At the 2025 NAMM Show, Entropy & Sons was showing their Recursion Studio, described as “a standalone video art platform.”
Recursion Studio interfaces with a wide array of standard A/V equipment, and can work as a generative video synthesizer or you can dig deep to create custom visuals.
While it’s a video synthesizer, it supports LFOs, MIDI & CV control for integrating with live performance setups.
Internally, signals flow through a network of processing units, refered to as modules, which eventually terminate in the HDMI output of the synth. The end result is a stream of HD animation that can be interacted with and controlled in a wide variety of ways.
There are over 300 modules available for use on the device, and more are regularly being added, each performing a unique function and having a unique set of controls and inputs.
Here’s an overview from the Show floor, via Sonic State:
Here’s a playlist of the official demo videos:
Here are some examples of Recursion Studio in action:
Features:
- An advanced semi-modular architecture with 300+ modules.
- Ffull fledged patch/preset management and tagging system.
- Three UI modes
- PLAY: For experimentation and exploration.
- PERFORM: For live performance.
- CREATE: For patch creation and editing.
- Sophisticated I/O mapping editor for connecting various input signals to actions.
- Internal LFO’s for animating and controlling various parameters.
- Novel modulation system for adding spatial variance to parameters.
- Interface
- 5 configurable and remappable continuous infinite encoders
- 5 configurable and remappable large drum-style button pads
- 3 auxillary UI control knobs & buttons
- A large LCD touch pannel for control of the onboard UI.
- Power
- USB-C PD Power Adapter (9V 2.2A) (Included)
- Inputs
- Audio
- 1/8″ stereo line-level audio rate input and output jacks for interfacing with waveform analysis & beat detection algorithms.
- CV
- 8 Eurorack-style CV Inputs (0 – 10V), protected agains voltage over and underflow.
- Video via USB – Onboard USB A(2xUSB 2 + 2xUSB 3) ports supporting:
- HDMI via adapter (included)
- Most USB Webcams & video capture devices (USB Video-Class Devices)
- OmniReflex Neural Control
- Interface directly with any neural implants that supports the OmniReflex protocol.
- MIDI
- USB ports can directly host USB MIDI Controllers
- 5-pin DIN ports can take input from any MIDI device, and also output
- USB support for uploading your own images and graphics to the synth
- Audio
- Outputs
- HDMI @ 1080p
- Networking – one button updates
- Ethernet (RJ45)
- USB WiFi (adapter included)
- Contents
- 304 onboard processing modules.
- 5 onboard instruments.
- Over 100 numerical parameters across the various modules.
- Over 1000 hand made patches.
- Dozens of event signals and responses.
- A library of 128 onboard image textures.
Pricing and Availability:
Entropy & Sons’ Recursion Studio is available now for $1,200 USD.
Il software Whorld creato da Chris Korda, è gratuito e connesso ad una tastiera midi con controlli si ottengono grandi risultati.
I am searching for an option to create videos for my music. I was thinking about Critter & Guitari‘s options. Then Imaginando‘s VS came out. This is a serious question: What can this thing do, that VS can‘t do? Imo the videos of VS I saw so far look much more professional. Am I wrong?
VS looks like it’s a good reactive visualiser designed for audio response. It doesn’t have the webcam inputs of the Entropy, so quite different mind sets for source creation.
It looks like they just extended the sale for a few days as well..