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Subject: R: [DW8000] Tuing poly61 voices

From: "F.Manduca" <resistenzaaoltranza@...>
Date: 2009-09-18

Dear friend,
I have a trusty DW8000 on wich I dared to put my unexperienced hands upon, in order to try and " customize" it a little, using the famous " D∗∗∗∗ss" system... All began when I heard some little noises on some waveforms, probably digital low resolution ones, but I thougt it could be a need of trimmers setting... So I completely upset my machine, but at least I learned how good and close to analog it was engineered. So, since Your synth is so similar to mine with regarding to the single voice " strip channel" ,  is another good idea to purchase the service manual and follow the suggestions to retune and set correctly resonance, volume trimmers etc, since it seemed to me they heavily influence each other, with so many combinations You can't achieve a good result without it...There should be reported all the values You have to restore with a screwdriver and a tester, and so on.. If You, or a former owner, didn't put his hands on these trimmers, then it could really be the option the other kind member suggested.
Hope it could help You,
Regards,
Francesco Manduca.

--- Gio 17/9/09, crustypaul <crustypaul@...> ha scritto:

Da: crustypaul <crustypaul@...>
Oggetto: [DW8000] Tuing poly61 voices
A: DW8000@yahoogroups.com
Data: Giovedì 17 settembre 2009, 19:53

 

I don't suppose anyone here knows how to retune the individual voices on a Poly61 do they?

Each of the 6 voices on my poly61 are slightly out of tune with each other which makes playing anything useful impossible as every note is tuned differently to the previous one. There are trimmers on the board for each voice but they are only for VCA, EG, FC (cutoff) and Resonance.

I can't believe there wouldn't be some method of retuning the voices to each other, unless of course its just so old that components have started to fail at different rates.