's SO good to have those sounds back. Have you experimented with any of the Behringer clones like the CAT?

THE CAT SYNTHESIZER! By Octave, I use to own one back in the eighties. I bought it from a pawn shop and played it a lot. The Cat synthesizer was a great way to learn the principles analog. Mine needed to be fully restored but I sold it when I moved. I wish I kept and restored it, a great and fun investment it would have been.

"Rhodes.. we dont need Rhodes...".. Well.. any extra, send them this way! I've never gotten to play on a real one!! :-)

YES!!! Love the cameos! Cool demo section at the end. So many surprises in this one.

you guys are awesome, I saw just one video on the arp oddysey adding potentiometers and I am already hooked. Great source of knowledge with a tad of humor here on "cats".

Nothing gets you stoked to play with synths like a new Syntaur episode!! Keep it up I love every video you have made RIP Gerald Dentro ❤️

Look at this video quality level up!

Sad you lost a great electronic friend and then your cat too. So many top British where I come from know of your greatness.

Man, what an unpleasant surprise. RIP Gerald.

This was absolutely amazing, bravo.

How come there is so much filmmaking passion in these episodes?

Loving the Cameos! Fantastic!

AWESOME! as always! - Meow!

Thanks for a lovely program, sorry about you college Gerald,

Auto repeat envelope is such a useful (and creatively interesting) feature. I don't know why it's not implemented on more synths.

I've got a Cat Octave. Last time I checked it , there was no steady oscillation, just mosquitos. I wrote and documented about 200 or more sounds for it back in the 1980's. It was a lot of fun. I guess it's time to refurbish it!

thank goodness for the audio input connector.....every synth should have one, period.

Very well made, entertaining, and educating! Love it!

Jam-packed with puns and goodness! Sorry to heard about Gerald and Henry...

Rest easy Gerald. Glad to see you all are still pushing through these tough times.

I still have my CAT Octave that I found in a Goodwill back in the 80's for $20. I love my CAT. You should hear it purrr😻

This is my first video from this channel and i subscribed and hit notifications within the first 25 seconds

Rest In Peace, Gerald. What a guy xxx

Great to see a new video from you guys. The cat/kitten is a great sounding synth 😊 Also sorry to hear about Gerald. May he rest in peace.

Awesome! Keep making these, please!

Fabulous work thanks. Good tines

Great and goofy video. I rebushed my Arp Odyssey with your bushings, keyboard plays great now.. Some of those "j wires" need repair though... Thanks for everything. RIP Gerald.

I actually had one of these in the repair shop I managed in Orlando Fl. we cleaned it up and was a blast to play with. I sold 2 weeks later..

The used to be everywhere and cheap as dirt. That synth is a great design, literally a nice cross between an ARP Odyssey and a Minimoog. They sound great and are easy to work with...

Good Lord, I had a CAT back in the late 70s. Paid for it with summer job money. Keys cracked when they played, and you couldn't keep it in tune with a loaded weapon. I gave up on trying to play it and traded it in for a few hundred dollars ten years later. Sounded like a poor man's Arp Odyssey (which is exactly what it was). Finding someone who's deliberately looking for one is like discovering a Yugo collector.

Thoughts: - RIP Gerald, a funny and super smart guy! - Cats (synths) are great, the feline variety are alright (a dog guy myself) - Look at all those cameos! Next you'll be blending in the other youtube crowd (loopop / hainbach / red means recording) - Noticeable up tick in video production, great effort! - The jokes are Dad jokes and are amazing - Keep it up guys and gals!

Holy shit that synth sounds great. And you are a great film maker!

What a great, great episode. Inspired, funny as all get out and bittersweet as well. I feel my day was better having found this.

Thanks for the video from Hamburg, Germany.This is very educating. Cool!

Thank you for my ASR-10 parts. Delta airlines busted my ASR-10 up good and you saved the day.

my srm is one of the early fixer uppers i got from janet pilgrim in canada! love that machine...in new setup between 2600 and cs15D

Doctoooooooooor Mix!!!!

I have a kitten which I found years ago at a car boot sale. The seller sold it to me for £15 and it came with the original user manual!! It was in really great condition but I thought it sounded okay but a little thin compared to other synths like the Moog Prodegy I have also. It's in storage at the moment but I will have to get back and try it out. You've definitely sparked my interest in it again 👍 😀

Killer jam the end! Thanks for sharing. R.I.P. G.

Love that Ron is wearing his Tom Bailey T-Shirt!! Good man Ron! Nice surprise to see you here mate.

Oh when continuing watching. I realize I got the SRM version aswell.

Really sorry to hear the sad news about Gerald. He was a character. Great video as always, thank you.

That filter sounds like the ARP 4072 filter with the over the top resonance. A really sweet sounding filter.

Man, I missed your humour. Glad to be back here.

I bought a NOS CATStick (see video on my channel) from Carmine around 2012. He was also selling NOS CAT SRM, but I opted not to buy one already owning an ARP 2813.

Welcome to the family, Ron!