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Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] poly 800 II fails

From: Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...>
Date: 2011-08-08

Is this a Poly MK2 that you have had for many years? Or did you recently buy it? Did it have this problem from the moment you bought it?

Have you checked for battery leakage inside? (Especially the C cells).

Did you check the power supply rails? Check them all when you first power up and then again after 2 minutes or more? Do they drift across those two minutes?
 
Do you hear white noise (or pink noise) as the swooshing sound at power up? Or do you hear nothing at all at power up and you have to hit keys and the VCF cutoff sounds like it is increasing for those two minutes? (Slowly widening the sound until you hear the full range of harmonics).

Did your Poly work just fine with the mod's in place? Or, did you do the mod and then the problem occurred? Did you do the modding yourself?

Does the sequencer work? Have you uploaded the factory patches? Are you able to edit sounds?

Does the EG3 work?

Do the EG's for the individual DCO's work?

Please answer all of the questions as best you can.

Mike

From: bruno lhuissier <bruno.lhuissier@...>
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] poly 800 II fails

 

Hi,
Is it a continuous sound starting with sub-bass and then going higher up in pitch?


Hi

There is no sound until i hit a key, and the sound is leveling up slowly during 1 or 2 minutes , as a ramp. this is for the dca

For the DCO, the pitch is going higher in pitch , you re right. As i don t hear anything the first seconds, so i don t hear a sub bass, i begin to hear a mid sound going higher up in pitch slowly

It takes 2 min to stabilize to the good pitch.

I forget to say that neither the pitch bend , neither the mod and vcf don't work ( the pitch bend at the end of the left begins to fall the pitch a little)