<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">If I recall PAiA had video synthesis and what looked like a junked VIC20 turned into a time code-locked video editing controller with memory for a full EDL. <div>The Proteus, to me, was their crown jewel, not the fatman. Although I had the former and not the latter. </div><div>My first actual PAiA project was built from parts at Radio Shack from a schematic in a book. The Surf circuit, which also just happened to be almost the same circuit as the Wind Chime; I built both from the same parts and enjoyed them immensely. </div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Benjamin Tremblay</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 4, 2026, at 9:57 PM, Benjamin Tremblay <btremblay@me.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">So sorry.<div>He was always helpful and supportive of my hobbies and projects since my art school days into the pandemic when I struggled to relearn analog electronics. His video library shows what it was really like to to use some of the more obscure PAiA products. </div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Benjamin Tremblay</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 4, 2026, at 9:31 PM, Thomas Hudson via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><p class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My first modular I built from a Paia kit, a 4700/j. I think it had three VCOs, two VCFs and two VCAs and EGs. This was my introduction to modular. It started my journey into modular. It also had a 6503 processor built into the keyboard. </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A Scientific American Magazine by Martin Gardener wrote how music statistically was pink noise, or 1/f. Someone created software, Pink Freud tha would do cannons, and John Simonton wrote something called Pink tunes. It was so good, Larry Fast used it on one of his albums.</span></p><p class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It was my introduction to generative music.</span></p><p class="first:mt-0 last:mb-0"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">When John passed, Scott kept Paia alive. 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