One of the original inventors and creators from the analog video synthesizer movement of the 1970s is back with a new video synthesis system. Dave Jones, well known in the video art world for his original and creative tools for artists, is proud to announce a new series of video processing tools in modular form.
The new Jones Modular Video Synthesizer system from Dave Jones Design is a series of modules designed to be compatible with the popular Eurorack format of audio synthesizers, made popular over the past decade by Doepfer and other audio module manufacturers. These video modules fit in the same racks, use the same power supplies, and accept control voltages from current Eurorack audio modules widely available around the world.
Dave Jones has a reputation for creating machines with high image quality and unique processing methods. His equipment is in the private studios of well known video artists around the world as well as being the core image processing equipment used at the Experimental Television Center since the mid 1970s. His designs have always been voltage controlled devices, and interestingly have always used the same control voltage levels currently popular in the Eurorack format (+/-5 volts).
The new Jones Modular Video Synthesizer system is in the final stages of development and is expected to be released in 2011.
The system will include a set of core modules needed to allow video in and out of the system, and then a series of analog and digital video processing modules. The user can pick and choose from a large selection of processing modules to build their own custom video synth with the types of processing that they want to use. Many of the modules are based on original modules created in the 1970s and 1980s by Dave Jones, as well as new modules using ideas he has come up with over the past couple of decades.
Stay tuned to this site for more information as it becomes available over the next couple of months.