CATSTICK - Modulation, that's what synthesizers are all about. It's "modulation" that gives dynamics to your synthesizer performances. Bending a note, adding growl, vibrato, trills, that's all modulation. Up until now, you relied on sliders, knobs, rib bons, wheels and pedals to vary your modulation expression. Each device needed a hand (or foot) to control each modulation depth. One hand for vibrato, one for filter sweep, another to bend notes. Sometimes you'd end up with more modulation needs than your hands or feet could handle! The new CATSTICK synthesizer controller frees your creativity by letting you control 4 different modulation depths with ONE HAND!

Utilizing a convenient "return-to-zero" spring-loaded joystick, two internal LFO's four internal VCA's and internal voltage processors, the CATSTICK allows you to obtain a different type of modulation for each of the four joystick direc tions; forward, backward, left and right. These directions, labeled Y1(forwardY), Y2(backwardY, X1 (left x) and X2 (right x), each have separate VCA and Control Voltage sections (see panel) so that each direction of joystick movement can have its own particular modulation setting. And, the versatile output patching system provides you with independent control voltages, mixed control voltages and in dependent VCA operation for use with any patchable synthesizer.