Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

Hey all,

I've had my Polysix for over 3 years now (and the same exact model back in the 80s). It's been midi-fied and just recently some patches (not all) have been changing randomly, sometimes while I play it! It's like it was being activated by a random patch generator. Often I'd change patches and change back and it would be fine. After warming up it seemed to stop doing it. Yesterday, it seemed fine without doing that at all.

Are these symptoms that the programmer board in the P6 is going up?

My MS2000 was getting wacky too (patches suddenly had fast LFO modulation and no effects), so I thought maybe something was sending bizarre midi messages. I do have the Polysix's filter controllable from an external midi control source and it did seem the filter was the main thing being affected, but I turned the P6 off and on and made sure it was not receiving midi from the patchbay and it was still doing the random patch thing. But after warming up it stopped.

May have to program it manually for a while until I can get it fixed if that is the problem. :-(

TIA for any insight.

- Ells


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