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Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] Poly 800 problems

From: Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ <gordon@...>
Date: 2008-11-25

Tyrone Lumley wrote:
> Good idea, I wouldn't have thought of that. It worked fine on one leg.
>
> Unfortunately, another leg is busted all the way up past the fat part.
>
> Looks like I got me a 75 dollar MIDI controller.
>

There are two things you can try. You could carefully cut back the
epoxy with a dremel until you've got enough leg to solder a new pin to,
or you could see if that pin is even important. There's probably
∗someone∗ out there with a knackered Poly-800 or similar Korg synth that
can give you a chip, or you could even just bypass it and not have any
filter at all for a lovely chiptune-like effect.

If you were really keen you could just build a filter on protoboard and
add that in.

Gordon