Korg DW8000, Mono/Poly, MS-20...

Mark,

I used to own a Poly61 many moons ago.

There is no way to restore factory patches on the front panel of the 
Poly61.  In fact synths did not generally have this kind of feature 
until well into the 90s (even the popular M1 from 1988 didn't store 
factory settings in ROM, you had send them from a PC via sysex).

Speaking of sysex, or MIDI for that matter, it doesn't exist on the 
Poly61, but of of course you new that (unless it's the Poly61M which 
has basic MIDI but no sysex).  But I do believe you were able to 
dump/load from cassette tape.  So that means you will be stuck with 
having to find a cassette tape of the original patch bank, or maybe 
you can find a WAV file of this audio data somewhere on the net.  
Look for Poly61 resource sites via Google, whatever.

Sorry I can't help you with the sequencer sync issue.  As far as I 
know there were no CV connectors on the back, but I could be wrong.  
It was a long time ago.

Glen


--- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com, "sparky2m4" <mcandrews@f...> wrote:
> Hi all! I just purchased an old Poly-61 and have two questions that 
> I can't seem to resolve looking in the manual. Is there a way to 
> restore factory settings? Is there a trick to using a modern 
> suequencer to trigger the Poly-61 (not midi) arpeggiator? If anyone 
> has worked with the 61 and wouldn't mind conversing, please let me 
> know. I should have it in a week or so. Thanks.
> Mark