Rather than load the factory presets I'm setting out to re-kindle my relationship with the Poly-800 by creating custom presets. It's worth mentioning that when I got the unit all the presets were reset to INIT. Below is my first experiment doing an improv with the Poly-800 Moog Slayer as the only sound source for the Octatrack. These days, most things that make sound in my studio become either Absynth or Octatrack food.
KORG POLY 800 MANUAL.PDF MOD
Poly-800 Moog Slayer Filter Mod Meets Elektron Octatrack So this mod is really a game changer in that it allows you fine continuous control over these parameter with no zippering effect – woot! Now you can get to take yourself to the ragged edge of self-oscillation and can get all Hendrix with the Poly-800!
KORG POLY 800 MANUAL.PDF GENERATOR
Before the mod you countrolled filter via the up/down buttons having only the ability to step through a discrete 0-99 range for filter, and a super lame 0-15 range for resonance :^( Pulling the joystick down doesn't sweep the filter but instead turns up the intensity of the filter LFO (called a MG or modulation generator on the parameter index panel). In a nutshell, this mod adds two physical knobs to the Poly-800 just above the joystick to control filter cuttoff and resonance. Well I'm happy to report that my friend Darwin Grosse ( Art + Music + Technology Podcast) just sold me a Poly-800 with the added bonus of having the Moog Slayer filter modification. Even though I sold it, the Poly-800 was one of my favorite synths of all time and I hoped to own one again someday. I sold it years later to a friend to help fund another bigger ticket synth – probably an ESQ-1. This is actually a pretty unique feature and allows you to get cool strumming type sounds out of the instrument. So any time the filter is re-triggered, it's re triggered for all voices. BTW – The Poly-800 MKII added Sysex capability along with digital delay effects.Īnother quirk that I like is that the filter is shared by all voices. wav format (see links at bottom of post). Note, you can find factory presets on the internet in. This meant that back in the day, you had to save presets to audio cassette :^o. It is also a quirky synth in that even though it has MIDI, it didn't have Sysex.
KORG POLY 800 MANUAL.PDF MANUAL
Being able to easily visualize these parameters without having to crack open the manual quickly taught me about subtractive signal flow and architecture. It was a fantastic first synth to own because even though you have to program it with two buttons and a 2-digit LED, all the parameters are laid out graphically on the top of the synth. A joystick to control pitch bend and modulation and the filter.Strap pegs so you could wear it like a keytar.49 Full-sized keys (non-velocity sensing).
Two stable digital oscillators (DCO) but with a 24dB/oct low-pas analog filter.MIDI (which had only just been introduced at the 1993 NAMM show).It was an incredible value at the time with these features: It was the first programmable polyphonic synth for under a thousand bucks (I bought mine for $795 new). My very first synth was the Poly-800 which I bought the year it was introduced in 1984.
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