Rhodes Chroma Polaris

Hello,

After looking for quite a while on the net for some Polaris
resources I decided to create this group. With it I hope to fill
some gap for users who want to share their knowledge and interest
about this wonderfull synth.

Hopefully we can gain some resources.

If anyone is interested in helping creating Logic environments or
Cubase mixermaps or other related stuff feel free to hauler.

As to patches. It's possible to send single patches by midi but I
haven't got a clue if it's possible to get them by a sysex dump
request.

Sincerely,

Fuse

Hey there,

Fuse, thanks for setting this up. I'm sure this will benefit all of
us.

Here's a link that has a bit of information about the Polaris:
http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Rhodes/Chroma-Polaris/

I've had my Polaris for a couple of years now, but haven't done too
much with it lately, because of moves and other priorities. Two of the
voices are bad (fortunately, you can turn them off), so I have four
part polyphony. I'm not a great keyboard player, so usually four is
plenty :) . I've had to swap a few ICs in the "voice" section to get
the four to work. The problem with the other two is that the ICs that
are broken are "out of print", so they're difficult to find and
expensive. Oh well.

My membrane keypad has a few problems with it. I tried once or twice
to fix it, with limited success. Therefore, I'm very interested in
trying to find the original patch tape(s), or a wav or mp3 file of the
tape(s). Anyone have the tape(s)? Alternately, I'd like to be able to
send a patch from my computer, via MIDI and Cakewalk or some other
utility.

That'll do for now,
Talk to you later,
5-11under

Hey,
Which chips do you need? The CEM3374's ? They are pretty tough to
find now. I think I saw some sources for them a while back but can't recall
who it was right now. Do a search if you already haven't on google or
something. -Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: hdk2000hdk <harvey_d@...>
To: <chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: [chromapolaris] Re: First mail


> Hey there,
>
> Fuse, thanks for setting this up. I'm sure this will benefit all of
> us.
>
> Here's a link that has a bit of information about the Polaris:
> http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Rhodes/Chroma-Polaris/
>
> I've had my Polaris for a couple of years now, but haven't done too
> much with it lately, because of moves and other priorities. Two of the
> voices are bad (fortunately, you can turn them off), so I have four
> part polyphony. I'm not a great keyboard player, so usually four is
> plenty :) . I've had to swap a few ICs in the "voice" section to get
> the four to work. The problem with the other two is that the ICs that
> are broken are "out of print", so they're difficult to find and
> expensive. Oh well.
>
> My membrane keypad has a few problems with it. I tried once or twice
> to fix it, with limited success. Therefore, I'm very interested in
> trying to find the original patch tape(s), or a wav or mp3 file of the
> tape(s). Anyone have the tape(s)? Alternately, I'd like to be able to
> send a patch from my computer, via MIDI and Cakewalk or some other
> utility.
>
> That'll do for now,
> Talk to you later,
> 5-11under
>
>
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Hiya,

Nice to read your reactions.

I've got the user manual and there are some parts of it on print on the
internet.
Some of the basic commando's in a list to have it near by when you're using
it.
But maybe the manual is scannable and with the help of some OCR it could be
put into
a text document for those who are interested. It's a machinetype manual
and ideal to scan. (not to read though)

Bought my Polaris some weeks ago and it's in pretty good shape so I guess I
should be very lucky. Got my holidays now so I have plenty of time to
explore this
synth much more and hopefully produce some tailor made stuff for it.

Regards,

Wouter Veltmaat
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--- In chromapolaris@y..., "Bob Weigel" <sounddoctorin@m...> wrote:

> Hey,
> Which chips do you need? The CEM3374's ? They are pretty

tough to

> find now. I think I saw some sources for them a while back but

can't recall

> who it was right now. Do a search if you already haven't on google

or

> something. -Bob

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I think that was the one, although I might also need a CEM3372.
Anyway, I'm happy with 4 out of the 6 notes for now.
Thanks,
5-11under