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

> OK, I love the Poly but you are going to have to explain to me how

the Jupiter-8 is not capable of making which sounds.

Actually, I don't have to do anything, but I will... :p

> What sounds can the Poly make that a Jupiter-8 cannot?

Have you ever played a Jupiter-8 for any length of time?

Seriously, plain and simple the Jupter-8 is pure creamy liquid awesome
drippy oooze, deep, dark and complex.

The Jupiter-6 sounds totally different, the architecture is basically
the same so it sounds similar, but the components are totally
different. It is really, totally, totally, fully, different
sounding...way way zingier and brighter--more modern, kind of
electro-psi sounding by nature and it only has a 24db filter which is
too bad...but I still love it...

The poly-800 when you open up the filter and stack all the square
waves up (and perhaps put it in chord mode if you're feeling really
sassy) is like this rad kind of cheap but still massively huge buzzy
distorted zippy sound that the Jupiter-8 can't even get close too
making...By "close", realize that I'm speaking in the company of a
bunch of old synth fanatics. :)

Though, trust me if somebody held a shotgun to my Jupiters I'd plead
with them to take me out out first, or use the poly-800 as a shield
all the while cursing its cheap plastic construction ;)

> Do you have any recorded audio of these sounds that we could listen to?

I just got my poly-800 a day ago, and I'm working on the mods (so far
so good), but like I said I'll make a bunch of patches and upload
them.... You sort of have to make patches with this thing, instead of
just flying by the seat of your faders---because of the horrible
interface... .

Anyway, I don't often use very complex sounding patches for the music
I make...And I like trying to pull the distinctive pure sound of the
raw oscillators and filters from different synths...

I'll set up an A/B test of the Jupiter-8 sounding its brightest vs.
the Poly800 once I get it back in one piece and you'll be amazed trust me.

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> Mike.
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> From: serotonic_sound <sero-tonic@ ...>
> To: korgpolyex@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:47:25 AM
> Subject: [korgpolyex] Hello poly-800 world, my story, ( and missing

joystick. :( )

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> Hey folks, I'm really glad I found this forum! Nice work everyone.!
>
> EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: I love this synth! But, I'm missing the joystick

and need some info

> on rigging up some resistors to run in tune without it.
>
> (Ok first, I'm not totally illiterate, just really excited by

good/fun hardware synths)

>
> So, I recently was given a tattered old poly-800 mk1 from a

friend...Free is a really good

> price!
>
> I was really skeptical about this unit when I read about it and even

more skeptical when I

> got my hands on it and was loading it into my car because it felt

like a total cheap piece

> of sh∗∗t. Plastic unit with crappy buttons and that stupid

programming reference stencil

> area that should have been filled with a million knobs and

switches...anyway. ..

>
> I got it home, hacked together a power supply to turn it on...and

you know the

> story...nothing, no sound....... ....oh wait if I hold the keys down

I heard some kind of low

> fequency something coming in on a really slow envelope...I

think...So I quickly referenced

> the manual, which amazingly was part of the deal, to put it into

programming mode and

> set up everything to make a simple square wave, unfiltered, sane

adsr settings...and sure

> enough...success. ..major success!!! It actually worked...nice!
>
> Oh dear, then I read about the battery issue in the manual....WHAT?

NO INTERNAL

> BATTERY? You must be kidding me, seriously? come on...so I unplugged

the dc power,

> plugged it back in, sure enough, everything was erased...no really,

come on, really?

> seriously? come on korg...really? YES REALLY.
>
> First order of business 3v lithium mod... (THANKS GUYS!)...works

like a charm... Yes one

> step closer to a "real synth"...
>
> Anyway, this synth, for certain applications, absolutely kills! I

love it to death...the factory

> presets are ridiculously bad...seriously all of them (even patch 15

;) This thing sounds

> best when you open it right up loud and pure...I REALLY, REALLY,

love the oscillators on

> this thing...and the filter sounds really good, but I'm going to do

the 12db mod asap, I

> don't like 24db filters personally for the music I make...I prefer

the more acidy sound of

> 12db...
>
> I have a Jupiter-8 and a Juptiter-6, and I hate to admit it, but

this thing will make killer

> sounds not possible on those two machines...very complimentary.

..Retro Electro

> madness!!!!! ...
>
> Maybe you can tell...I love old keyboards... YYEEEEAAAAAAAHHH

HHHH... <happy dance>

>
> I'll upload some good "housey-technoy- elctroey- acidy-discoey-

psy-ee" patches for

> everyone soon...
>
> Ok, long, long, story short. (Thanks for listening).. .
>
> THE REAL MEAT OF THIS MESSAGE:
>
> I'm missing the joystick unit completely, its not just broken, its

gone, the whole unit... I

> can stare down the square hole and see the connectors hanging there.
>
> 1) I think the pitch of the unit is being thrown off because there's

no resistance on the

> pitch mod joystick, it's sounds about 5 tones off, yeah?
>
> 2) Would somebody be kind enough to tell me what resistors I should

wire up to what

> leads to simulate the joystick being in the center? Please? I'll

buy you a case of beer or

> lunch, or write you a song, or something... I promise.
>
> 3) Does anybody want to sell me a joystick unit? or know where I

can get one?

>
> Peace everybody, happy synthing... :) :) :) :) :) :)
>