Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

I said 88 notes but was a little off there. The existing four octaves
will be extended to 6 (72 notes). The feature will be turned on by
selecting "4" for the octave setting (if you're in double mode then
setting 4 on either octave will set the other DCO to 4 as well). This
will turn off the octave shift (1-low,2-mid,3-high) altogether and
MIDI will respond to a full octave below and above the keyboard.

With regards to glitchy portamento. The bend is tunable using the bend
trim potentiometer. If I chose to implement portamento by sliding the
note a full octave before switching the underlying note frequency up a
full octave (while returning the bend back to zero). Then using the
bend potentiometer it would be possible to reduce the sliding. So the
portamento would never fully reach the next octave up. It would give a
funky stepping portamento. I could also implement the portamento by
sliding from one note to the next and only use the bend a little to
reach the next note. You do that by only making the ADC go up to the
next note OR I could still slide the note using the full ADC range but
then you would have to tune the range back down using the bend
potentiometer so that to get smooth portamento the bend trim would be
set very low indeed. That means that if we switch frequencies one note
at a time but tune the slide down then with bend pot set to maximum
the portamento would overshoot and could far surpass the next note in
the frequency stepping process. That might end up producing some
startling sliding stepping siren like effects.

I am leaning towards changing the function of the three Poly/ Chord/
Hold keys so that Poly becomes a mode button whereby you turn the unit
on and you are in Poly mode, you press it again and you go into poly
hold mode and you press again you go into Portamento mode, press again
you go into Portamento with hold mode. Once more, you go back to Poly
mode. That frees up the hold and chord buttons for other purposes and
it means that we can always add in new modes if we want.

Mike.

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Phoebe" <october71@...> wrote:
>
> > sure, most music teachers would say that a "glitch" is bad, but
how many 
> > musical genres have evolved from one or more glitches? who knows,
maybe 
> > the next "Big Thing(tm)" could be a glitchy portamento from a
poly-800 
> > with a hacked OS...? i'm assuming that portamento could be turned
off, if 
> > the effect isn't desired...
> 
> I agree with this sentiment. And I think a good mono mode with even
a "glitchy" portamento 
> would be very, very cool!
> 
> cya,
> phoebe aka october71
>