via this auction.Details:
The original CAT Synthesizer was released in 1975 when the company now called Voyetra Turtle Beach, INC was called Octave Electronics. The second version called the CAT SRM (for "Series Revised Model"), was released in 1977, followed by the SRM2 in 1980. By that time the company had merged with Plateau Electronics and the company name changed to Octave-Plateau Electronics,Inc.
The Cat analog synthesis design served as the basis for the Voyetra Eight Synthesizer released in 1982. The Voyetra Eight's rich sound was utilized by such artists as Edgar Winter, Bon Jovi, The Eurythmic, Stevie Wonder and many other famous artists of the early 1980's. A copy of the first literature for the Voyetra Eight is included with the CAT instruction manual.
This CAT SRM 2 was the last of 100 units manufactured in 1981. These units were stored in a warehouse for 20 years and were intended for distrubution on the 25th anniversary of the CAT debut. As such this is a "Collector's Edition" CAT Synthesizer representing the art of analog music synthesis in the days before MIDI, programmability and digital synthesis."
"...stored in a warehouse for 20 years..."
ReplyDeleteC'mon...that sounds insane. Has anyone else ever heard of these 100 "brand new" 20yr old Cats? I just can't bring myself to believe this.
This tallies with what the Cat's designer says in an interview on a Cat fansite.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the thing is that the Cat SRM2 is sonically the least interesting model - just boring old CEM chips, rather than the all-discrete original cats or the SSM SRM ones