General InfoThe new Jones Modular Video Synthesizer from Dave Jones Design follows the same basic system model used by Dave Jones since the early days of video synths.
Back in the mid 1970s Dave Jones was building video synthesizers as a "system" concept, though physically they were not plug in modules like the new system. That system concept revolved around two core devices: a sync generator and an "Output Amp", surrounded by a collection of video processing and control voltage processing devices. The system was tied together with a central patch panel. Instead of each processing device being a plug-in module, the early systems were built with groups of devices in rack mount cases and those cases all connected to the patch panel to connect them together.