Seem to have found myself at the sticky centre of some kind of reverse-big-bang for video controllers. I wake up covered in cables, each footstep to breakfast triggers all kinds of devices, and there’s some kind of gravitational force that keeps sucking even gadgets into the orbit. And so, finding myself in the heart-lab of artificialeyes.tv, figured this way a unique opportunity to test and compare some of this gear side by side. I’ll be trying to get a small review up of each of these over the next month, “or so”.

1 – Canon XL1 video camera

2 – Canon XL-1 wide angle lens

3 – Synesthete custom stompbox w/ Doepfer Pocket Electronic guts

4 – Superaon 6” LCD preview monitor

5 – Camera – Fuji FinePix S2 Pro w/ Nikkor 14mm Wide Angle lens

6 – Camera – Nikon D70S w/ Nikkor 12-24 mm Wide Angle lens

7 – GPS Unit – Garmin GPSmap 60CSx

8 – Edirol V-4 with a Vestax CF-PCV optical cross fader mod

9 – Korg KAOSS PAD entrancer

10 – NYKO Air Flow EX joystick

11 – Korg KAOSS PAD

11.5 – Alesis Photon X25 Midi controller

12 – JLCooper CS-32 MIDI controller

13 – Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS

14 – Evolution UC-33 midi controller

15 – M-Audio Trigger Finger midi controller

16 – Edirol V4 video mixer

17 – 60Gb 5th gen iPod (Video)

18 – M-Audio MicroTrack recorder

19 – iPhone

20 – uDMX – USB to DMX cable

21 – MidiMan MidiSport 2×2

22-23 – M-Audio Mid-Air transmitter and receiver

24 – Wii Remote controller

25 – Korg microKONTROL

26 – Codanova VMX VJ midi controller

27 – Vixid VJX16-4 video mixer

28 – Canopus ADVC-110 Video A to D convertor

29 – VMS VMU-5 with NEC LT-35 Projector attached, controlled by DMX