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korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Frank O' The Mountain"
<fmmusic@...> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about getting a Korg. What would you get, a Poly 800 or
a
> DW-8000(really a rack one EX-8000? Are they very similar in sound? Is
> the DW-8000 the flagship of the Poly 800, or are they two different
> sounding beasts?
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
They're different models not related to each other. Poly 800 came
before DW-8000. They both sound really good. The Poly 800 is good
because it is a widely programmable DCO-based synth with an analog
filter. The DW-8000 uses samples of simple waveforms to emulate analog
synthesis, and has 16 waveforms to choose from. DW-8000's envelope
modulator is a VCA, and it's filter is a VCF, however. DW-8000 also has
a nice digital chorus/delay which the DW-6000 doesn't have (although it
has a rather old A/D and D/A stage on either side of it which
compromises the sound). DW-8000 also has a MIDI clock-syncable
arpeggiator and nifty sample&hold LFO.