Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 07:18:06AM -0700, Donal Finn terrible.dee@... [korgpolyex] wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Thanks for letting me join,
> '
> Now I shall ask the same annoying question that probably brings most people
> here...
> 
> What to do when your (My) Polly Mk1 starts  emitting white noise and other
> odd (but kinda cool) sounds no matter what program you type in.
> 
> I was able to redesign things to my taste (1 or 2 patches) but 1. There
> seemed to be some modulation I could never get rid of, like the DCO was
> stuck north on the joystick.
> 
> 2. Why did this happen? I didn't mind some of the F'ed up sounds, but I
> want them to be there because I put them there, I don't want my synth to be
> spontaneously reprograming it's self at will.
> 

If it's an original Poly 800 then it's most likely getting upset because there's a bug in the firmware that makes MIDI messages overwrite the patch memory.

Swapping in an EX800 ROM cures this but you lose the keyboard.

There's got to be a proper fix for this somewhere :-)

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