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

Wholehearted and passionate discussions on "my synth-beats-your-
synth" ;^) aside, I'd like to add my 2 cents. Midi'ing a CZ-101 and a
Poly-800 back in 1990 was a lot of fun! I was able to get real lush
and complex sounds by comping Poly's murky sound with those tinny
brittle FM-like Casio timbres! IN particular I remember being able to
mimick that Lyle Mays signature sound (kinda pan flute with a detuned
attack) in an astoundingly faithful fashion! Guys would come over to
my two humble keyboards and scratch their heads in amazement... I
would combine a square wave patch on the Poly with a white noise
attack with a clean similar sound on the Casio but with detuned
attack on one osc a la Oberheim. Bellisimo!

Dave