Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

On 28/10/12 17:04, bimmerfan222 wrote:

>
> Nice chip, but it'll be about $50 USD to buy an old Apple IIGS to
> scavenge the Ensoniq chip out of.. or cheaper if you're lucky. But
> nice thing is that IIGS's are for sale all the time on theBay.

It's a bit of a shame to break up a running machine, to bodge the sound 
chip into a crap 80s synth.

If you want to play around with a DOC chip, why not spend roughly twice 
as much and buy an Ensoniq Mirage?  You've got a DOC, a 6809 CPU that 
will run any arbitrary code that you care to stick on a boot floppy, 16K 
of OS RAM, 128K of sample RAM *and* eight proper Curtis filters to play 
with.  It's a well-documented platform with at least a partial 
disassembly of the ROM and OS available.

Oh, and if you want to roll your own, it can run Forth:

http://gordonjcp.github.com/miragetools/

-- 
Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