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We've been pursuing modular video synthesis goals
for some time now, however any way we've diced it, 
it requires a fair investment in new system infrastructure
and we've started paving the way for that by offering our
8-Inch Video Monitor Modules which are not only 
NTSC/PAL capable, but also provide touch-screen 
navigation as high resolution computer monitors for 
computer/MIDI interfaces such as our Cynthia Macintosh
or a Windows computer.  Have one of each in your rig 
if you like!

Very High Frequency Oscillators are also handy for 
Video Synthesis, and Zeroscillators happen to work 
all the way up to one hundred and sixty Kilohertz.

Another big decision is that of connectors and interface, 
and at this level our heads explode in many directions
including analog vs. digital, and one has to look at the 
availability of the necessary components and their 
present and future availability vs. going totally 
code warrior...

I've been collecting interesting analog video effects boxes 
over the years to study them, and have acquired a fair 
collection of video schematics, but either the numbers have 
all been sanded-off of the chips inside of the boxes (bastards) 
or the right chips with proper numbers are now unobtainium!
Many roads lead back to ~physical~ video synthesis requiring 
either the physical modification of the yoke of a deep glass
tube type video monitor, or the presence of both monitor and 
video camera looking into each other where with the use of 
knobs attached to crystals or diffraction grating by little wands
or voltage controlled servos, one could do early types of video
feedback synthesis, however these approaches strike me as
inelegant and some sort of Suzy Bake Oven toy type nightmare, 
and just I don't want to go there!  

"A panther never hesitates mid-leap" is a personal philosophy
and entering into the video synthesis arena is not something 
we will do half-heartedly, so we are still at the drawing board
on video and open to offers and suggestions. If you are a 
video engineer and interested, please contact us. We want to 
go in this direction, but only if we can do it totally right.

Cynthia