Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

AtomSmasher? you there?

Question for all you slayer mod people.

Is it that you are able to control the resonance from a knob on the
keyboard that makes the mod so good? Or is it that you get better
sound effects out of the keyboard?

Reason I ask is that, while I am working on adding RAM and ROM, I am
also considering putting in a bunch of digital potentiometers that
will allow the CPU to control additional parameters and I was thinking
that being able to control the moog slayer under envelope of MG
control would  be great. But perhaps it turns out that the knob
control is what makes it really good. And maybe putting the control
back into the keyboard might detract from the mod. Although I could
probably make the slayer mods react to a newly defined and programmed
MIDI controller or two.

Just wondering.

Mike.

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, korgpolyex800 wrote:

> AtomSmasher? you there?
============

yo...


> Question for all you slayer mod people.
>
> Is it that you are able to control the resonance from a knob on the 
> keyboard that makes the mod so good? Or is it that you get better sound 
> effects out of the keyboard?
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yes ;)


> Reason I ask is that, while I am working on adding RAM and ROM, I am 
> also considering putting in a bunch of digital potentiometers that will 
> allow the CPU to control additional parameters and I was thinking that 
> being able to control the moog slayer under envelope of MG control would 
> be great. But perhaps it turns out that the knob control is what makes 
> it really good. And maybe putting the control back into the keyboard 
> might detract from the mod. Although I could probably make the slayer 
> mods react to a newly defined and programmed MIDI controller or two.
=============

i shouldn't even answer here, because the last several years has shown me 
to be a little bit of a hardware hacking geek, but not even the slightest 
bit of a musician.

that said, i think EGs on the mod would certainly be nice, as long as 
there's still "manual override". controlling those (and other) parameters 
via MIDI would be nice (for those that have hardware to send MIDI 
CCs/sysex) but i'm not sure how hard it would be to gracefully handle the 
zipper effect, especially when working with 7bit control signals and 
limited by RAM, ROM and CPU. the zipper effect tends to be less of an 
issue with EGs than it is with CCs because the [typically] faster speed of 
an EG will mask the zipper effect.


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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Michael Hawkins wrote:

> On the EX800, the pots have those nice big user friendly knobs but do 
> you think those pockey little sliders will be OK for real time use?
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my recollection of the sliders on the keyboard versions is that they're 
crap. it doesn't much matter to me, though, because i've got an EX800 with 
a modified "tune" knob and a PC-1600x for sending MIDI CCs.



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