[sdiy] Starting Point?

[David Simpson]

Filmmaker here, but newbie to the synth community.

I'd love to collaborate on this with those that have the contacts. I am
based in New York.

- David


On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 4:51 PM Peter Pearson <electrocontinuo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2nd (10th?) for PAIA here.  I built their theremin in high school and
> never looked back.
>
> It costs money, but I can highly recommend the tech mentoring course
> offered by The Analog Lab.  Jeff (the owner) used to be a keyboard tech for
> Pink Floyd during the glory days and managed their state of the art sound
> system back in the day (as well as working with Vangelis).  He's been doing
> synth repairs since Moogs and ARPs were new off the assembly line.  He also
> helped design the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8.  A few links along those lines:
>
> https://www.theanaloglab.com/training
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrU79WWztg&t=8s
>
>
> https://louderthanwar.com/the-development-of-large-rock-sound-systems-chris-hewitt-book-review/
>
> --
>
> As an aside off topic, I would love to see a video interview with Bernie
> Hutchins (or general documentary with people involved) about the genesis
> and evolution of Electronotes.  Is anybody on the list able to get him on
> the horn and open up about that?  The number of people that were involved
> in designing synthesizers when it was the wild west aren't getting any
> younger and we've already lost some big ones.  Would be good to preserve
> that history!!
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kylee Kennedy <kmkennedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe PAIA is now the longest running modular DIY company.
>> That honor used to be for Blacet but I'm still waiting for Synthcube to
>> re-launch his line.
>> Interesting that they are both known for Frac systems.
>>
>> Kylee
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Artie wrote: "In particular, PAiA has been doing this for, what, 20
>>> years at
>>> least?"
>>>
>>> I bought a PAiA Gnome kit when I was 12 years old.  I'm 56 later this
>>> month.
>>> PAiA had been around for a good long while by that point as well, I
>>> think.
>>>
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