![]() ![]() Another promise was made the following year. ![]() But surely it would be possible to use the controller with any other MIDI compatible software. The controller was made especially for Garagecube’s Modul8 VJ software and the buttons and sliders of the Activ8 reflects Modul8’s user interface. The “beer proof” controller was showcased at the Mapping Festival in the spring of 2010 and promised to be released in September that year. This French controller sounded promising when Andreas Apelqvist reported on it over two years ago. It’s hard to tell when the Glitch Grinder is going to be finished but the plan is to have kits and maybe have some assembled units for sale “soon”. They are still working on the new prototype on a bread board level and doing more tests the following weeks. His new partner, only mentioned as Moosehead, has made something that works but the result does not yet look the same as the output of Juergen’s original prototype. But just recently we got in touch again because Juergen finally found someone who could help him write down the schematics and make a better prototype. I signed up for his blog to keep track of the project but was mostly fed with artsy camping pictures and very rarely something about the Glitch Grinder. He told me that it wasn’t that hard but since he hasn’t studied electronics he doesn’t quite know how to explain it. I wrote to Juergen and asked and after a few emails I understood that sure, he wanted to turn this into a product but he couldn’t really explain how he had put it together. I instantly fell in love and got the impression that this was a product that was going to be released soon. The machine trashes the video input and spits out the beautiful glitchy result at the other end. It was a beautiful little machine called The Glitch Grinder by the Vienna based artist Juergen Koppmann. I read about this project for the first time on Create Digital Motion in April of 2011. Sign up on the Sparklive site to get in on the second production run. Toby has just recently released a getting started video that goes through the basics of the final product. If you already own a TV One 1T-C2-750 scaler you can purchase only the mixer unit for £270 but then you’d miss out on the additive mixing mode that you only get if you get the full kit from. The whole Spark D-Fuser kit costs £870 which is just slightly more than a trusty old Edirol V-4. Even Roland came out with a new HD video mixer but non of these projects are as cheap as the D-Fuser, certainly not the Roland. Especially since it’s a project that was born in the VJ community.Ī few similar projects has come up this year like the HD Rabbit from Carrot video, a prototype that is based on the same video processor and the various mixers built for the Black Magic ATEM switcher by Kasper Skaarhoj. There were a lot of bumps on the road that caused massive delays so it’s great to finally see this project come full circle. I communicated so much with Toby Harris, the father of the Spark D-Fuser, that I ended up being a tester of the video processor and mixer software. There’s finally an affordable hardware solution for mixing HD video. I’ve been really keen on this idea ever since I first laid eyes on the project three years ago and it ended up being the most covered hardware project on this blog so far. In the beginning of December the Spark D-Fuser DVI mixer finally showed up. And since one project was finished and released this year and there was some major developments in the other two, I find this a perfect moment to present a progress report. ![]() There has been three projects that caught my interest on first sight and that I’ve been keeping tabs on the last few years.
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