Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hmmm indeed. I think of the JP8000 and MS2000 as MIDI syncable groove machines with lots of knobs for real-time tweaking. The DW8000 is more of a players machine, with fast, smooth keys with a nice touch. If you are mostly doing sequencing with a computer your best bet would be a Poly-800 with Mike’s Hawk-800 kit. Lots of LFOs and vast MIDI control. Neither the Poly-800 nor DW-8000 has a lot of knobs to twiddle but you can easily add the Moog Slayer mod to a Poly-800 (or control the same parameters from a computer with the Hawk-800 installed). If you want 5 octaves of keys with velocity and aftertouch you need the DW-8000. If 4 octaves is enough and you only need velocity control over MIDI, the the Poly-800/Hawk-800 is the way to go.  Check out the Hawk features list at http://patrioticduo.tripod.com/hawk800/FeaturesCompleted.html before you do anything else.

Don B.

From: mailto:korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 9:23 AM
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] hmmm.

  

Hmmm...interesting 

I'm not much of a DX7 or , d50 ect. type fan, but I love the polly 8, I just wish it had velocity sensitive keys,

Although maybe I shouldn't have made such a big thing of that as I just found out a few days ago that the Juno 106 doesn't either (After using one frequently...duh) it was like finding out there's no Santa...anyway..

I can replace my Polly 8 for $220

Or get a warrantee backed DW8000 for $225

Which do I choose?

(Just so you know I'm kind of a JP8000, MS2000 kinda guy)

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Vukan Stojanovic vukansto@... [korgpolyex] <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

    
  Hi,
  something new from my old EX-8000 

  https://youtu.be/qwxMHT9DsSM


  enjoy!



  On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:55 AM, backshall1@... [korgpolyex] <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

      
    Completely different animal. It has 16 oscillators, 2 per voice, and it is essentially a wave-table synth. It has 16 single-cycle waves to choose from. One is a sawtooth, one is sine, the others have varying complexity, and with 8 filters instead of one it isn’t going to feel much like a Poly-800. Not to mention the velocity and aftertouch and weighted keys. It’s one of my favorite keyboards for feel, along with the DX7 and D-50 and maybe the M1. The Polysix, Poly-61 and Poly-800 all feel the same. Plastic keys with springs. It has an arpeggiator that can do “as played” so it can almost double as a sequencer for 64 notes or less. Nice digital delay, auto bend and 4 waveforms on the LFO. No, it is not going to feel anything like a Poly-800. I would never part with either of them.

    Don B.

    From: mailto:korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 5:02 PM
    To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com 
    Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] hmmm.

      
    But does the DW8000 give you the same feel as a Poly 8? Or does it feel like a completely different animal?

    On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Michael Hawkins korgpolyex800@yahoo.com [korgpolyex] <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

        
      no, sorry I don't

      /Mike



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      From: "Gordonjcp gordon@... [korgpolyex]" <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com>
      To: "Michael Hawkins korgpolyex800@... [korgpolyex]" <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> 
      Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:29 AM
      Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] hmmm.


        
      On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 03:22:16PM +0000, Michael Hawkins korgpolyex800@... [korgpolyex] wrote:
      > The DW-8000 has a bunch of things that the Poly-800 should have had. But the DW-8000 still has many annoying limitations that the Poly-800 also had. One or two LFO's with only a few ways to modulate.The waveform generation of the DW-8000 - although better than the Poly - still doesn't give you much control over phase. PWM - true independent detuning and true independent modulation of all oscillators - all missing. The MIDI implementation is a lot better than Poly but still quirky enough to make it painful. The arpeggiator is standard fare without anything special. Though I do like the DW-8000, and 300 Euro's is pretty good for an EX-8000.
      > 

      Hmm, that's kind of got me thinking. I don't suppose you've got wave ROM dumps for the DW8000, do you?

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  Vukan Stojanović

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