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Re: [DW8000] Re: Poly-61

2004-05-07 by Stefan Rinass

Tape dumps are here:

http://analog.no/patch/

Stef

Glen Stegner wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I used to own a Poly61 many moons ago.
>
> There is no way to restore factory patches on the front panel of the
> Poly61.  In fact synths did not generally have this kind of feature
> until well into the 90s (even the popular M1 from 1988 didn't store
> factory settings in ROM, you had send them from a PC via sysex).
>
> Speaking of sysex, or MIDI for that matter, it doesn't exist on the
> Poly61, but of of course you new that (unless it's the Poly61M which
> has basic MIDI but no sysex).  But I do believe you were able to
> dump/load from cassette tape.  So that means you will be stuck with
> having to find a cassette tape of the original patch bank, or maybe
> you can find a WAV file of this audio data somewhere on the net. 
> Look for Poly61 resource sites via Google, whatever.
>
> Sorry I can't help you with the sequencer sync issue.  As far as I
> know there were no CV connectors on the back, but I could be wrong. 
> It was a long time ago.
>
> Glen
>
>
> --- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com, "sparky2m4" <mcandrews@f...> wrote:
> > Hi all! I just purchased an old Poly-61 and have two questions that
> > I can't seem to resolve looking in the manual. Is there a way to
> > restore factory settings? Is there a trick to using a modern
> > suequencer to trigger the Poly-61 (not midi) arpeggiator? If anyone
> > has worked with the 61 and wouldn't mind conversing, please let me
> > know. I should have it in a week or so. Thanks.
> > Mark
>
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