Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list  

Subject: Re: Help! My ebay-bought POLY8ii is friggin fricked!

From: "Philip Linde" <philip.linde@...>
Date: 2005-08-17

I'm sorry, but you got it all wrong. The "oscillators" are simply a
single chip digital 8-channel tone generator (MSM5232RS in the service
manual). It was used in a lot of arcade games, too.

Since everything in the Poly-800 is digitally controlled, why do you
think they didn't call the VCF "DCF" while they were at it?

Best regards,
Philip Linde

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "iheartvinyl@n..."
<iheartvinyl@n...> wrote:
> "actually that is incorrect, up is LFO to VCF and down
> is LFO to VCO, right and left are pitch bend."
> actually, you're wrong too. up is lfo to DCO, not VCO. the
oscillators are analog but digitally controlled, which gives them
their great stability. down is lfo to VCF, and left is pitch down and
obviously right is pitch up.
> just make sure the "Bend" slider is all the way up, or for a perfect
5th, i found that mine has to be set just above "9" or else it goes a
little flat when down and a little sharp when up.