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Matt Truncheon writes:

1U rack space with desktop controller. Sturdy and well built (metal chassis). Hip glossy red and black design. Great knob layout. Smallish but sturdy pots. Has quite a lot of features making it excellent as a live performance synth. With each patch you can set up and save ribbon, antenna, & arpeggiator settings. Sound: Oh, heavy duty basses! The sub bass is way over the top. The pulse width waves are the best Iâ€™ve ever heard. Itâ€™s got a very in your face sound. I liken it to a cross between a Moog Voyager and an Oberheim Matrix 1000. It CAN have a slight canned sound at times. Yes, pun intended. Itâ€™s modulation routings allow for very complex sounds. This thing is unbeatable for generating bizarre sound effects on the fly. It also has a nice data entry dial which makes for editing patch names and modulating routings quick and easy. I especially enjoy the momentary glide button. You can play a riff and toggle the glide to accent here and there. Very clever! The antenna and ribbon controller? No, itâ€™s not just for pitch, you can assign it to control any number of things! Control itself is not limited at all. For example the pitch bend can go from 1 semitone to 4 octaves!

There are only 4 of these in existence. From what I can piece together, Peavey showcased these at the 1998 NAMM show. The original box mine came in had â€œNAMMâ€� scrawled on it. (It was also to include a PC editor) Apparently there was some sort of production problem: a certain section had to be hand soldered and Peavey decided that it was too labor intensive for them. Unfortunately they pulled the plug. This is by far the most interesting and capable of new analog synthesizers. And it was made by Peavey????

The ONLY Paradox Page: http://reactionoid.hypermart.net/paradox.htm

Comments About the Sounds:
Big Analog Basses. Sci-fi swoops and bleeps. Retro leads.

(Thanks to Matt Truncheon for this info.)

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