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From: ericksen@unc.UUCP (Jim Ericksen)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: PAiA Kits ...
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 22:59:41 EDT
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> 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