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

wild :p  have you seen the 80quid flatpack plastic synth that you snap
together?

given the nature of the poly800 DCOs...there isn't a heap of difference
between saw and pulse, and it doesn't do PWM.
ok, i viewed the YT vid. the square sounds a bit squarer,
and the filter sounds a lot like a dsp filter with whistly resonance.
could that just have a role as a bandlimiter to filter out aliasing?

it would be good to get some more audio demos and samples of wave output.
maybe for some of the other versions too, to see which gives the best
output if it's only going to be used for the wave generator part.

i have a MFB synth lite II which is a fascinating little synth, just for the
size. there's some polemic over whether the oscillators are 'DCO's or
'digital oscillators' - whatever the difference would be there ...? does that
imply that people think it's just playing back a waveshape? there is an
excellent youtube vid somewhere explaining precisely how a DCO works,
and demonstrating the difference between different DCO synths, and how
the DCO is clocked. apparently you can have 'analog' DCO and 'more digital'
DCO, and in fact the juno-60 is quite different from the juno106, for example.
(did we see that here?)

anyway: the MFB does ringmod, osc sync. i read some negative criticism about the
nature of these but i don't find them offensive, and with analog VCF and VCA,
the overall 'trip' is very Moog-like, ranging to Roland sound. the main pain with
it, if there is, is the coarse/fine14bit CC implementation, interpolating 2 midiCCs
for msb/lsb.which the RemoteSL won't deal with, for example. the VCF has
exaggerated resonance imo but sounds better than this dsp filter, as would
the korg filter.