Rutt Etra Style Effect Using a MSG Processor

Today’s post continues our examination of Rutt Etra style processing effects. As we mentioned yesterday, the Rutt Etra video synthesizer was an influential early analog video synthesizer built in the 70s. The Rutt Etra style is based on modulating video scan lines, so you can think of it as a kind of displacement mapping effect.…

Stacked MSG Procedural Shape Animation

In yesterday’s post we used 2 temporal generators to build a procedural shape animation from a MSG preset. The preset was based on the 1C Abstract5 processor. Today we use 3 different stacked instances of this processor in a single MSG preset with 3 temporal generators to build a more complex time varying shape animation.

Simple MSG Shapes

All of these presets generate simple shapes or patterns. They are all based on index mapping a single channel black and white generated shape image with a color gradient to generate a colorized output shape. The images shown above are just a few of the different kinds of shapes or patterns you can generate with…