Hi Mike,
I'm glad you took this route. Even loving my Poly800 as much as I do it was
a bit unconfortable seeing someone who could actually understand what makes
the beast tick to settle for it's twenty years old technology. Many of it's
features were compromises to keep prices down. No syx on the original Poly,
no velocity, no calibration of the joystick (mine sends cc with low values
all the time), only on or off for each waveform, only one filter...
I choose one instead of a Synclavier, Fairlight or PPG, guess why? ;-)
Twenty years after I think you can do it better than it ever was. I would
love a ROM OS on a piggyback card with a socket for the old one and a soft
switch that allowed me to choose wich to enable. So a could have the stock
I'm used to and the small things I wish it to do, like syx.
I'm a dumb when it comes to programming. But you are right on the spot when
you feel free to create ∗from∗ what was a good thing. I don't know what can
be done, midi delays? arppegiators? harmonizers? Most hardware itens weren't
good sellers but what would they cost today?
Just think of sockets. So we don't ruin our belove printed circuits trying
the new season's OS. If it's simple to be done and cheap, maybe we all get
as hooked as guitarrists are to pedals (just this last one). May be not. But
easy and cheap are allways good selling points.
Maybe in the near future you could even get rid of hardware limitations, I
mean there must be chips that can make better DCOs than those on the Poly.
Why not? They were chosen with both eyes on the bottom line. Time has
changed and the makers of those days' best ones must be happy to sell a few
more units before declaring them obsolete. Maybe a open plataform hardware -
need more voices? add a card.
I don't know what can be done. Or how much it would cost. Just wish it could
be done.
Just think that as much as we all loved the poly it doesn't need to be the
stick any synthesizer should be measured with. It was just the best synth we
could buy, and maybe that's what made them a great synth.
You are doing great. There are at least 600 of us crossing our fingers and
waiting for the 800III. Sometimes the only help we can give is spare you
from long useless e-mails.
Thank you,
Jose Curvo
>From: "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@...>
>Reply-To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
>To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [korgpolyex] Code update
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:24:02 -0000
>
>A few weeks ago I decided to just rewrite the code from scratch. I
>mean, there might be some Korg lurker on this list just waiting to
>take a law suit out against me so I figured it better to just rewrite
>the code.
>
>OK, at this point, I've got a ROM ready that allows me to send a SYSEX
>to the EX800 that pokes a byte (or bytes) into any RAM location/s I
>want to.
>
>Very nice!
>
>So far, I've identified several performance parameters that can be
>adjusted through the sysex command that I've inserted into the code.
>Only drawback is that you no longer have the tape functions.
>
>If anyone would be interested in using such a ROM in their EX800's,
>just let me know. Depending on the response I will post my new ROM
>onto ebay at a price around 20 bucks or so.
>
>This is just the beginning!
>
>Mike.
>
>PS: Excuse my previous rant, I was feeling a Clash of
>Civilizsynthesizations!
>
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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