Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Frank O' The Mountain" 
<fmmusic@...> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about getting a Korg. What would you get, a Poly 800 or 
a 
> DW-8000(really a rack one EX-8000? Are they very similar in sound? Is 
> the DW-8000 the flagship of the Poly 800, or are they two different 
> sounding beasts?
> Thanks,
> Frank
>

They're different models not related to each other.  Poly 800 came 
before DW-8000.  They both sound really good.  The Poly 800 is good 
because it is a widely programmable DCO-based synth with an analog 
filter.  The DW-8000 uses samples of simple waveforms to emulate analog 
synthesis, and has 16 waveforms to choose from. DW-8000's envelope 
modulator is a VCA, and it's filter is a VCF, however. DW-8000 also has 
a nice digital chorus/delay which the DW-6000 doesn't have (although it 
has a rather old A/D and D/A stage on either side of it which 
compromises the sound).  DW-8000 also has a MIDI clock-syncable 
arpeggiator and nifty sample&hold LFO.