r/videosynthesis

Just picked these up for $1000 Canadian. Older guy had them laying around since he sold his retail business back in 2014. He told me the V-4EX had never been used and that the CG-8 was used 3 times for local grad ceremonies he donated. I think the V-4EX at $750 was pretty much market value but the CG-8 at $250 seemed really underpriced, especially considering it is in mint condition. That said I am not finding much online about it. Doesn’t really mater I didn’t buy them to sell them anyway.

I have been tinkering/learning touch designer for the past couple years along with stream diffusion. My hope is to use these like tactile, hands-on instruments to feed projectors, CRT walls and stream diffusion through an older Alienware R10 rtx 3090 build. My buddy is an amazing DJ so I am wanting him to send me a stereo feed of his set so I can video jam or what ever it’s called while he mixes.

Any pointers or where to start learning would be super appreciated.

I probably have over 3000 hours into video feedback loops. This is going back 15+ years, starting with just a camera pointing at a screen and going all the way through the favourite tools, including Roland V4, multiple projection, mapping approaches, and a lot of live performance.

I’ve studied the papers by Crutchfield and Valuska (1984) and more.

So, while I will always love and prefer having analog in the loop; I thought it would be fun to build as close to a bare metal c++ loop simulator as I could manage and the results turned out way better than I expected.

I will share some videos soon, but here are a few stills and a link to github repo with versions for both macOS and Windows. Feel free to use the prepackaged releases or compile your own.

It’s very easy to work with via AI, it has all the background context needed.

Please feel free to request shaders and layers either here or via github.

Cheers you crazy video wizards

https://github.com/splashkes/crutchfield-machine/releases/tag/v0.1.0

https://github.com/splashkes/crutchfield-machine/releases/tag/v0.1.2-macos

Ideas, requests, critique appreciated.