PAiA Fatman Analog Synthesizer Jam/Test

Simple jam session, testing out the PAiA Fatman Analog Synthesizer. The drums are from a Korg drum machine.

The PAiA Fatman is a DIY Analog Synthesizer kit. It arrives in a thousand pieces, and you build it. The included instructions are excellent, and this was a very fun build. I highly recommend PAiA's products.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• electronic
• synthesizer
• fatman
• paia
• analog
• synth
• techno
• electronics
• diy
• midi

[chaz03]

thanks man for the info. any idea what those throw shitches are on the side? do i need them in a specific posisiton

[DigitalExtremist]

@chaz03 They are how you define what MIDI channel the FatMan is listening for on the MIDI input line.

If I remember correctly they should be all down for MIDI channel 1, but the manual has all the info on it to be sure!

[DigitalExtremist]

@chaz03 if you need I may be able to dig up my manual and find out for sure I suppose

[chaz03]

i was given a fatman by a friend of mine and never used it or seen one but ive been trying to understand how this thing works seems simple but im missing something. i have a korg ms2000r, an axiom 49 and i wanted to hook it up through the fat man. my axiom is my keyboard for the ms2k. do i just run a midifrom the out on the ms2k to the midi in on the fatboy then audio out to my speakers. i cant seem to get it to work properly. any help would be greatly appreciated man.

[DigitalExtremist]

If you run the midi out from the MS2K to the fatman, you will probably need to tell it to pass the midi from the keyboard through to the fatman.

I would hook the keyboard up straight to the fatman and test it out that way, then once that is working, go from there with the other stuff.

I just hooked mine up to a Korg Electribe E-MX1(groovebox/sequencer) which is hooked to a Korg MicroKontrol keyboard. Works great, just gotta remember the Fatman is only listening on MIDI CH 1.

[Capta1nHowdy]

were you using a sequencer in this vid?

[DigitalExtremist]

Yea, it was hooked to the midi output of a Korg drum machine.

[nutrinoland]

that kid is awesome...cool video guys..

[anoteoftruth]

I wanna get one of these as a fun spring project. Can only imagine it can help give a good understanding of analog synthesis.

[tekkentool]

wow very nice!, i love the rando who saunters by.