Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

This isn't specific to the PolySix, but here are some guitar FX
electronics sites that you might get some ideas from:


http://www.electrosmash.com/
http://www.moosapotamus.net/
http://hammer.ampage.org/
http://www.muzique.com/
http://www.geofex.com/


One very simple thing to try is to reduce one of the supply voltages
(or add a DC offset to the input, which should be very nearly
equivalent) on the voice summing op-amp stage, to give you
(voltage-controllable) asymmetrical clipping, similar to the Moog CP3
module (which is quite a nice, musical effect in small amounts). Then
again, it still probably isn't quite what you're looking for.


Alternatively you could grab a cheap guitar pedal from craiglist :) I
have a box of them that I love trying out on my synths! 

Cheers,
A.


On 2015-12-01 08:10, chipaudette@yahoo.com [PolySix] wrote: 

> Hi
All, 
> 
> After my Polysix be velocity sensitive, I was really grooving
on additional responsivness in the electric piano (EP) and clav sounds
from my Polysix. But those EP and clav sounds weren't quite right...they
were too clean. I needed a little more compression and more grit. So, I
started to look into modifying the Polysix to give me some overdrive or
distortion. 
> 
> My first try was diode-based distortion. If you're
interested, you can check out my write-up and audio demos here: 
> 
>
http://synthhacker.blogspot.com/2015/11/polysix-drive-diode-distortion.html
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> 
> In the end, I decided that I didn't like the diode
distortion. Oh well. I'll have to try something else. I think that my
next attempt will be to add an overdrive capability to one of the
LM13600 OTAs. We'll see if that sounds any better. 
> 
> Does any of you
use an overdrive or distortion for certain sounds with your Polysix? 
>

> Chip 
> 
> 

 

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