Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hi all my fellow musical scientists ,

If I can chime in on this for a moment , because I was going to ask this
group for some time a question very much relating to this midi subject . 
I have one of the 1rst Poly 800 's which I reprogrammed with much better
organic patches than the originals ( some of the hairiest bass & early
historic Moog " Tarkus " replica sounds you 'll ever hear ) and I have a
Roland GR09 guitar synth that I did the same with like so many other
synth owners have to do .  

What I wanted to know is when these 2 early synths in their very own
categories are linked together .  It only works in singular notation . 
No chords .  As master units both ways in or out .  Now both of these
units are poly and the units are set to except poly .  Is there something
I don 't Know ?  Is the Poly 800 so primitive that it only does the most
basic midi command ?  Is the 800 the sole problem or does the GR09 share
in this dilemma ?

When the GR09 goes into the 800 there is the infamous note delays and
burps that show up in the 800 . This is know to Roland guitar synths but
thats because it goes thru the GR09 synth 1rst then relaid to the 800
after the GR09 is already activated . The delay at times I can handle
because it can be used in a humanly 2nd musician facsimilly . The
occasional burp is another thing and I know there most likely is no way
of fix 'n these burps . Also I play extremely clean on the guitar synth
because of the nature of the beast . 

Now what with Johannes has stated as being true is there anyway to remedy
these basic aboriginal problems ?



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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:47:49 +0200 Johannes Hausensteiner
<jo.synth@...> writes:
> Well, the answer is simple. To my knowledge all Poly-800 (and the
> EX-800) do not support any single parameter control via MIDI. So it
> is not *possible* to do things like moving a slider on the PC and the
> corresponding sound parameter changes.
> Why? The Poly 800 (MK I) was the FIRST Korg synthesizer that had 
> MIDI.
> I dont think that they even thought about this in those days. They 
> did
> not even include such a basic command as MIDI Volume!
> 
> Johannes


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