I almost bought a poly61, they any good? (i got a poly800 instead...
nice little board. but you gotta play around with it to get anything
that doesnt sound like a nintendo)
--- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com, "gwai82" <gwai82@y...> wrote:
> OK ok,
>
> So I opened her up to check for an internal battery, but could not
> find one as described in the 8000...there does look to be a battery
> maybe though, it looks like blue bumbpy barrel on it's side, BUT I
> have no clue about electronics at all...but check this out! When I
> closed her back up and powered her back up, when i pressed a key I
> heard a tone! I messed around for a while and programmed her for a
> bit. Got this awesome gnarly distorted bass that rocked the
> arppegiator, then after a while it started to spazz out. Like the
> tone would start distorting and changing, which was kind of cool, BUT
> was way uncontrollable that it's frusterating. It would go away by
> tapping the top of the synth in various places, but keeps coming
> back. I opened her up a second time to see if maybe I could find a
> short or something, but looks good to me. Closed her back up and she
> is still unstable, at times cool, but then wacks out. It's almost as
> though the poly-61 is deamon possessed. Any suggestions, or should I
> just pray this one through, or should I take it to my tech?
>
> much respect,
>
> aaron