Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

> and stable. Powered it up and I still have no sound. CAn anyone tel 
> me if this is a Battery issue. I would think a battery leak problem 
> would not allow you to store but would it cause NO SOUND? Looking
> for some areas to next look at. 

The battery leak on my Polysix was very hard to see, but it damaged 
the memory circuit board and the nearest chip underneath so that I 
had complete sound loss and several memory lights lighting up at the 
same time. The damage screwed up the memory board so that the poor 
thing didn't know what settings to use and went silent instead.

Just in case someone doesn't know this yet: if you have a Polysix 
that has never had the battery replaced, DO IT NOW. The battery is 
more than 20 years old and just waiting to leak corrosively all over 
the memory circuit board. If it hasn't done so yet, you've been lucky 
- but it won't last. I found this out the hard way (luckily I had my 
patches backed up just recently and a soldering wizard of a friend to 
do the repair job properly). 

Now it works perfectly again with a modern metal hydride battery, but 
it was a much bigger soldering & chip-replacing job than just 
replacing the old battery before it leaks. There are excellent 
Polysix battery leak repair instructions on Old Crow's pages (thanks 
a 1000000): http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/korg/polysix/

S.