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Selling my P6

2014-07-04 by smarteeism@yahoo.co.uk

Hi guys, Before I sell my beloved old Polysix to some div on eBay or Gumtree or something like that, I thought I'd post this here. It's had the batt replacement, dead voice chips replaced, cleaned etc serviced by a professional; in other words works perfectly. No MIDI retrofit, as it would have been in 1980. There's a corner of the particle board at the top left of the panel that's missing/chipped but cosmetically it's otherwise in great nick, all original switches etc, mid wheels perfect. I love him but the truth is I'm not using him enough, I have too many keyboards and no space any more. I live near Heathrow airport for anyone in the London or South East England area. It also has an hard case with a big plastic decal bearing the legend "On Tour With Korg". If you know anyone looking or interested please message me. I don't know about price but I'd be looking for around a grand which I understand is the going rate but am willing to listen to offers of course. Of course I realise that majority of people on here would be more looking for a bashed up bargain they can fix! But it can't hurt to ask..... Thanks, Chris

Re: Selling my P6

2014-08-29 by cphorsten@yahoo.ca

Hi, Do you still have your Polysix? Where are you located?
Thanks
Chris

Re: [PolySix] Re: Selling my P6

2014-08-29 by Jack Lane

Hi,

Yes, I still have it. I am located in St. Louis, MO. I just got it back from the shop. It had the dreaded battery leak issue and required extensive re doing of the traces on the board by a reputable local tech. Still is unplayable because the tuning is so far off.... I was able to "successfully" load factory patches from the wav files that are floating around the net but... it still does not sound right because of the tuning issue. I get the feeling the solution is more involved than just calibrating the tuning because it seems like entire banks of sounds sound similar. Really I was thinking that if the machine was totally healthy, after loading in factory sounds, they should sound much more different from one another.... electric piano, strings, bass.... etc. But I am not getting any of these "regular" sounds at all. Any ideas? I might just post all of this to group to see if folks have any ideas...Thanks!

Jack

On Friday, August 29, 2014 8:10 AM, "cphorsten@yahoo.ca [PolySix]" <PolySix@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi, Do you still have your Polysix? Where are you located?
Thanks
Chris

Re: [PolySix] Re: Selling my P6

2014-08-29 by Bob Grieb

If the upper address lines to the SRAM are not all connected,

some of the patches would be repeated. I don't think the code

that reads patches from cassette and writes them into RAM does

any kind of check.

The RAM is right near the part of the board where the battery

damage occurs.

Bob

From: "Jack Lane jacklane@sbcglobal.net [PolySix]" <PolySix@yahoogroups.com>
To: PolySix@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [PolySix] Re: Selling my P6

Hi,

Yes, I still have it. I am located in St. Louis, MO. I just got it back from the shop. It had the dreaded battery leak issue and required extensive re doing of the traces on the board by a reputable local tech. Still is unplayable because the tuning is so far off.... I was able to "successfully" load factory patches from the wav files that are floating around the net but... it still does not sound right because of the tuning issue. I get the feeling the solution is more involved than just calibrating the tuning because it seems like entire banks of sounds sound similar. Really I was thinking that if the machine was totally healthy, after loading in factory sounds, they should sound much more different from one another.... electric piano, strings, bass.... etc. But I am not getting any of these "regular" sounds at all. Any ideas? I might just post all of this to group to see if folks have any ideas...Thanks!

Jack

On Friday, August 29, 2014 8:10 AM, "cphorsten@yahoo.ca [PolySix]" <PolySix@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi, Do you still have your Polysix? Where are you located?
Thanks
Chris