[sdiy] Korg Poly61 a peculiar design!!

Andre Majorel aym-htnys at teaser.fr
Sat Apr 9 12:42:38 CEST 2011


On 2011-04-09 11:14 +0100, Richard Wentk wrote:

> The parameter control is odd, and not something a musician or
> experienced designer would have included. 
> 
> Would it really have been that much harder/more expensive to
> increase the resolution?

The Poly-800/EX-800 too has rather coarse grained control for
most parameters. The values are bit-packed in the sysex and
probably in the NVRAM as well. Guess they were trying to stuff
everything into the smallest/cheapest possible RAM chip.

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/



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