Chris Strellis wrote:
>
> You could get a good monosynth at the time but this was about the
> only poly option.
Yup, for this money - correct. The only cheap Poly-Solution of this time
was something self-made, but they were mostly even not able to store
presets. In my opinion are (from the technical and possibilities side
seen) the Polysix or the Poly-61 nearest neighbour to the Poly-800. Both
are also not that good (as mostly everyone believes) but had a
completely different characteristic sound. The Polysix sounds imo more
analogue (fatter).
My personal favourite is the Akai AX-73, even before the Roland
JX8-P/Polysix; it can produce damn good basslines/strings/leads and has
a relative noise-free chorus, even if it has less modulation
possibilities compared to the JX8-P.
Stef