PM Pitch Analyzer by Voice Identification INC

found this super cool thing listed being sold via this auction a while back looks like some kind of lab/analytical equipment but it has a BNC video output!

"Up for auction is a very intriguing PM Pitch Analyzer from VII Voice Identification, Inc. We are not sure of everything it does, but our simple experiments with a monitor allow us to get a wide variety of readings from an external audio source. Great for a new circuit bending project! There are buttons for sample rate, smooth, shift, freq scale, amp ref., load program and more. Some of the input/outputs include Mic, Line, BNC Video, printer remote. There is also a sort of pen that looks like it can be used to change the video gain, height, right edge, horiz synch, gain/balance. Some of the chips inside include: AMD 8520DPP NEC D8085AHC, D8085AHC-2, -5 Intel 82716-1"

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By Dogsnakes

The Arduino Eye Shield

The Arduino Eye Shield by David Chatting is a circuit board that can be plugged on top of the Arduino allowing it to interpret analogue video (PAL or NTSC) from a camera or other source. It gives the Arduino the power of sight. I can see allot of potential for interesting live video manipulation here!

Narrat1ve Video synthesizer

another video synth in development but this time a stand alone product from the maker of the excellent WTPA sampler kit 

sporadic info here 

GDEIP THE DIY VIDEO SYNTH

This video synth built by youtuber antizarzutzki has 7 different CV inputs and is fairly compact at 4x10 inches (the same size as a sandin IP module) Cool!

LZX VISIONARY VIDEO SYNTHESIZER

very exiting stuff happening in the modular video synth market with two product ranges set to grace more experimental racks everywhere with modules to create and manipulate video signals 


the LZX Industries project seems to be going full steam and is very exiting check http://vimeo.com/7970725 and http://vimeo.com/lzxindustries for more info. I think its really good to build up customer support by posting these kind of dev/demo videos interesting stuff!


Lars Larsen one of the guys behind the project corrected my earlier conjecture about the The Jones Video Synth being the same project as the Visionary


"Hi Chris! Thanks for mentioning the Visionary. This isn't the same project, but ours will similarly be a EuroRack format modular video synthesizer/processing system. There is a splash page up at http://www.lzxindustries.com and we'll be releasing module details very soon. Please stay in touch with us!"

I hope the two projects make a new video synth renaissance a viable prospect 

Jones Modular Video Synth Coming Soon

The Jones Video Synth will be in Euro format and should
come out sometime soon holding page here.  Dave Jones is 
a long time video synth expert and he worked at the 
Experimental Television Center 

LZX Visionary modular video synthesizer has 
been mentioned on VJ forums could this be the same project
or a rival ? info here and here