Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hello all!

I'm thinking of getting a Poly-800.  I haven't used and synths 
before, but am looking to get the types of sounds similar to The 
Rentals, Ozma, and also some experimental techno stuff.  Think the 
Korg would work for me, or does anyone have any good audio files?

Thanks!

I have a poly 800 mkII.  I don't know those bands but I learned 
synthesis on my MKII.  You may run into some problems with the 800 
and the 800II as far as some sequencers will clear out all your 
sounds and stuff like that.  It's unfortunate but true.  As for the 
sounds, well... I think I like the filter on this synth better than 
the filter on the Roland MKS-70, it's a damned cool sounding filter:  
really dark and all kinds of liquid bubbly res (IMHO).  The poly's 
are cheap and readily available, which makes them a good bet for 
someone who's learning synthesizers.  
    I like the bass sounds on the poly-800 a lot.  Also, you can get 
a lot of those "experimental" kinds of sounds out of one I think...  
OH YEA, and you can do that filter mod so you have cutoff and 
resonance knobs to your filter on a MKI, so that's pretty neato.  
They're also good for bread and butter synth sounds, I've made lots 
of classic pads, leads, organs, even some good synth brass with my 
poly-800mkII.

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "timnantais" <shade6969@h...> 
wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I'm thinking of getting a Poly-800.  I haven't used and synths 
> before, but am looking to get the types of sounds similar to The 
> Rentals, Ozma, and also some experimental techno stuff.  Think the 
> Korg would work for me, or does anyone have any good audio files?
> 
> Thanks!