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

Hi Poly fans,

I have almost finished the faster code for the HAWK. The HAWK now lags behind the original Poly-800 by about 15mS for single note events.

As you add notes to play chords, the lag difference becomes less per note. For example, playing all eight notes in single DCO mode the HAWK lags about 55mS.

However, I notice that the original Poly-800 isn't exactly wonderful at playing simultaneous notes itself. The original Poly-800 shows about 20-30mS of variance in note onset. And it gets worse as you play more notes in a chord.

Whereas, the HAWK "fast mode" definitely works well and it can be set to one (1) so that it doesn't impact user functions at all. However, the optimum range is about 10-16 which gives a good 100mS or so of fast mode which then handles chords rather nicely. In which case, the HAWK only shows a variance of about 7-10mS. Which means that the HAWK might lag a bit more but it does play the simultaneous notes out in faster succession and with less jitter.

I will post the new firmware over the next day or two.

Enjoy!

Mike