Gil,
Funny you should mention this. Just this weekend I
hooked up my old PolySix to find out that the dreaded
battery corrosion has probably occurred. The synth
sounds terrible. After it warms up I can play a few
patches, but then after several minutes everything
goes crazy. I was able to get a decent arp going and a
nice SH-32 pad on top was a great sound. Naturally the
Polysix had a boost from my Yamaha FX900. I doubt I'd
ever use the Poly without effects. But I like it's
darker sound than my newer synths and hope to get it
back to spec.
So I googled for info and found the guy with all the
instructions and pictures on how to clean the keyboard
and replace the battery. I'd never attempt this
myself. Nor would I try adding MIDI myself. Seems way
too complicated. I don't have the time, patience,
skill or knowledge, and would rather pay someone else
to do it right. I'm sure I could manage to extract the
board myself and then mail it off.
I don't know that I need MIDI for it. If I ever get it
working again, I thought I'd mess around with saving
patches to tape, which I never did, as I didn't have
the manual. But I finally tracked down a PDF of the
manual and I'm intrigued by archaic storage methods
like that. Just curious to see it in action.
Good luck and keep us posted.
-Gary
--- gil_we <
gil_we@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm about to build this unit for my P6
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> http://www.angelfire.com/geek/srlabs/p6retro.html
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> Has anyone built it ? any comments ?
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