PAiA Drum tone board

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

Hello Jack-

I bought two of the Drum boards many years ago.  I built one about ten years
ago and then gave it away when I moved, since the basic functionality seemed
pretty fixed.  About nine months ago I dug the other kit out of the workshop
and built it, since the current system needed more voices.  This time I
brought out all the jacks and plugs to another panel and "de-normalized" all
the connections, making it an inexpensive little modular voice.  The VCO is
a 566 and the VCA an 8038, and the sound is OK.  I don't own any commercial
things like the 808 and so can't comment.  It is fun having a
linear-response VCO in among the exponentials, and having the input
attenuator change from positive to negative like the Serge modules is quite
useful.  I have a picture of the unit back from the photo shop and will put
it up on the web site soon.

Steve C

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Steven Curtin  
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics
ph: (732)949-4404   fax: (732)949-6711
http://www.emf.org/subscribers/curtin/
sdcurtin at lucent.com
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> From: 	Halloween Jack[SMTP:halloweenjack at flashmail.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 31, 1999 6:34 PM
> To: 	'anologue heaven'; synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: 	PAiA Drum tone board
> 
> Any one here gotten one of the Drum Tone Boards from PAiA? If so what
> kind of applications did you use it in? How's the sound? esspecially
> compared to commercial analog drum machines such as the 808? Thanks all
> 
> -HJ
>