Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!unc!ericksen From: ericksen@unc.UUCP (Jim Ericksen) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: PAiA Kits ... Message-ID: <134@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 22:59:41 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.134 Posted: Tue Oct 1 22:59:41 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 02:30:43 EDT References: <125@ulose.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: somewhere in Chapel Hill, NC Lines: 22 > I was just wondering if anyone on the net has any experience with the PAiA > electronic kits. They advertise such kits as a Hyperflange Digital Delay, > Parametric EQ, Limiter, Vocoder, etc., as well as a unit to be used for > MIDI instrument sync with recorders and VCRs. > > Any comments? I haven't looked at anything PAiA has put out since the world went digital, but the few kits i've seen were mostly good for "educational value". I bought and built a couple of small kits from them: a VCF, which was rather difficult to integrate with my Moog setup, since PAiA uses volts-to-hertz rather than volt-per-octave conversion (because it's cheaper, and also vastly inferior); and a drum-sound generator board, which was a lot of fun to play with (interfaced to a homebrew 8085-based single-board computer), but the sound generator board had a signal-to-noise ratio of around 1. So based on my experiences with their kits, i wouldn't expect much ... but for the price, they give you something to play with (and see how you could have designed something twice as good :-) ). -- Jim Ericksen UNC Chapel Hill