Sick Korg

[patchell]

    I have no idea if this is what is wrong with your Poly-800, but here is
what happened to mine once.  I wrote a program for my Atari ST (not really a
factor, but an interesting coincedence) for generating random tunes via
midi.  When I tried the program on the Poly 800, it wiped the memory.
Evidently, the micro in the Poly 800 keeps a queue of midi events on the
stack.  My program had a slight bug in it that it sent out a lot more Midi
ON events compared with Midi OFF.  The micro never checked to see if the
stack over flowed and it did so right into parameter memory.  I was not able
to get it to work again until I managed to reload the data off of the tape
that came with the thing.  I hope this is all that is wrong with your poly.
Good Luck.

    -Jim

Halloween Jack wrote:

> Well, I was all excited when I got my Atari ST in the mail, ran to my
> nearest music shop and picked up extra MIDI cords and all... Had
> everything all nice and set up, TR-707 synched to the ST, then out put
> to my Akai AX-80 and thru to my Korg Poly-800. Everything was running
> fine, until a little into it, I found my Korg wasn't playing. I right
> away stopped everything, and tried out the Korg, nothing but noise
> clicks. I thought perhaps the patch got reset. Started playing around
> the settings, but nothing. Played with the MIDI channels and here where
> it gets weird, the display went way past the regular 16 channels, and
> further into hex numbers. I disconnected everything, and took it into my
> workshop, and then plugged it into my guitar amp. Still nothing. So,
> instead of cracking it open and poking around, I thought I'd ask here
> first. Only thing I've thought of so far is opening it up and removing
> the internal battery, then putting it back in. Any other solutions?
> Anyone else have this problem? Thanks!
>
> -HJ

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