Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Please accept my most sincere and heartfelt apologies for miss-stating
your epithet.  I had no intention to imply that you are anything less
than the full hardcase, rackmount version.  Mea-Culpa.

I am basing my statements on the Poly-800 Service manual posted in
this forum in the 'Poly-800II Service Docs' folder of the files section.

On page 27 in part four of the "Check and Adjustment procedure';

4.  Master oscillator check and adjustment:

Check the above section. (I'd clip and paste it, but its an image PDF)

  
I don't think its a typo because the manual states that the C3 (start
key) should read -1 OCT C on a KORG AT-12 tuner.

  It says that the upper pitch bend should read -1 OCT G (if it was
supposed to be a full octave up it would read "OCT C" (no -1, no G)).

The lower pitch bend setting should show -2 OCT C

I don't have an AT-12 but was able to calibrate to these settings
using a KORG CA-30 Chromatic tuner.

I find i like the full octave dive bomb down, and fifth up is
musically useful.

Signed,  FlunkyPunky







--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@...>
wrote:
>
> Excuse me funkeymonkey but the name is KorgPolyEx800. Don't leave the
> Ex out. I mean, I wouldn't call you funkmonkey. ;-)
> 
> From my work with adding portamento into the Poly 800 my experience is
> that the range of the bend is a full one octave. So it seems very
> strange that the service manual would say a full octave down and up a
> fifth because I just don't think the Poly could ever do that.
> 
> Perhaps it's a typo or maybe the wording is ambiguous. What does it
> say precisely?
> 
> Mike.
> 
> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "funkymonkeypeter"
> <funkymonkey3.14@> wrote:
> >
> > I asume that Mr Korgpoly800 wants to get his controller setting as
> > close to factory as possible.  Up a fifth and 35 cents and down an
> > octave and 35 cents is what a properly calibrated Poly800 joystick
> > should do with the pitch bend slider at 10.
> > 
> > Those are musically useful settings.  
> > 
> > It might be time to 'pop the hood' and spin a pot on yours.
> > 
> > --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "satnom2000" <satnomb@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > > From Center C it goes up to G + 35 cents  (Up a fifth)
> > > 
> > > That's right.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > From center C it goes down an octave.
> > > 
> > > That's not right for my poly. It only goes down a fifth (maybe
plus a
> > > few cents more)
> > > 
> > > It sound the same up and down on my synth.
> > >
> >
>