Would it be a feat of engineering to create a small/medium sized
modular panel containing a polychromatic pattern generator that
responds to audio or cv input? Ideally it would have a consumer grade
phono/RCA video output jack and various parameters controlled by CV.
--- In The_Cyndustries_List@yahoogroups.com, Richard Brewster
<pugix@...> wrote:
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> I actually built analog video synthesizers while working with David
> Jones at the Experimental TV Center in the seventies.
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> http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/index.html
> http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/djones/djones.htm
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> See the two yellow boxes with black knobs in the upper right of the
> photo of David? It is an analog synthesizer I built for the ETC.
I am
> mentioned on the site, but they don't know what I did really. It says
> something about a video switcher. I do remember building a video
matrix
> switcher (8 inputs routed to any of 8 outputs I think). But I don't
> remember the details.
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> http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/brewster/brewster.htm
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> Analog video requires a 10Mhz bandwidth. In those days it had to be
all
> discrete transistors. Now days, I imagine there are high slew rate op
> amps that could handle video. For high quality you would want
> multi-layer PC boards. Shielding is a much bigger concern; you use a
> lot of coax internally. The standard connector is a BNC jack. One of
> the things David and I worked on was interfacing audio and video
> synthesizers. David's voltage controlled video mixers, keyers, and
> colorizers could be controlled by LFO's, Envelope Generators, and so
forth.
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> We had a limited budget, so the quality of the signal suffered in some
> of the prototypes (bleed-through, and video sent through scratchy
> pots). David kept improving his designs and had his own business
> later. Seems he still has it.
>
> http://www.djdesign.com/
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> Richard Brewster
> http://www.pugix.com
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> > I can't think of another modern modular company that is better poised
> > to create a video synthesizer module.
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> > Why are there no analog video synths being made? It seems like the
> > idea behind the Atari Video Music could be incorporated into a single
> > module.
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/videomusic/videomusic.html
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> > Dan Sandin's modular analog Image Processor designs are available for
> > license; they would make a neat set of modules.
> > http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/sandin/sandin.htm
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> > Aside from a sea of blinking LEDs, the visual possibilites of modular
> > synthesis are basically unexplored.
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