Learn Musical Electronics, No Soldering: Free PAiA Ribbon Controller Kit for CDM Readers »

PAiA 2 Transistor “Ribbon” Kit from Create Digital Media on Vimeo.

PAiA, the electronics kit creator beloved by music DIYers, has a fantastic, simple kit that’s likely to appeal to beginners and kit lovers alike. The kit is a “2-Transistor Ribbon Kit,” and it’s the basic circuit for ribbon controllers for music, of the sort found in commercial products like Kurzweil keyboards and invented by Paul Tanner as the “Tanner-in” — the same instrument used in the Beach Boys’ “Good…