Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Greetings all, I have been a high speed lurker for the last couple of
days, absorbing and downloading everything I could have possibly
needed so far to get a near mint POLY-800 up and running after picking
one up on eBay a couple of days ago.  I bought it to fill the
technological gap between my Rhodes 73 stage (through a Roland GP-16)
and a KORG M1.    I was looking at getting some synth cards for the
korg and figured that for about the same price I could get the real thing.

I have the pile of parts for both the Slayer and FM mods and will
fortify with caffeine and start breathing my favorite fume (mmm flux).

As well I picked up a surface mount 3v lithium battery holder for a no
C-cell memory hold.

Speaking of hold...is there some way to get the hold button to behave
as a momentary switch instead of a latch?  I'd gladly change the 'next
program' pedal input for something even mildly resembling a sustain pedal.

Also, is there a tune pot on the board so that when the tune slider is
centered i'm on 440?  I think i have a bit of solid state drift.

The only other thing I was thinking of doing is to swap the midi out
connector for a 7-pin DIN and make a 90deg 7-pin >>to>> 2x 5-pin +
9vDC 40' cable (for power, and midi in/out in one cable), taped to a
2-channel mic line for L-R output in case i want to go all 'keytar'
and get in the face of the lead guitar.


P.S.  Nice work olaf on the slayer diagram, who'da thought you could
mix surrealism with schematics.





--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@...>
wrote:
>
> Over the last six months or more, we've seen many new Poly 800 and EX
> 800 enthusiasts join our group - to you all we say welcome.
> 
> If you have a moment feel free to drop into the polls and add your
> opinions to the various polls that are still open.
> 
> And also feel free to let us know how you came to become a Poly fan
> and what drives you to be still using one in the year 2007.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> The moderator - Mike.
>