I just got a Poly-800 today for a HANDSHAKE when my bassist, who works for a local sound gear store called me to tell me to come get the thing before it went to the dumpster. A customer had purchased a new keyboard and brought in the old Poly synth to find a power supply for it and decided to not mess with it and told them to do whatever they wanted with it. I hope it works, still haven't put any V+ to it to see if it's alive. If not, I may have some parts for you guys! After listening to the samples of the FM-800 mod, I was indeed impressed. I wonder however, if the resolution of the tones would be improved if one were to use the same value for pots, but using 10-turn pots instead. They are freaking expensive ($15 to $25 each) plus they are generally twice as long in the "housing" but wouldn't it be sweet to be able to smoothly and with 10 times the resolution sweep across the ranges? I have a few lying around, maybe a couple are the right values I hope. I am already having visions of 555 timer IC's being used to assign programable variable sweeps that wouldn't require the knob-turning. I'm just getting started! I might add. the Arp 2600 was my first synth! News at 11, when ever that is... BTW, Bob Moog (Rest his soul)would be proud of you all! Robster
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What about Multi-turn pots?
2006-04-20 by Rob
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