At the risk of offending the newbie since they may be a member here I say poppycock to the unnoticeable delay. Although I play my 2 Strats through Roland and Digitech pitch to midi gear and can anticipate the delay I don't have a problem with the Hawk upgrades to the Poly. I can also compare it to the stock EX-800 I have. I don't find myself compensating like I do with the guitars either. I mainly play progressive rock and although I don't blast riffs like Jan Hammer or Jordan Rudess I still can cover most solos on the keys.
The original Poly-800 cost what, $800.00 US. There were many synths from the 80's that had major bugs. There were noticeably slow ones too. The Yamaha TX81Z $550.00 sent corrupted sysex dumps. The Roland D-20 $1900.00 would totally lock up until the battery was removed if it received a bad sysex dump. The Ensoniq VFX-SD $2700 would crash and corrupt the sequencer OS until it was reloaded. And the list goes on. All of these synths were factory produced.
I'll take the Hawk-800's extended midi control, looping envelopes, Atomahawk digitally controlled mods, velocity response, and sequencer on the fly options any day.
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
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> Hi Poly fans,
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> I have been measuring the lag in the HAWK-800 compared to the original Poly-800 and I have found that there is about 40-50mS of lag introduced by all of the extra work the CPU is doing with the new features.
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> One of my newest customers is quiet flustered that this lag is present.
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> Since there are about 50 HAWK customers out there, what do you all think of that extra lag? If you discovered it, what did you do to work around it?
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> Does it make your Poly-800 unplayable as my new customer suggests?
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> I know I could probably wrench some better response out of the software but I just don't think I will get much better performance.
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> I am little worried that I may get a bad reputation for having produced a kit that slows down Poly that much.
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> Help!
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> Mike.
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