Entropy & Sons’ Recursion Studio Video Synthesizer At NAMM 2025
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.
Entropy & Sons’ Recursion Studio is available now for $1,200.