Korg Poly 800 Oscillators

Glen mclilith at ezwv.com
Sat Oct 7 06:03:32 CEST 2000


Hi,

I know that the Korg Poly 800 used digitally controlled oscillators, but
does anyone know what sort of DCO's these really are? Some companies have
used the "DCO" phrase to refer to wavetable digital oscillators (which are
really pure digital - not digitally controlled analog.) Other companies
have actually built analog oscillators and then used a microprocessor to
control them. I would consider the  oscillators in a Gleeman Pentaphonic or
an Arp Chroma Polaris to be of this type. Both of these instruments can
tune themselves.

So does anyone know what style of DCO is in the Korg?

Thanks,
Glen Berry 



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