One or 2 thing about the Polysix for all of you to consider if buying
using or anythingelsing it..
1. If it is working, not just making noise, get the battery up off and
away from the lower circiut board. Make ita mod, do it right way or you
will lose your insrument. You don't have to believe me but Heinz Preiss
who has seen it all trashed one of declaring it a postwar Japanese
trick.
He modded the other one
.
2. Check to see if it works stably if you are approaching a strange one.
If it misbehaves forget it and if it has the Spaghetti midi mod forget
it again if it is acting up. It is parts.
best
g wong
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 03:36 PM, JS wrote:
> It's been a while since I've been around them, but I'm pretty sure the
> Korg
> Poly 61 one of the first four MIDI equipped instruments available (Korg
> Poly
> 61, Roland Jupiter 6, Sequential Prophet 600 and Yamaha DX7/DX9 was the
> whole list as I recall it) and they all had some difficulties talking to
> each other as the MIDI implementation was a little bit different for
> each
> manufacturer at the time. The Korg PolySix, however, was the visual
> "partner" of the Mono/Poly, having the same color scheme/cabinet
> styling,
> and did NOT come with MIDI, although an aftermarket retrofit became
> available soon after they came out. The Poly 61 was also (with the
> DX7/DX9)
> one of the first instruments to introduce the "parameter address"
> system of
> programming (up/down increments instead of dedicated knobs/sliders)
> that has
> become the bane of programmers, and with its 2 character LED display
> (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) was a BITCH to program. It was also one of the first
> instruments (with the DX7, Prophet 600, and Jupiter 6) to have a
> velocity-sensitive keyboard.
>
> Those were interesting times...
>
> Jon E Salley
> MiloJohnson@...
> M400 #886
>
>
>>
>> Greg Amov has a very nice Korg Poly61 (pre MIDI) that he's owned for at
>> least 15 years, maybe longer. A very fine synth indeed that he won't
>> part
>> with. He'll be trotting it out a few times on the upcoming Systems
>> Theory
>> CD, and uses it to good effect for most of his lead lines on his solo
>> album "The Dark Within The Dark".
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