I payed £100 for mine inc original box, manuals + quality flight case, not mega cheap (I've heard of people picking up poly's for £10 from charity shops) but they all seem to go for around the £200 mark on ebay these days.
The A station & xiosynth are cracking little VA's, I do like novations (I've owned those before and still have a KS4), although the flimsy build quality of the xio makes the poly800 feel like a tank heh.
The A station & xiosynth are cracking little VA's, I do like novations (I've owned those before and still have a KS4), although the flimsy build quality of the xio makes the poly800 feel like a tank heh.
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@...> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:10:36AM +0100, Jason Adkins wrote:
> > How cheap is cheap? I payed £210 for my EX-800 with original
> > manual,yeah I know I'm an idiot Doh! (I was desperate for an
> > analogue synth at the time DCO or VCO with midi)
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> I hate to say it, but you could have bought a couple of second-hand A-stations or a new `Xiosynth for that kind of money ;-) Yes, it's not analogue, but it *is* subtractive and it's a lot of synth for the money.
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> I bet it would be easy enough to make EX800 clones, you'd just need to roll up a CPLD with the divider chain in it.
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