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"If you are reading this, you know all about the Moog, Buchla, Arp, etc. synthesizer craze of the Early 70’s. But these synths were expensive. Some companies decided to make modular synthesizers available at a slightly less astronomical price by offering them in kit form. At the low end was PAiA and at the high end was Aries. Aries was only in business for a few years, but they were considered the best modular kits of their day.
While I was building my PAiA, a more well-heeled friend of mine built this Aries. However, he was a real electronics genius and made some modifications to his keyboard and input stage so that he could run it as a polyphonic synth using a microprocessor. This was a fairly advanced idea at this point in time.
After he played around with it and got bored with it, it went into his parents’ attic where it remained untouched for 30 or so years. It was given to me during a recent attic cleaning.
Here is a list of modules:
1 Keyboard
3 VCOs
1 Dual LFO/Lag inverter
1 S&H Clock/Noise Generator
2 envelope generators
1 balanced modulator
1 dual mixer
2 multimode filters
1 phase/flange
1 stereo (spring) reverb/Output
1 VCA
2 unknown & unlabeled modules - these are probably custom interface modules for the keyboard/microprocessor, but I don't know since they have no labels."
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