Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hi Lee,

your Poly must look very unique and expensive with red painting and silver
keys. I'm looking forward to the pics. -

Your modification plans are interesting. It doesn't sound too unrealistic to
let it play like a masterkeyboard and filter the Audio-In (it will be mono
only).

Do you have an idea how to connect your audio in to the filter-IC? Is there
a need of a preamplification or level adjustment before filtering?

Olaf


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Mulvogue" <lmulvogue@...>
To: <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:08 AM
Subject: [korgpolyex] more mods...


> G'day all
>
> I, like many, very recently joined after re-acquiring a poly800 - my
original
> one in about '97 was the hapless victim of a power supply short-circuit,
> frying the poor little bugger beyond repair...
> Of course, this was my first synth, so it wasn't untill after said
incident
> that I found out just how cool it was, and how much I missed it...
>
> Well, my recent acquisition set me back all of Aus$105 - yes, that's
around
> US$55!
>
> Within a few weeks, it now features
> * A memory backup battery (I was very suprised when I opened it, thinking
the
> "loss of memory" problem was a dead battery, only to find there was no
> battery - seems it's one of the earlier versions before they thought to
put
> in the backup, but it did at least have the solder pads for it...)
> * Filter cutoff and resonance knobs (a warning to those who haven't done
this
> yet - get a solder-sucker or something like that, the trimpots are
EXTREMELY
> hard to get off, 'cause you basically need to unsolder three terminals at
the
> same time!)
> * SILVER buttons (the ones that were previously "white")
> * A CHORME joystick knob (original knob was missing, apparently knocked
off
> by a flying beer glass at a particularly roudy wedding reception?!)
> and, best of all
> * A BRIGHT RED paint job!!  Can you say "Nord Lead"?!?   ; )
>
> Any thoughts on my next big idea;  putting in auxillary inputs to the
filter?
>
> My theory is two-fold:
> 1.  Just use the knobs, enabling use of the poly as an external resonant
> analogue filter module
> 2.  The complicated way:
>     2.1:  Connect another synth/sampler's MIDI out to the poly's MIDI in
>     2.2:  Connect the synth/sampler's audio out to the poly's filter aux
> input.
>     2.3:  Set up a patch on the poly with DCO levels set to 0, and set the
> filter envelope as desired
>     2.4:  Playing the synth/sampler SHOULD(?) then feed it's sound through
a
> triggered poly filter envelope, allowing you to do my favourite, the
> overlapped playing style with single trigger, which gives you a long
envelope
> sweep over your synth riff, etc...   And you can also add to it with the
knob
> tweaking...
> Get the idea?  Of course, you could also set the poly's DCOs to actually
> produce sound, thus layering the poly with the other source, all using the
> same envelopes...
>
> Anyone see any faults in my "logic"?  Any thoughts?
>
> hehe, sorry about the long post...
> Pics of my poly should be going on my site once I get the film developed
and
> get access to a scanner...
>
> cya
> LMVogue
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~lmulvogue
>
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