PAiA Keyboard

[The Old Crow]

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Louis Otero wrote:

> I got a PAiA Keyboard from a friend.  The only thing it says is 8782.  I
> know it is a controller but what is it to? When was it sold?

  The 8700-series Paia hardware was for their digital front-end (P-4700j
modular, etc).  The 8782 is a scanned matrix-style keyboard.  You need a
DAC to convert the key presses into control voltages, or a computer I/O
port to read the data directly.  I made a little PIC chip to read my old
8782 and send the notes as MIDI events.  A no-frills hack, but it works.

  The rest of the Paia 8700 gear were the 8700 itself: a small 6503
(28-pin 6502 with 4K address space) single-board computer, the 8780, an
*exponential* DAC (remember, Paia modules were V/Hz) and the 8781 quad
sample/hold.  A full-blown setup had 16 CVs/triggers off of four 8781s,
and given enough VCOs, etc you had a decent 8-voice modular.

  All of this stuff was first sold in 1978 and went on up through 1983 or
so.

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