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

I almost bought a poly61, they any good? (i got a poly800 instead...
nice little board. but you gotta play around with it to get anything
that doesnt sound like a nintendo)

--- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com, "gwai82" <gwai82@y...> wrote:
> OK ok,
> 
> So I opened her up to check for an internal battery, but could not 
> find one as described in the 8000...there does look to be a battery 
> maybe though, it looks like blue bumbpy barrel on it's side, BUT I 
> have no clue about electronics at all...but check this out! When I 
> closed her back up and powered her back up, when i pressed a key I 
> heard a tone! I messed around for a while and programmed her for a 
> bit. Got this awesome gnarly distorted bass that rocked the 
> arppegiator, then after a while it started to spazz out. Like the 
> tone would start distorting and changing, which was kind of cool, BUT 
> was way uncontrollable that it's frusterating. It would go away by 
> tapping the top of the synth in various places, but keeps coming 
> back. I opened her up a second time to see if maybe I could find a 
> short or something, but looks good to me. Closed her back up and she 
> is still unstable, at times cool, but then wacks out. It's almost as 
> though the poly-61 is deamon possessed. Any suggestions, or should I 
> just pray this one through, or should I take it to my tech?
> 
> much respect,
> 
> aaron