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[Byron G. Jacquot]

>Poly800...  A Korg synth, analogue?  If so, wouldn't it be linear?
>If that is true, would not a FatMan be an excellent choice in that
>it, too, is linear?  Pardon my profound ignorance in the gear scene...
>Ermm does the fact that it's a "poly" make it senseless to be driven
>by a monosynth such as the FatMan?

Actually, I think the Poly 800 has DCOs, not VCOs...so there probably isn't
really any control voltage to tap from it.  It's from the era of early MIDI,
where they were trying, however successfully, to run more of the synth in
the microprocessor.  It also cheats a bit for that poly...it can be
programmed for 1osc per voice & 8 note poly, or 2 osc per voice, and 4 note
poly...but it's all followed by only one filter!

(to the original poster: somewhere there are some instructions for adding
filter sweep and Q controls to a poly 800...that might make one place to
start, if you don't mind hacking on your instruments right away)

But it does indeed send MIDI, and has a really groovy step sequencer.  I
don't recall it being velocity sensitive, though.  And it's the Velocity
sensitivity over MIDI that really makes the Fatman sing, to my ear.

But a Poly 800 and Fatman should still make a good beginning package!

Byron Jacquot