Atom,
you hit the punch line right at the end. My initial kit is going to
provide MIDI control over everything that is in the Poly 800 right
now. As of today, you've got MIDI CC's for resonance and filter cutoff
and MG speed on the first LFO. All of the rest of the CC's I expect to
have implemented within the next three to six months. Anyone that buys
the kit today gets free software upgrades. So as soon as I implement
new features, everyone with the kit gets those new features.
The second kit will then get us MIDI and patch control over 12/24db
filter, FM mod and Moog Slayer (in some form or another) plus others.
And it won't cost an arm and a leg.
So for now, I'll go back to the primary kit and will tinker with the
second kit for a while but no commitment yet. I really have to get
those MIDI CC's done for ALL parameters.
Cheers,
Mike
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, patrioticduo wrote:
>
> > Don't get me wrong, I am definitely going to TRY to duplicate your
mod's
> > with digital pots. I just don't know how long it's going to take
for me
> > to get to that. What if I fail at it anyway? There has got to be at
> > least some zipper affect that the pots will never have.
> ===================
>
> for me, it depends on how much zipper there would be. for someone who
> wants ∗real∗ analog, even 14-bits isn't enough resolution to make them
> happy, in which case they shouldn't bother with a poly-800. for me, and
> considering that this is a hybrid synth from the 80's, i think 7 bits
> would be reasonable. at self oscillation, yeah, it's gonna step; but
for
> me the 800 is for making techno noises and running them through
effects so
> i don't mind. if i was trying to emulate a guitar or piano it would
be a
> problem, but IMHO that's not what the 800 is for.
>
> don't forget that this synth was born with most parameters having a
> resolution of 5-6 bits and a pair of up/down buttons to adjust them.
with
> that in mind, i'd happily part with $50 to add a second board to
control
> some hardware mods with 7 bit resolution. we can always add a switch to
> select between 7 bit control via digital pots or ∗analog∗ control with
> ~real~ pots. problem solved.
>
> seriously, a little delay can hide a lot of zipper.
>
> another possible solution is to have the option (per patch, ideally) to
> either have the digital pots track the changes in real time, or have
them
> update only when new notes are played. considering the block diagram of
> the poly800 (all voices sharing a common filter) this wouldn't hide the
> zipper as much as it would on other synths, but for some sounds and
> playing styles it would do the trick.
>
> OTOH, it wouldn't be the end of the world if i had to tweak some knobs
> that aren't on my PC-1600x, and just having MIDI control over the
standard
> parameters (not to mention new parameters) breathes new life into
this old
> synth.
>
>
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