On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Rob wrote:
> 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!
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based on that story, i'd be ∗very∗ surprised if it doesn't work fine.
> 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!
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there's nothing wrong with using a multi-turn precision pot, but you'd
give up a lot of the tweaking insanity that's useful for techno. depending
on what kind of music you plan to make with it, it's possible that you'd
be better off with a multi-turn pot. as a matter of design, everything is
a trade-off...
using a 3/4 turn standard pot works best for most people who are using
poly800s for some kind of techno/house/electronica/etc. if your name is
mark snow, and you'll be scoring some x-files soundtracks, then a
multi-turn pot would be probably be better.
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