> i juts bought a poly-800 as-is at a thrift store. it was in a toy bin and the
> lady sold it for 3 bucks. got it home, and the video i will link explains it
> all. any suggestions would be gold
I didn't watch it to the very end; however one quick question: Did you load
any sounds into it before trying it out?
The first revision of the Poly-800 used the batteries in the bottom to
buffer the memory contents as well; once those batteries are removed (or
will get too low) the Poly-800 will "forget" any settings; you're basically
ending with a "blank slate" (and not with some kind of "init" sound, to
make things worse).
So please go to the files section, download the factory patches and load
them into the Poly first; then try again.