Cherry Audio 发布 1976 年老式 CAT 建模合成器插件 Octave Cat

软件合成器专精品牌 Cherry Audio 为旗下的建模合成器系列再添一员，
Octave Electronics 在 1976 年出品的 CAT 合成器被做成插件端进 DAW 中！

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 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.

Cherry Audio 的 Octave Cat 合成器模拟了 Octave Electronics 于 1976 年推出的 CAT 双音合成器。
Octave Cat 是与 CAT 的原始设计师合作开发的，保留了原始硬件肥厚、野蛮、咆哮的声音，并复制了其激进的谐振滤波器。
Octave Cat 具有原始硬件的灵活调制、尖锐的振荡器交叉调制和激烈的振荡器同步能力，
并通过增加复音能力、强大的集成效果器群和多功能双步音序器对其进行了扩展。

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, which later became Octave-Plateau™.

CAT 所在的 1976 年
在 20 世纪 70 年代初期，便携式合成器还很罕见，只有少数音乐家才能买得起传奇的 Minimoog 或 ARP Odyssey 合成器。
认识到这一点，由 22 岁才华横溢的 Carmine Bonanno 领导的一小群纽约工程师决定进行彻底改革，
创造出具有创新功能的价格实惠的合成器，从而诞生了 Octave Electronics，即后来的 Octave-Plateau™。

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.
The result was The CAT synthesizer — an elegant and easy-to-program monophonic/duophonic synthesizer that offered an innovative combination of features
including cross-mod, configurable sample and hold, extensive modulation, dual sub-oscillators,
combinable waveforms, two types of oscillator sync, and a lowpass filter with uniquely powerful resonance.

Bonanno 和他的团队借鉴了自己的模块化系统设计，着手创建一款合成器，
该合成器不仅可以让新锐音乐家使用，而且还拥有突破性的功能。
CAT 合成器是一款优雅且易于编程的单音/双音合成器，它提供了创新的功能组合，
包括交叉调制、可配置采样和保持、全面的调制、双振荡器、
可组合波形、两种类型的振荡器同步和具有独特强大谐振的低通滤波器。

Even more revolutionary was the 1976 introduction price of only $599 - a game-changer for musicians who couldn’t afford more expensive alternatives.
It also caught the attention of more affluent musicians, who praised its exceptional performance and versatility.
Some of the biggest names in electronic music have used The CAT,
including Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Dave Greenslade, Split Enz
(notably for the keyboard break in their hit track, "I Got You"), and, more recently, The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers.

更具革命性的是 1976 年推出的价格仅为 599 美元，对于买不起更昂贵替代品的音乐家来说，这改变了游戏规则。
它还引起了更富裕的音乐家的注意，他们称赞其卓越的性能和多功能性。
一些电子音乐界的大腕都曾使用过 The CAT，
包括 Devo、Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark、Dave Greenslade、Split Enz
（尤其是他们热门单曲“I Got You”中的键盘音色），以及最近的 Prodigy 和化学兄弟。

The CAT synthesizer remains an iconic piece of music technology,
representative of Octave’s legacy of groundbreaking innovation and a relentless drive to make audio and music technology accessible to all.

CAT 合成器仍然是音乐技术的标志性产品，
代表了 Octave 突破性创新的精神以及让所有人都能使用音频和音乐技术的不懈努力。

Octave Cat: A Curious Collaboration
To preserve the legacy of this iconic synthesizer and provide today’s music producers with an ideal tool for production,
Cherry Audio has added another life to The CAT with the introduction of Octave Cat.
Cherry Audio Octave Cat expands upon the original with up to 16-voice polyphony, and adds a feature-packed “page two”
with distortion, phaser, flanger/chorus, echo, and reverb effects, as well as a super-flexible dual eight-step sequencer capable of modulating numerous parameters.

Octave Cat：一次奇妙的合作
为了保留这一标志性合成器的传统，并为当今的音乐制作人提供理想的制作工具，
Cherry Audio 推出了 Octave Cat，为 CAT 增添了新的生命。
Cherry Audio Octave Cat 在原始版本的基础上进行了扩展，具有多达 16 复音，并增加了功能齐全的 “第二页”，
包括失真、移相器、镶边/合唱、回声和混响效果，以及超灵活的双八步进音序器以及能够调制的众多参数。

Cherry Audio was thrilled to collaborate on Octave Cat with original designer and Octave Electronics founder, Carmine Bonanno.
Expressing deep admiration for the outcome of this collaboration, Carmine notes that Octave Cat feels and sounds just like the real instrument.
“Better yet,” he adds, “it goes way beyond what a hardware CAT is capable of.
For instance, on a hardware CAT, you can’t save a patch, you can’t control modulation with an external MIDI controller, you don’t have full polyphony, etc.”

Cherry Audio 很高兴能与原创设计师兼 Octave Electronics 创始人 Carmine Bonanno 合作开发 Octave Cat。
Carmine 对这次合作的成果表示深深的钦佩，并指出 Octave Cat 的感觉和声音就像真正的乐器一样。
“更好的是，”他补充道，“它远远超出了硬件 CAT 的能力。
例如，在硬件 CAT 上，您无法保存音色、无法使用外部 MIDI 控制器控制调制、没有完整的复音等。”

In addition to capturing the unique sonic character of the original, Cherry Audio added enhancements like sample and hold glide,
step-sequencing, MIDI clock sync, a suite of effects, and more.
“All of this,” says Bonanno, “makes the Cherry Cat incredibly more versatile than a hardware CAT.”

