Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

Hello Chip

I think that for a paraphonic effect an external stomp box will be 
always more useful.

But distortion per voice after the VCF or even after the VCA would be 
very interesting. A sound with low cutoff frequency, but a good amount 
of resonance, can sound like hardsync if sent through a fuzz box.

Florian




On 30.11.15 22:40 , 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
>
>
> 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 capabi lity 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
>