"Motherboard heads deep into the bowels of Moby’s Manhattan apartment-studio, where he unveils his prized assemblage of rarified gadgets, bizarre synthesizers, and outré drum devices." http://paia.com/
via Dave on AH regarding PAiA: "The PAiA Drummer Boy was featured in a build-it-yourself article in Popular Electronics, I believe, who featured multi-part articles on constructing many PAiA products, including their modular synths and effects boxes. PAiA is, and always has been based in the Oklahoma City area (now in the suburb of Edmond) - NEVER in Cleveland! (CLEVELAND! Where the Hell did THAT idea come from?) If mine aging brain remembers correctly, the Drummer Boy was offered in their catalogs as well, back in the ?70's? or '80's. And the orange color is probably because that's what PAiA used on the metal case parts of their 2720 model synths."
and via Alex: "And now, PAiA is located in Austin TX, with only the repair/support depot remaining in Oklahoma."
YouTube via nathanielscott "Recently, Mike Johnston asked me if I could work on his ARP AXXE and cure some of its weird behavior. I was not sure I could fix it but I told him I would take a look because I have never got to fool with an ARP synth. The AXXE is a very cool little synth and I would say that it complements the minimoog well. It has things the minimoog does not like 'sample and hold' and ADSR control over the OSC, not to mention keyboard repeat which is tied tot he main LFO clock. This video shows the first time I got to noodle around with the two synths. I ran the main oudio out from the minimoog into the AXXE audio in which really just goes into the filter just like the minimoog. You can still hear some weirdness with the AXXE but I am close to getting it all tightened up.
The sounds in thi video are all just a minimoog and the ARP AXXE shown. A little delay was added to the recording later to sweeten up the sound.
Again I would like to thank Andrew Cortens for use of the minimoog, and Mike Johnston for letting me make a vidie with his ARP."
YouTube via modularland "Featuring the Zeroscillator from http://www.cyndustries.com performing 100% analog FM synthesis. This is dedicated to my teachers and mentors from the FM world: Andy Moorer, Kevin Karplus, and David "if it doesn't buzz, its junk" Van Brink
Its designed to sound like something from electronic music history class that the professor says is "very important."
