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Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Paia Oz Vintage Poly Synth Rare VGC Working

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PAIA Oz synth from the 70s. It’s a cool, portable, battery powered synth organ with full sized keys, 5 octave selectable, trigger out, built in speaker and apparently used by DEVO. I soldered in a new battery holder as the old one looked flimsy and wasn’t making good contact. The ribbon controller is working but it’s more a gimmick and not a true pitch bender. All keys function and all functions work except I haven’t tested the trigger outs. This unit is pretty clean inside and out but it is a vintage DIY synth that’s rare so I’m selling as is and as described. Awesome piece to display in your collection and totally playable. I would imagine that adding a nine volt power supply would be extremely easy as well as adding an audio line out. This kind of begs to be modified into something more but I never got around to it."

Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Paia 2720 + 4700 (1970's DIY modular synthesizers)


video upload by Tinfoil Cat

"I've been telling myself for too long that I should post more Paia videos. This is an old video shot before I fixed the keyboard on the 2720 (broken sample and hold as you might hear). The main part is 4700, the 2720 helps out with a fourth VCO. The spring reverb is a little noisy.

These were available as kits from Paia starting in the 1970's. The 2720 is closely related to the 2700 that arrived on the market over 50 years ago!"

Interesting side note via sdiy.info:

"Frac rack, FracRak or Frac, from Fractional Rack, is the modular synthesizer format designed by John Simonton of PAiA. It has a mainly USA following largely through the popularity of Blacet modules.

Like the Eurorack format, Frac is considered a 3U format..."

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Paia Custom Analog Synthesizer 1972



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"Here we have a one of a kind custom PAiA built into an old suitcase built By Steve Alcorn the vice president of engineering at Linn, the synth is an expanded 2700. It inludes original 1/4" patch cables, suitcase has a key and there is another key to power the synth on. Comes with every pamphlet for each module used. Steve also signed the outside of the suitcase.

Steve pre-wired it up like an Arp Odyssey It is still completely custom-patchable as well. Modules include:

Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (3)

Voltage-Controlled Amplifier (2)

Voltage-Controlled Bandpass Filter

Voltage Controlled Low Pass Filter

Envelope Generator

Control Oscillator / Noise Choice

Power Supply

Glide Retro Fit

Envelope Follower / Trigger

Sine Converter / Pulse Width Modulator

Balanced Modulator

Envelope Generator

In addition, all the original manuals are included for the above modules, plus a few other of PAIA's products.

The unit is designed to be easily ported to gigs, where in a few seconds the keyboard can be lifted out of the case cover and the case cover detached, giving you a Moog-like setup. It was a fun performance instrument. I remember generating the crashing waves for Riders on the Storm during a gig in 1973!

This unit has not been powered since the late 70s. Prudence would suggest a thorough inspection of all the electrolytic capacitors, for starters. But this would be a dream project for an electronics tinkerer, and gives you a very large collection of very rare PAIA circuits as your starting place."

Monday, January 08, 2024

Vintage 1970s PAiA GNOME MICRO SYNTHESIZER KIT

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Vintage PAiA 6780 Polyphonic Organ/Synthesizer

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

PAIA Mini Organ 3760

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Pics of the inside below.

Thursday, December 07, 2023

Vintage PAiA Gnome Analog Music Synthesizer w/ Docs

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"Besides the Synthesizer equipment, this set includes EXTENSIVE historical documentation:

Original, 2 manual, Kit Assembly Instructions and Warranty sheet documentation, plus directly related period supplemental Catalog and synthesizer programming Patch and Analog Synthesizer theory book- see photos

Includes original 1973 Assembly manuals, Illustrations, Warranty sheet, patch / definitions, and a Patch Template sheet

Includes original 1970's era PAiA Electronics Music Kit Sales Catalog Sheet showing an option to add the Oz music keyboard to the Gnome

Includes added, original, 110+ page, related book: The Source (1st Ed, 2nd Printing 1979) a collection of analog synthesizer programming and patches for the PAiA Gnome, collected from Polyphony magazine

This Gnome Synthesizer is of interest to early Analog Music synthesizer collectors / analog music design historians / technicians / repair technicians, or music kit collectors, or musicians that prefer to adjust sounds continuously with analog knobs, instead of digital controls"

Friday, November 03, 2023

Vintage 1970s PAIA 5700 The DRUM Module

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"Definitely Crudely Constructed on a Budget with 2 x 4 & Plywood Case -open 1 Side.

My Guess is that it was a Functioning Unit at One Time from All the Effort Put Into Making it!

