Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Atom,

There's no way that your mod's could be simulated in software when the
processor is an 80C85 running at 2Mhz. It is kept quite busy handling
everything it already does in the Poly.

But there are really good low cost digital potentiometer chips out
there and I intend to put a whole bunch of them onto the new circuit
board. Each time we add a new mod, we populate one more chip onto the
board. Patch a few wires from the pot into the guts of the Poly main
board and we're done.

What I like about your FM mod is that it makes what is a classical
analog synth into a FM/analog hybrid that is digitally controlled.

I can't wait to apply an EG and MG to your FM mod.

Bye for now.

Mike.

 


--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, patrioticduo wrote:
> 
> > But I have to agree with you. Your mod is about the cheapest FM
you can 
> > get without actually buying a product designed with FM in it.
> =================
> 
> it's probably possible to find a DX-100 (or a TX-7, yech!!) for less
than 
> a stock poly/ex-800... but you just can't get anything close to the 
> knob-tweaking analog mayhem that you'd get with the FM-800 and moog
slayer 
> mods.
> 
> i'm a big fan of the FS1R (arguably the best FM synth ever in mass 
> production), but if not for the mods to my EX-800, i wouldn't have an 
> EX-800. what it's good at (and good for), it's better at (and better
for) 
> than the FS1R.
> 
> 
> > Now if I could just get back to the MKIII project, we might be
able to 
> > apply separate EG's to your mod's.
> ==================
> 
> or, to minimize the amount of hardware modification, you could
emulate the 
> FM-800 and moog slayer mods in software ;)
> 
> 
> 
> > And, thinking about the TG's in the Poly. I think we could replace
them 
> > completely with digital samples coming out of ROM's just like the DW 
> > 8000 etc. So we can stop worrying about the MSM5232 and just build
our 
> > own. And I've tried and tried to get my hands on one hundred or so of 
> > the filter chips and have failed. So I am now considering designing a 
> > new filter board too.
> =====================
> 
> at some point, you'll just have to design, build and distribute your
own 
> synth.
> 
> 
> 
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