From: Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...> Date: 2014-10-10
Yes, I figured some more recent buyers of the HAWK might be disappointed. But I can't start development on the ARM board until I know enough people will be interested.
But here's some even more interesting news.
If enough people are interested, I am going to develop a replacement for the tone generator first. The MSM5232 is the most awful sound source in the history of the world unless you're an arcade game. It is without doubt the biggest reason that the Poly-800 is limited and criticized. It drives me crazy!
So after talking to my friendly ARM expert, I realized that instead of replacing the 80C85 CPU first, it would be much better to design a replacement for the MSM5232.
This would give us at least 8 voices (probably more) with a full variety of waveforms and truly clock and modulation independence from one another. The emulator would work with both the HAWK and anything new that we come up with after that.
Stay tuned!
/Mike
On Friday, October 10, 2014 6:30 AM, "ultragalore@... [korgpolyex]" <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
ofcourse this new ARM thing is amazing and is the way to go if you want to make things happen like software midi-thru and proper portamento, but since I have my HAWK kit just 4 days I 'll have to pass on another $$ upgrade anytime soon.