if you put the battery in the wrong direction, you can cause damages. i
replaced it simply by another Ni/Ca recharchable Cell. but if some of the
controls isnt work, you surelly have a damage on IC31 or IC30 (both are the
same). but maybe they are also good. hard to say. please check if all traces
are okay, if not you have to replace these traces with wires. i did this
some months ago and all is working fine now. the right direction for the
cell is of the minus pole is in direction to the effects board. but if this
polysix had a battery leakage, you surelly lost some connections on the
underlying traces. (nearly all of my traces are damaged)
if IC31 is damage you'll see it if the patch selection wont work (button
press, but the led's are not switching, or some other strange effects
related to the led)
i'm no polysix expert, but these are my experience with my damaged polysix
Sebastian
----- Original Message -----
From: "rat soul" <devourerofbubos@fridaythe13thfilms.com>
To: <PolySix@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: [PolySix] hello I'm new
>
> Hello, I recently got a Korg Polysix. I make Industrial music and a lot of
> my songs have really loud droning bass sounds. Which it is great for. My
> only other keyboard until recently was a yamaha psr220 which is pretty
> weak compared to the polysix.
> I make sounds using cool edit and you can do some really cool stuff if you
> hook the polysix up to it. I've also got a roland alpha juno1 but I like
> the Korg better. I think it's a lot more brutal sounding and I like all
> the controls to play with. The Juno1 sounds a bit synthetic and plasticy
> and the buttons are a bit annoying.
>
> I bought it knowing it had the "classic battery problem" but didn't know
> what that meant.
> It was quite messed up and most of the controls didn't work. I got my
> friend to fix it. It didn't have a battery inside and there was hardly any
> leakage or corrosion. Someone had also cut the wire that connects the
> effects board to the main circuit board.
> It works now but the higher notes sound all discordant and Dalek-ish. They
> sounded fine before it was fixed though.
>
> Also, you can save sounds into it while it is switched on but if you turn
> it off it wipes them.
> Does anyone know what could be causing these things?
> I read how to fix it on Old crows.net and I replaced the nicad with the 3v
> coin cell.
> If the coin cell battery was put in the wrong way (i.e positive in
> negative) could that be the cause of it forgeting all the sounds I've
> made?
> Are any of these symptoms familiar to anyone?
> thanks
> bye
> Rat
>
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