[olewhalehunter]

was going to say this equipment is still used quite a bit and there are many working survivors left

[davesieg]

There were only 8 Scanimates produced. I have the first R&D machine and the last one produced. I've heard there may be one in storage in Japan, and two in storage in Luxembourg, but mine are the only two I know of that are plugged in and actually function.

[kitotik]

You beat me to it. Much like vinyl, this stuff tends to maintain a pretty core following.

The eurorack modular synth boom is certainly introducing a lot of new people to analogue video synthesis. Exciting times!

[snaky]

> to analogue video synthesis

Video? Eurorack and modular synthesizers of other format and kinds are about audio, right?

[LeoPanthera]

Eurorack analogue video is a thing. If you’re into learning more about modular synths I can highly recommend the docu-movie “I dream of Wires”.

[kitotik]

Yes, an excellent film!

It’s all just voltage, but obviously with video oscillating at much higher rates.

You use most ‘audio’ modules with video modules and vice versa. All the typical logic works like divide, mult, add, etc.

It’s a really fascinating format!

[jhgb]

"There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

[gt_]

Yeah, it is not like vinyl. There are a handful at most in each big US city.

The cost of entry is a ton of time learning from archaic resources, more time finding the devices and the money to accrue them.