Roughly: 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 9 1/2" "

Sunday, September 03, 2023

PAIA 2700 4700 8700 MODULAR DIY Analog Synthesizer Parts

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Friday, March 24, 2023

PAiA 4700 Vintage Modular Synth

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(3) 4720 VCOs (Oscillators)

(2) 4740 EGs (Envelope Generators)

4730 VCF (filter)

(2) 4710 Balanced Modulators

4711 Mixer

4712 Reverb

(3) 4770 Watt Blocks (one with connecting cable)

4761 Wing (with power cable)

4780 Sequencer

Control Oscillator with Noise (no number)

Monday, January 16, 2023

PAIA 3740 GNOME VINTAGE ANALOG MICRO TOUCH RIBBON SYNTHESIZER

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Pics of the inside below.

"This vintage beauty was put together from a kit by an electrical design engineering professor who held a Ph.D. in computer science at Berkeley. It appears to be a nice soldering job and these older units are getting harder to find. Countless hours of work went into this build. I believe it is in the original shipping box from Southwest Technical Products in San Antonio, Texas. I have installed the 2 required 9 volt batteries, but I could not get the unit to function. It powers on, but no sound comes through the test amplifier. Only a pop when it turns on..."

Thursday, December 22, 2022

A Tiny House Studio


Mind-Blowing Tiny House on Foundation w/Music Studio - built w/TRASH! video upload by Tiny House Expedition

This one was spotted and sent in via Russ of Evaton Technologies. There's a peek of the studio in the begining followed by a segmant starting at 18:24. Cool to see a PAIA FatMan in there. It might be the longest running DIY synth still in production. If you know of another feel free to leave a comment. You can find them at https://paia.com.

Video description:

"Meet Christo, a musician & DIY builder extraordinaire. He built a truly awe-inspiring tiny house on foundation using mostly reclaimed wood and salvaged & recycled materials. Initially, he planned to build on wheels but pivoted when the zoning of his land changed. This allowed him to build wider & taller, so he added an epic recording studio!"

Synthspotting:

Access Virus B
Behringer DeepMind 12
Behringer TD-3
PAIA FatMan
Roland JX-08
Korg Minilogue
Arturia KeyStep 37

Video Chapters:

VINTAGE PAIA 3740 GNOME w/ Original Box

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Monday, December 19, 2022

PAIA Proteus 1 Synthesizer w/ Manuals

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"Video of product at bottom. This is an electronic wizards dream. It lights up and comes on but the presets all sound the same. It functions as in emits a sound but it needs repair. I'm afraid it's going to have to be AS-IS as I don't have the talents to repair this rare beauty. Their might be only a handful of these in existence. This ultra-rare analog monosynth is called the Proteus 1. This is a monophonic analog synth with 16 memory locations! It's based on CEM chips (as used in the Sequential Circuits Pro-One and many other classic vintage synths). Its got two oscillators with oscillator sync, an envelope generator, LFO, lowpass resonant filter, glide and noise-gen. This synth is unique for a vintage monosynth in that it has patch memory which can be programmed by the user and also has a series of lights to show when knob settings match internal patch settings."

video upload by jason essig

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

VINTAGE PAIA 3740 GNOME ANALOG MICRO TOUCH RIBBON SYNTHESIZER w/ Original Box & Docs

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Thursday, November 24, 2022

1970s PAIA 1550 STRINGZ N THINGZ

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Pics of the inside below.

Wednesday, November 09, 2022

PAIA FATMAN BACK FROM THE DEAD


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"The PAIA FATMAN, Download samples of this instrument, much more and Support the museum here :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomp..."

Friday, September 02, 2022

PAiA A Schematic Symbology For Synthesizer Patching Arrangements 1974

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This one is in via Loscha

You can find a PDF download here.

You might recognize it from this previous post.

Update via Yusynth in the comments: "this notation has been extended and usable PNG and SVG files of these are made freely available by PatchAndTweak at http://patchandtweak.com/symbols/"

Friday, August 12, 2022

PAiA "A Schematic Symbology for Patching Synthesizer Arrangements" 1974

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"PAiA 'A Schematic Symbology for Patching Synthesizer Arrangements' 1974

Mint condition PAiA reference manual.

As far as I can tell, no scan or photos exist on the internet of this manual.

22 x 14cm
12 pages.

Those cover reads, in part:
As any field progresses from the simplistic to the complicated the need arises for a system of short-hand notation that allows the individuals involved in the field of interest to easily and quickly document their experiences. Time used in elaborate, detailed drawings of the system under study is time lost to active investigation."

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Paia Theremin Theremax Modified Synth SN 0282

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"This is a Paia theremax theremin that was modified by Kaiser instruments. It features an envelope filter and oscillator along with a phaser and delay section. External sound sources can be patched in as well to use the onboard effects. Obviously patching the theremin in leaves you sonically curious for hours on end. Killer unit that is extremely unique."

See the Kaiser label at the bottom of this post for more.

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