Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

today I midi sync'ed the poly's sequencer to my 707.  This made me
very happy. 

Anyone have any interesting or novel uses for their poly 800?

In terms of it's sound, not really...I much prefer the EX-8000's sound,
it's like the poly 800 on steroids...BUT the poly lets me do one thing
the ex does not, and that's strapping it on and wearing it like a
gu-synth, then making cheesy poses like I'm a rock star or something. Of
course, I would prefer a moog liberation for this, but considering it
poses absolutely no practical use, I can deal without it for now :).

In all honesty, my poly 800 has been sitting in the closest ever since
about 2 days after I did the battery and moog slayer mods to it, which
was about a week after I bought it. If it at least had velocity
sensitivity, or even just SENT velocity signals, I would still be using
it :(...I guess it might have been worth the 100$ I payed for
it...might....will have to wait and see.
Byron

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To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
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today I midi sync'ed the poly's sequencer to my 707.  This made me very
happy. 

Anyone have any interesting or novel uses for their poly 800?



 
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While I do miss having the velocity stuff, I always seem to come back 
to the Poly 800 for sounds that I just can't get anywhere else.

And I've synced it to all my other keyboards and my drum machines.

But, one of the cooler things I did, a while ago, was trigger it with 
my DrumKat (MIDI drum pads with kick pedal type thing).  What was 
cool is that I was triggering both my drum machine AND the poly 800 
with it, so that each drum sound had a note from the Poly layered on 
top of it.  Sounded pretty cool!!

I've also synced the Poly's clock to my Korg D8 recorder.  Also cool 
because you can program a sequence, record it, then program a 
different sequence, and record it IN SYNC with the first one.

Probably no big deal to most MIDI buffs, but I had fun anyway.

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Byron Deerr IV" <bdeerr@w...> 
wrote:
> In terms of it's sound, not really...I much prefer the EX-8000's 
sound,
> it's like the poly 800 on steroids...BUT the poly lets me do one 
thing
> the ex does not, and that's strapping it on and wearing it like a
> gu-synth, then making cheesy poses like I'm a rock star or 
something. Of
> course, I would prefer a moog liberation for this, but considering 
it
> poses absolutely no practical use, I can deal without it for now :).
> 
> In all honesty, my poly 800 has been sitting in the closest ever 
since
> about 2 days after I did the battery and moog slayer mods to it, 
which
> was about a week after I bought it. If it at least had velocity
> sensitivity, or even just SENT velocity signals, I would still be 
using
> it :(...I guess it might have been worth the 100$ I payed for
> it...might....will have to wait and see.
> Byron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wunderhorn1 [mailto:wunderhorn1@y...] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:04 PM
> To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [korgpolyex] It's not porn but
> 
> 
> today I midi sync'ed the poly's sequencer to my 707.  This made me 
very

> happy. 
> 
> Anyone have any interesting or novel uses for their poly 800?
> 
> 
> 
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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> 
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I´ve sync'ed my poly to an Korg ES-1, full of old drum samples, then 
sampled sequences from the poly, it could do that kind of fast 
arpeggios like trance and stuff, and layering them... And the bass 
got pretty more fat thru ES-1 filters (and can record the movement of 
the filter knobs)... I´ve even done a cover from 
Fischerspooner´s "Emerge" very easy...hehehe, funny... The sad thing 
is that the poly responds only to one midi channel... Is it normal?



--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "wunderhorn1" <wunderhorn1@y...> 
wrote:

> today I midi sync'ed the poly's sequencer to my 707.  This made me
> very happy. 
> 
> Anyone have any interesting or novel uses for their poly 800?

J\ufffdlio C\ufffdsar wrote:

>I\ufffdve sync'ed my poly to an Korg ES-1, full of old drum samples, then 
>sampled sequences from the poly, it could do that kind of fast 
>arpeggios like trance and stuff, and layering them... And the bass 
>got pretty more fat thru ES-1 filters (and can record the movement of 
>the filter knobs)... I\ufffdve even done a cover from 
>Fischerspooner\ufffds "Emerge" very easy...hehehe, funny... The sad thing 
>is that the poly responds only to one midi channel... Is it normal?
>
>  
>
Not very surprising, considering Fischerspooner' ripped that track off 
me, and I had programmed it originally using a Poly 800 II and a Roland 
MT 32....
What goes around goes around :)
Philippe

Wow, hehehe

Do you have any link to your song? I promisse i won´t rip you, hehe

How did it happen? 

I´m from Brazil, Fischerspooner will play here in a festival next 
week...


--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Philippe Laurent <p.laurent@n...> 
wrote:
> Júlio César wrote:
> 
> >I´ve sync'ed my poly to an Korg ES-1, full of old drum samples, 
then 
> >sampled sequences from the poly, it could do that kind of fast 
> >arpeggios like trance and stuff, and layering them... And the bass 
> >got pretty more fat thru ES-1 filters (and can record the movement 
of 
> >the filter knobs)... I´ve even done a cover from 
> >Fischerspooner´s "Emerge" very easy...hehehe, funny... The sad 
thing 
> >is that the poly responds only to one midi channel... Is it normal?
> >
> >  
> >
> Not very surprising, considering Fischerspooner' ripped that track 
off 
> me, and I had programmed it originally using a Poly 800 II and a 
Roland 

> MT 32....
> What goes around goes around :)
> Philippe

J\ufffdlio C\ufffdsar wrote:

>Wow, hehehe
>
>Do you have any link to your song? I promisse i won\ufffdt rip you, hehe
>
>How did it happen? 
>
>I\ufffdm from Brazil, Fischerspooner will play here in a festival next 
>week...
>
>
>  
>
Hi,

That song was on www.mp3.com, which explains a lot....
As their service is currently down, I have no link at the moment, but 
I'll work a temporary solution to that if you like.
As for your question 2 post earlier, if I remember right, the Poly 800 
is in in omni : on mode at power up, but switches to single channel as 
soon as you access the channel choice menu.

Philippe

You can put your song in the files section of the group...

About the poly, i mean that the poly800II can´t "layer" voices, like 
to play a sequence with one voice, while making chords with another 
voice...I don´t know the exact term, and my english is poor...



--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Philippe Laurent <p.laurent@n...> 
wrote:
> Júlio César wrote:
> 
> >Wow, hehehe
> >
> >Do you have any link to your song? I promisse i won´t rip you, hehe
> >
> >How did it happen? 
> >
> >I´m from Brazil, Fischerspooner will play here in a festival next 
> >week...
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi,
> 
> That song was on www.mp3.com, which explains a lot....
> As their service is currently down, I have no link at the moment, 
but 
> I'll work a temporary solution to that if you like.
> As for your question 2 post earlier, if I remember right, the Poly 
800 
> is in in omni : on mode at power up, but switches to single channel 
as 

> soon as you access the channel choice menu.
> 
> Philippe