Korg Poly 800

[Jeff Hamilton]

If anyone on this list can give this guy any pointers, please e-mail him at
LMVogue at earthling.net - he'd be very happy to hear from you. (This message
was posted to the Ensoniq Mirage users mailing list - reposted here with
permission from the author.)

>My poor Korg Poly 800 has been pronounced dead.  The basic story is, about
>1.5 years ago, I plugged it in and it didn't work.  It sat around useless
>for a while, I had nothing to play, so I got the Mirage (that's the tie in).
>Anyway, 'bout six months(!) ago I finally got the schematics, and gave it
>to a technician.  Got it back two days ago(!), he can't be bothered trying
>to fix it any more - the CPU was dead, ordered and replaced that, worked,
>went to the next chip, nothing coming out, replaced that, still nothing
>coming out...
>
>So it's cost me $50, and it's still dead!  Less dead, maybe, but still dead!
>So I'm trying to figure out how I can use it?  As far as I can tell
>(haven't tested yet), there's a strong possibility the VCAs/VCF, waveform
>synthesisers, joystick control, chorus, and possibly Tone Generator are all
>working fine - just nothing controlling them!?
>Anyone got any thoughts on possibly how I could modify it so that it's
>fully analog contolled?? (ie, I think the digital control bits are screwed
>somewhere, but the actual analog synth bits probably aren't)
>I'm desperate!
>Oh, and if I could get the MIDI to work it would be good!
>
>Poor little guy never had a chance to show his full potential...


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