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

I just got a Poly-800 today for a HANDSHAKE when my bassist, who
works for a local sound gear store called me to tell me to come get
the thing before it went to the dumpster. A customer had purchased a
new keyboard and brought in the old Poly synth to find a power supply
for it and decided to not mess with it and told them to do whatever
they wanted with it. I hope it works, still haven't put any V+ to it
to see if it's alive. If not, I may have some parts for you guys!
After listening to the samples of the FM-800 mod, I was indeed
impressed. I wonder however, if the resolution of the tones would be
improved if one were to use the same value for pots, but using 10-turn
pots instead. They are freaking expensive ($15 to $25 each) plus they
are generally twice as long in the "housing" but wouldn't it be sweet
to be able to smoothly and with 10 times the resolution sweep across
the ranges? I have a few lying around, maybe a couple are the right
values I hope. I am already having visions of 555 timer IC's being
used to assign programable variable sweeps that wouldn't require the
knob-turning. I'm just getting started! I might add. the Arp 2600 was
my first synth!
News at 11, when ever that is...

BTW, Bob Moog (Rest his soul)would be proud of you all!

Robster