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I haven't watched the video yet, but there are definitely analog graphic synthesizers being made today, most notable those by https://www.lzxindustries.net/ htt
by 33degrees 9y ago
I haven't watched the video yet, but there are definitely analog graphic synthesizers being made today, most notable those by https://www.lzxindustries.net/ https://www.lzxindustries.net/
There are also quite a few software packages that implement analog synthesis techniques, like https://lumen-app.com/ https://lumen-app.com/ and http://v002.info/about/ http://v002.info/about/
- olewhalehunter 9y agowas going to say this equipment is still used quite a bit and there are many working survivors left
- kitotik 9y agoYou beat me to it. Much like vinyl, this stuff tends to maintain a pretty core following. The eurorack modular synth boom is certainly introducing a lot of new people to analogue video synthesis. Exciting times!
- snaky 9y ago> to analogue video synthesis Video? Eurorack and modular synthesizers of other format and kinds are about audio, right?
- LeoPanthera 9y agoEurorack analogue video is a thing. If you’re into learning more about modular synths I can highly recommend the docu-movie “I dream of Wires”.
- kitotik 9y agoYes, an excellent film! It’s all just voltage, but obviously with video oscillating at much higher rates. You use most ‘audio’ modules with video modules and vice versa. All the typical logic works like divide, mult, add, etc. It’s a really fascinating format!
- jhgb 9y ago"There are dozens of us! Dozens!"
- gt_ 9y agoYeah, it is not like vinyl. There are a handful at most in each big US city. The cost of entry is a ton of time learning from archaic resources, more time finding the devices and the money to accrue them.
- davesieg 9y agoThere were only 8 Scanimates produced. I have the first R&D machine and the last one produced. I've heard there may be one in storage in Japan, and two in storage in Luxembourg, but mine are the only two I know of that are plugged in and actually function.
- makomk 9y agoThat just appears to be a fancy pattern generator. The core trick of Scanimate is that it uses the analog synthesis circuitry to modify the raster scan of a CRT displaying an image, essentially allowing arbitrary images like logos to be animated smoothly in real time in very complex ways. Think of it as the analog equivalent of texture mapping.
- throwaway2048 9y agoyes, the direct interaction with the CRT involved in creating the images is essential here, the CRT isnt just displaying some framebuffer esque type image, its central to the actual resultant effects itself, this device would not function without a CRT.
- davesieg 9y agoI have to interject here...You could say Scanimate is a fancy pattern generator... You could also say that a violin is a fancy tone generator...