Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Tim Bieniosek wrote:

> The Alpha Juno 1 or 2 runs ~$150, and beats the Poly-800 in all areas 
> except the self-oscillating filter IMO.
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what i've heard... is that a lot of the juno series synths, or at least 
the 106 and the alphas (and probably the MKSs, too) are dying of old age. 
not the kind of simple replace-a-fuse kind of dying, but the kind of dying 
that can't be feasibly brought back to life.

as i understand it, they all use a synth-on-a-chip architecture, with one 
chip per voice. apparently those chips are starting to die en masse.

of course these are proprietary roland-only parts, and they've been 
discontinued and out of stock for years.

i was never that big a fan for the junos, but this is a big disincentive 
for buying one now.


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