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Greetings!

2014-01-27 by <peloton79@...>

Hello everyone.

I have been doing research on modding the heck out of my poly800.

My intention is to add the Hawk800/Atomahawk mods and use the added midi capability to access more parameters via physical control. I am considering the Brain v2 from Livid.

My first thought is to replace the up/down buttons with a dial, something like this http://synpro.heimat.eu/datadial.htm. add buttons to select any parameters that are simply off/on to leave room for knobs. Mike suggested building out the right panel for the extra room needed.

I have done a half decent search through the archives. If anyone has any advice, whether through posts I may have missed, pictures, or experience in doing something similar, let me know. I will try and document as much as possible for everyone. Thank you!

Re: [korgpolyex] Greetings!

2014-01-28 by Michael Hawkins

Hi there, what I was trying to get at in my email to you was that it is pretty much impossible to put knobs, switches or sliders into the right hand panel of the Poly. So I was trying to get across that you would need to build above the panel and probably just run wires through the panel to get to the inside.

Mike

On Monday, January 27, 2014 3:28 PM, "peloton79@..." <peloton79@...> wrote:

Hello everyone.

I have been doing research on modding the heck out of my poly800.

My intention is to add the Hawk800/Atomahawk mods and use the added midi capability to access more parameters via physical control. I am considering the Brain v2 from Livid.

My first thought is to replace the up/down buttons with a dial, something like this http://synpro.heimat.eu/datadial.htm. add buttons to select any parameters that are simply off/on to leave room for knobs. Mike suggested building out the right panel for the extra room needed.

I have done a half decent search through the archives. If anyone has any advice, whether through posts I may have missed, pictures, or experience in doing something similar, let me know. I will try and document as much as possible for everyone. Thank you!

RE: Greetings!

2014-01-28 by <bperkins211@...>

I've thought to dissect the chorus board out and relocate a small preamp elsewhere in Mk1 units to make room for a board with pots 'n switches for a clean look. I wouldn't remove a Mk2's delay board.. too messy and not HAWK install friendly since the Mk2 kit hooks up to the main and delay boards. I use Highly Liquid's MIDI CPU to do custom controllers.. build 14 pots with two banks to shift back 'n forth.. so 28 pots total. Additionallly, you can also have 10 switches in each bank too... so add in 20 switches across two banks... 48 pots 'n switches total. Another product by HL can be used to control LED's.. 24 LED'S I think for now, and possible matrix'd to expand to ~144 if the firmware is ever updated. It responds to MIDI msgs to turn on/off LED'S. -Blaine

RE: Greetings!

2014-01-29 by <peloton79@...>

Thanks for the Highly Liquid tip. Going to check them out over coffee tomorrow.

Mike, my thinking was to be really annoying and use carbon fiber fabric to literally raise the right panel up to the same height at the rest of the keyboard. I have not taken a look under the hood yet, I will get the old girl cleaned up this weekend and try and measure some stuff out.