除了捕捉原版硬件独特的声音特征之外，Cherry Audio 还增加了采样和保持滑音、
步进音序、MIDI 时钟同步、一整套效果器等增强功能。
“所有这些，”Bonanno 说，“使得 Cherry Cat 比硬件 CAT 更加通用。”

Cherry Audio spared no effort to ensure that the Octave Cat was crafted with the utmost respect and attention to the original instrument’s signature features.
The result is a beautiful and fully realized piece of music technology
that will undoubtedly find its way into the hands of countless music producers in the years to come.
With Cherry Audio’s commitment to excellence and reverence for the original,
the Octave Cat stands as a testament to the possibilities that arise when innovation meets tradition!

Cherry Audio 努力的确保 Octave Cat 在制作时充分尊重和关注原版硬件的标志性功能。
最终开发出一套美丽且完全实现的乐器技术，
毫无疑问将在未来几年进入无数音乐制作人的手中。
凭借 Cherry Audio 对卓越的追求和对原创的尊重，
Octave Cat 证明了创新与传统相遇时所产生的可能性！

To get users up and running with Octave Cat, Cherry Audio and Tim Shoebridge have again teamed up to create an introductory tutorial video
walking users through the history and features of this purrfect new virtual synthesizer.

为了让用户熟悉并运行 Octave Cat，Cherry Audio 和 Tim Shoebridge 再次联手制作了一个介绍性教程视频，
向用户介绍这款完美的新型虚拟合成器的历史和功能。

Octave Cat Features
All aspects of the original CAT precisely modeled in exacting detail
Over 300 presets
Dual Panel Views with an authentic Main view for synthesis controls, and an additional FX/Seq panel with extended features
Monophonic, duophonic, and polyphonic (up to 16 voices) voice modes
Unison for mono and duo modes
Two distinct VCOs with discrete wave, modulation, S+H, and sub octave settings; VCO1 with saw, triangle, and pulse with PWM, and VCO2 with square and saw waveforms
Vintage-correct four-pole 24 db/oct filter, based on the original “cascaded OTA” SSM2040 filter with precise replication of The CAT’s unique resonance
Accurate reproduction of the original’s Transient Generators section with two envelope generators: a standard ADSR (attack/decay/sustain/release), and an AR (attack/release)
Sample and Hold with VCO1, VCO2, or Noise as source, with Glide that slews the voltage steps for smoother transitions
User-selectable Bend Depth, Octave Shift, and note Glide
Tempo-syncable LFO with onset delay
White noise generator
Classic-style dual-channel, eight-step sequencer, independently assignable to oscillator pitches, filter cutoff frequency and VCA amplitude, with tempo sync, quantization, and keyboard transpose
Studio-quality integrated effects: distortion with tube and fuzz, 2/4/8/12-stage phaser, flanger/chorus, three syncable delay types, and five reverb types
Selectable original “Mark I” or later-style “SRM” skin
Standalone virtual instrument and plug-in versions included
Channel pressure and polyphonic aftertouch as a polyphonic modulation source
Support for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) -- Pitch, Channel Pressure, and Timbre -- making Octave Cat capable of more organic and expressive performances when using MPE-compatible controllers
Complete MIDI control and DAW automation for all controls, with easy-to-use MIDI learn and mapping
Cherry Audio’s popular Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag
Complete documentation available directly online from the instrument or in downloadable PDF format
User-adjustable oversampling control

Octave Cat 特性：
原版 CAT 的所有方面均以严格的细节进行精确建模
超过 300 个预设
双面板视图，具有用于合成控制的真实主视图，以及具有扩展功能的附加效果器和音序器面板
单音、双音和复音（最多 16 复音）语音模式
单音和双音模式的叠加运用
两个不同的 VCO，具有离散波、调制、S+H 和亚倍频程设置； VCO1 具有锯齿波、三角波和带 PWM 的脉冲，VCO2 具有方波和锯齿波
复古正确的四极 24 db/oct 滤波器，基于原版 “cascaded OTA” SSM2040 滤波器，精确复制 CAT 独特的谐振
使用两个包络发生器准确再现原件的瞬态发生器部分：一个标准 ADSR（起音/衰减/延音/释放）和一个 AR（起音/释放）
使用 VCO1、VCO2 或噪声作为声源进行采样和保持，并使用可改变电压大小以实现更平滑过渡的滑移
用户可选择的弯音深度、八度偏移和音符滑音
具有起始延迟的速度同步 LFO
白噪发生器
经典风格的双通道、八步音序器，可独立分配给振荡器音高、滤波器截止频率和 VCA 幅度，具有速度同步、量化和键盘移调功能
录音室品质的集成效果器：电子管和法兹失真、2/4/8/12 级移相器、镶边/合唱、三种可同步延迟类型和五种混响类型
可选择原版 “Mark I” 或后来风格的 “SRM” 皮肤
包括独立虚拟乐器和插件格式版本
通道压力与和弦触后作为和弦调制源
支持 MIDI 和弦表达（MPE）——音调、通道压力和音色——使 Octave Cat 在使用兼容 MPE 的控制器时能够实现更自然和更具表现力的演奏
所有控制的完整 MIDI 控制和 DAW 自动化，以及易于使用的 MIDI 学习和映射
Cherry Audio 广受欢迎的 Focus 放大功能，以及标准界面缩放和通过拖动调整大小
完整的文档可直接从音源在线获取或以可下载的 PDF 格式获取
用户可调的过采样控制