This is documentation of a recent idea for a synthesiser.

I would like to construct a synth that can be used in conjunction with an oscilloscope to produce live visuals for bands and music. I am visualising geomentric shapes (achieved with phase shifted pairs of function generators – sine, cosine, etc) that can be excited by audio inputs, which can be microphones placed around the drumkit or even on sends from the mixing console. This can then be recorded and projected onto the stage, shapes that pulse in accordance to the music.

Video synthesis is an emerging field, not at all as saturated as audio synthesis. There are very few makers of video synth equipment, and the existing devices that were constructed in previous decades are slowly beginning to die out. There is room for independant manufacturors to step in and build bespoke bits of kit for interested creatives for whom useable equipment is getting more and more expensive.