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

Greetings, all. I have been slowly building a keyboardless modular, and noticed that the Mrs keeps wanting to play chords so she can emulate her corny new wave/synth pop favorites. So I decided to look out and buy a cheap-ish analog polysynth for her sometime. Criteria were real VCOs (unlike my Juno106 and SQ80) and analog envelopes (unlike my sequential Max). So after a couple of weeks I scored an inexpensive Polysix - and a Korg DVP-1 - from a guy out west.

The P6 arrived yesterday. The boards look great but the wood is crumbling apart in my hands. I was planning on getting a synthwood kit for it anyway. The top of the chassis looks fine, but there is rust on the bottom rear and inside. It is too humid here now, but when the weather dries I am going to brush all of the rust off, repaint the back in black, and clearcoat inside. The keyboard assembly works but is corroded, it is going to get cleaned also.

So far as play goes, voices go missing. I don't know tonal stuff, but I start pressing keys and it goes 1xx456. Also the saw sounds normal, but the PW and PWM sound weird, like they are always being modulated. I am only going to put so much effort into diagnosing problems now while the thing is so crusty.

I will probably do a few mods to make programming a bit more interesting. Maybe loopable envelopes, LFO range, detune. And maybe a voice mod... like either duplicating the VCOs for two per voice, or else add some kind of waveform multipliers after the single VCOs.

If I am having this much fun with it even broken, it must be a cool synth! I will read up on past posts and study the library materials in the meanwhile.

L8tRz