Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Thanks, I'll keep a lookout for info on how to add backup power. Or 
there are other possibilities, like simply keeping program banks on 
tape and loading them onto the 800 as needed. 


--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Tim Bieniosek <tab27@d...> wrote:
> Right, there isn't one now, but there are instructions to add one. 
> Somewhere.  It wasn't obvious, but I did it without much hassle.
> 
> radiotest2002 wrote:
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> > I opened up the Poly 800 and saw no sign of a button cell, unless 
> > it's on the trace side of a circuit board.
> > 
> > 
> > --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Tim Bieniosek <tab27@d...> 
wrote:
> > 
> >>There are instructions to replace the memory backup battery 
(button 
> > 
> > cell 
> > 
> >>-type, requires a bit of soldering) or alternately you can keep 
it 
> > 
> > full 
> > 
> >>of C cells to keep your patches when the power goes out.
> >>
> >>radiotest2002 wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm new here...just some thoughts. I had both the Poly 800 and 
> > 
> > 800 
> > 
> >>>MKII back in the 80s, and I've always been as fascinated with 
> > 
> > this 
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> >>>synth's limitations as with its capabilities. As the Keyboard 
> >>>Magazine review said, corners were cut in its design, but 
> > 
> > creatively 
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> >>>so and I consider it a fine synthesizer. Which is why I have 
just 
> >>>caved into temptation to relive the 800 and have gotten one on 
> > 
> > ebay.
> > 
> >>>Well it's arrived, and the front of the Poly 800 is very nice 
> >>>cosmetically...all lettering still intact. This is a bug plus 
for 
> > 
> > me, 
> > 
> >>>getting one that survived its ride to the present. 
> >>>
> >>>Had a panic when I fired up this 800, its memory had totally 
> > 
> > dumped, 
> > 
> >>>although I was able to do programming from scratch. I would 
swear 
> >>>that my original Poly 800 had memory backup; it's a revelation 
to 
> >>>find that with this one I will have to keep battery juice 
> > 
> > supplied in 
> > 
> >>>order to retain programs. I'm thinking to maybe experiment with 
> > 
> > using 
> > 
> >>>a small 9-volt battery hooked into it to accomplish this, as all 
> > 
> > my 
> > 
> >>>use of the machine is done using wall-power. 
> >>>
> >>>About the Poly-800's single filter architecture...I don't 
> > 
> > consider it 
> > 
> >>>a limitation as I did at first. I've come to accept it as part 
of 
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> > the 
> > 
> >>>reality of Korg's marketing choices at the time. I like it's 
> > 
> > single 
> > 
> >>>VCF and use it with and without resonance. 
> >>>
> >>>I think the Poly 800 would've been awesome if it had more 
> > 
> > waveforms, 
> > 
> >>>but then again I like square waves so why complain. The sawtooth 
> >>>simulation is close enough for me. Long live the POLY 800!
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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