Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Ha, are you getting cheeky with me mate? I may be misinterpreting. 

Yea, I'm pretty certain it was my mother, not my girlfriend.  Greek king of Thebes, Oedipus, I am not.   

The gear on the floor was drown in black,  sooty, very hot water for over 2 hours...it had no hope of functioning ever again, and besides the prolonged heat melted part of the DX11.  
Trust me, I know dead when I see it.  I do still have one other item that survived even though it melted a bit.. a Casio SK-1 …still works too.

It's pretty obvious which keys were broken; they were sticking up at Picasso-esque odd angles.

And besides, this all happened a long time ago, I just happen to still have my poly800 and recently have been feeling nostalgic enough to try and fix it.

"...And this is where I met the leprechaun... He told me to burn things."



--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Jason Adkins <jason_ralf808@...> wrote:
>
> Hysterical mother,Hysterical girlfriend take your pick..
> Yeah I'd def want to see a big photo of a firemans boot on your Poly  
> 800 then we could tell which bit might be broken.
> The moral of this story is:-  don't burn your house down.
> 
> The stuff that got wet,should actually function once dryed out  
> especially that DX11 which only got slightly wet,ok yiou might have to  
> do some cleaning up ,contacts erc but should be ok I'd guess most of  
> your stuff is DC ? If so they might work if dryed out.
> 
> 
> On 20 Jun 2013, at 15:37, daveyray913 wrote:
> 
> > Luckily the Poly was in a 1/2 exposed basement studio. I don't think  
> > the smoke hit it too hard. It was tossed about 8' out a near ground  
> > level window, so it was more of a hard slide than a fall I'm  
> > guessing. (I didn't see, I was busy on the street trying to calm my  
> > hysterical mother) Then...it was kicked/stomped on by fireman I  
> > guess to get it out of the way(BTW: all we Americans are ham-fisted,  
> > that goes w/o saying :) ) It did get a little wet. Anything I had on  
> > the floor /leaning on a wall i.e.: a DX11, a drum machine, a couple  
> > amps, a few effects pedals, etc. were in a foot+ of water and  
> > trashed. I did my best to clean up the few items that survived the  
> > fire the next day.
> >
> > Thanks for all the assistance. Nothing left now then to decide on  
> > which mod path to take once I have it fully operational. After  
> > everyone's assistance I guess I'm not bothering with the tape load  
> > function much longer, I'll make one more effort with the suggestions  
> > given, then move on. Besides, I'm still battling getting the keys  
> > fixed, and contacts cleaned etc. It will live again by golly!
> >
> > I'll photo document my progress for posterity and keep anyone who's  
> > interested posted.
> >
> > Thanks for all the assistance!
> >
> > --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins  
> > <korgpolyex800@> wrote:
> > >
> > > There's a mod that you can do that puts an EX800 ROM "on top" of  
> > the original Poly ROM. And you use a switch to flip from one or the  
> > other ROM's. This allows you to keep all of your Poly-800 joystick  
> > goodness etc while also getting the sysex ability when you need it.  
> > You power off, flip the ROM select switch, power on, do your sysex.  
> > Then power off, flip the ROM select switch, power on, do your  
> > keyboard, joystick thing. Not a bad idea at all, for its time.
> > >
> > > The biggest problem with fires is the awful damage that happens if  
> > electronic stuff is exposed to thick acrid smoke. Did your Poly get  
> > affected by the smoke or was it the fall from a great height that  
> > messed it up? If it's smoke damage then I would say it's a miracle  
> > the dang thing still works at all. And fixing smoke gunge covered  
> > PCB's and parts is a professional job unless you like dipping your  
> > hands in solvents and other carcinogenic stuff. Soap and water and a  
> > long drying time might be worth the trouble.
> > >
> > > The tape switch problem you have is NOT the reason you can't get a  
> > tape dump to load properly. As long as you can get the thing into  
> > Tape mode (which you can) and it stays that way for the duration of  
> > your dump, then the switch is good enough. Get some de-oxit and most  
> > likely you'll find your tape switch will be fine after some de-oxit  
> > treatment.
> > >
> > > The Poly-800 schematics (found in the download section of this  
> > group) are good enough for the EX-800. Especially with respect to  
> > the tape circuit section, they're identical.
> > >
> > > Yes, the HAWK would fix your tape problem because the HAWK has no  
> > tape functions at all. They are all replaced with sysex and MIDI CC  
> > implementation. I do agree that you ought to try to stabilize your  
> > patient before you try to transplant a HAWK into it.
> > >
> > > Your Poly is functioning which tells me it's not "knackered".  
> > Banged up a bit sure, who wouldn't be after a multistory throw by a  
> > ham fisted American firemen!
> > >
> > > So I would say, give your patient some more TLC. Don't sweat the  
> > tape problem too much. And if you can make her reliable then maybe a  
> > HAWK brain transplant might be worthwhile.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: daveyray913 <sinisterthewicked@>
> > > To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:30 PM
> > > Subject: [korgpolyex] Re: New Member: (constant Load ERR.)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Â
> > > Ya, she's in rough shape, but I'm not quite ready to give up.  
> > After I cleaned it up this week and started fixing the broken  
> > keys... it doenst look TOO bad. The couple patches I manually  
> > programed are loud and clear and sound good...
> > >
> > > What I really want is to MOD it, make it useful in my band as a  
> > gimmicky piece of nostalgia, but I'm nervous installing Hawk into a  
> > 'knackered' 'board as you put it. (I love your vernacular btw).
> > >
> > > But I guess HAWK800 would fix the problem too...with it's much  
> > improved Midi Sysex? I could forget about the tape interface/lack of  
> > Mk1 sysex altogether.
> > >
> > > Silly question: Where do I aquire an EX-800 ROM? & Wouldnt I lose  
> > Joystick control?
> > >
> > > Decisions, decisions....
> > >
> > > --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:08:25PM -0000, daveyray913 wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm also installing a dedicated memory battery on board, SO I  
> > can at least manually load patches and not worry about losing them  
> > when the C batteries fail.
> > > >
> > > > Didn't you say the keyboard was knackered? Why not just bung an  
> > EX800 ROM in and load them over MIDI?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Gordonjcp MM0YEQ
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