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

Hello!

My name is Frank Carvalho. Let me introduce myself. (Ken Leonard may
remember my name from the Mellotron list). Last year I tried to join
the old list, but with very little success, and now I suddenly find
this list. So I am happy to finally have found an active forum for
PolySix discussion.

We used to have a PolySix in my band some 14 years ago, although it
wasn't mine, and I wasnt really allowed by the keyboardist to play
around too much with it. Later, when I convinced him to borrow it to
me it had become a victim of the infamous battery leak. We didn't
know back then what was wrong, so we gave it away to a service man as
a spare part item. Then, some years ago I started to get really back
into analog synths again, and looked for another PolySix. I got one
very cheap, that didn't have any symptoms of the leakage, and only
had some tape on the keys that should be removed. I immediately
opened it and switched the battery, that miraculously showed no sign
of the leakage.

Needless to say that I love the distinctive sound of this synth. I
always liked its brass sounds - Emerson style - but these days I like
the filter and modulation stuff even more.

Now, I've been browsing the net for sound-files of original sounds,
and I am surprised to find relatively few such dumps around. This is
a bit of a surprise really as so many P6s were sold originally. Maybe
it would be great to have a site for peoples own original sounds?
Has anyone ever considered making an editor to read and edit sound
dumps. I guess it should be possible if the sound dumps can be
interpreted somehow - or is this idea just too way out?
And one more thing. I think I've seen a mod somewhere that will add a
glide to the synth. Is it an easy operation to perform... or should I
say, has anyone tried it?

Cheers

Frank Carvalho
Denmark