Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

Hi Margus, did you end up putting this program onto the web?  Sounds 
great!

Regards,
Ben.


> Hi,
> 
> There is... now!
> 
> At first, as an introduction I'm new to this group, my name is 
> Margus, I just bought my Polysix a month ago and have fixed the 
> battery and a couple of traces by now (thanks, Crow!). This is 
> actually my second P6 as I was stupid enough to sell the first one 
> some 15 years ago to get a DX7 - but hey! everyobody did the same! 
> 
> To the point. As I found (and still find) it painful to manage the 
> patches on a midiless P6 I created a basic editor/librarian for 
this. 
> The thing eats a .wav file, disassembles it into a P6 memory dump, 
> lets you change individual parameters and finally assembles them 
into 
> a .wav again which you can feed back to a P6. Right now it is in 
> a 'proof-of-concept' stage with no bells nor whistles but even as 
> that it serves two purposes:
> 
> First, educational. The precision of the patch charts is weak, to 
be 
> polite. Operating the knobs is not suited for fine-tuning a 
> parameter, and sometimes a slight change in a parameter value 
affects 
> the sound a lot. It is not that easy to recreate exactly the same 
> sound on another machine. Internally a parameter value can vary 
from 
> 0 to 255, so scaling it down to 0..10 on the front panel creates a 
> problem. The editor lets you see the real values, tweak and fine-
tune 
> them and experiment with minor changes.
> 
> Second, practical. The program enables you to copy/paste a patch 
> inside a bank and between banks. You can even move a patch around 
> between different dumps (.wavs) as well, or create a library of 
dumps 
> (eg. in Excel). One dump (32 patches) is actually very small - just 
> 512 bytes. So you can create the different soundsets you need 
without 
> recreating them by hand on the panel.
> 
> If this sounds interesting let me know here (or drop me an email) 
and 
> I'll make it available for download somehow.
> 
> Regards (and sorry for the long posting),
> Margus