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New poll for korgpolyex

2007-01-02 by korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com

Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the korgpolyex group: What model of Poly do you have? o Korg Poly 800 Mk1 o Korg Poly 800 Mk2 o Korg EX

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Resurrecting your Poly800 mk1

2007-01-02 by Michael Hawkins

Hi Willi, The fact that you can do a tape dump and get the Good message virtually proves that your ROM, RAM, CPU and CPU clock are OK. And because you can

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Re: [korgpolyex] Re: Giving Up

2007-01-02 by Michael Hawkins

Adam and all, As someone else on this forum had recommended using MIDI-OX (http://www.midiox.com/), I went ahead and downloaded it. It s great for the EX800

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Please help resurrect my Poly800 mk1!

2007-01-02 by earth2willi

Hi I m the original owner of my Poly800 mk1. It was my first synth! It s in pretty good physical shape overall, but unfortunately it has seen better days.

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Re: Giving Up

2007-01-02 by adam

Honestly, if someone could write something to simply dump the patches we have now, that would be something. we could exchange banks via the web by simply

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Re: Giving Up

2007-01-02 by adam

I m about to give up too. I ve found one that is an open source project that must have worked at one time. The author of the software had released it as

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Happy New Year and a code update

2007-01-02 by korgpolyex800

Happy New Year to all around the Korg Poly EX 800 world, Well it has been a momentous week or two since I took the opportunity to dive into the System

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Re: Code update (DW8000 CPU)

2006-12-19 by gupidziadek

Hi, the DW8000 I own has HD63B03XP of Hitachi. And altough the beast (8000) seems to be one of the firsts ever made - ROM version 850709 I do not think that

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Re: Code update

2006-12-06 by russ

I actually LIKE that it has only one vcf. It gets almost a monosynth sound that way ... Any questions? Get answers on any topic at Yahoo! Answers. Try it now.

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RE: [korgpolyex] Code update

2006-12-06 by Michael Hawkins

Thanks for that. Marcin Sztucki wrote: Hi Mike, It looks like Mr Bryan Ressler could be of some help on the type of the DW 8000’s CPU.

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RE: [korgpolyex] Code update

2006-12-05 by Michael Hawkins

Hi Jose and Poly fans, Well, let me just first say that I really, really appreciate these sorts of emails because this is really a project that is going to

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RE: [korgpolyex] Code update

2006-12-03 by Jose Curvo

Hi Mike, I m glad you took this route. Even loving my Poly800 as much as I do it was a bit unconfortable seeing someone who could actually understand what

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Code update

2006-11-29 by korgpolyex800

A few weeks ago I decided to just rewrite the code from scratch. I mean, there might be some Korg lurker on this list just waiting to take a law suit out

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Question about FM-800 MOD

2006-11-25 by Steve

I just performed the FM-800 MOD yesterday and while it appears to work fine, (all three knobs change the sound) it appears that the FM knob controls the cutoff

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Re: [korgpolyex] New Poly 800 owner

2006-11-22 by David Mochen

HI! There s a really cool mod that lest you run an external audio signal through the VCF Chorus via the EG3 (Noise). Check the archives, haven t got the exact

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New Poly 800 owner

2006-11-22 by Phill

I just recently acquired a Poly 800 as part of a deal when I sold my Octave Cat. I ve messed with it a bunch, but it just doesn t do the trick for me. On the

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Great progress

2006-11-12 by korgpolyex800

Well, it s been an eventful weekend. I managed to discover the checksum code in the EX800 ROM. And as a result, I was able to bypass it and then add a little

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Trade KORG EX-800.... maybe sell

2006-11-11 by brainztain

I m in zip code 90201. Looking for something similar that I can rack (synth). Also willing to sell if a good offer comes up. Here is a pic:

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Re: Dreaming of the Ultimate Poly 800

2006-11-09 by korgpolyex800

Atom, There s no way that your mod s could be simulated in software when the processor is an 80C85 running at 2Mhz. It is kept quite busy handling everything

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Loading EX800 data problems

2006-11-06 by jhopp815

I am trying to load original sound bank into EX800. I have the Audio Cassette wave file from Files section as well as several Sysex banks from File section.

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Re: Dreaming of the Ultimate Poly 800

2006-11-04 by russ

actually I got my dx27s (s is for STEREO) for a lot less than my poly 800. But just in case anybody thinks the 800 is hard to program patches on, try ANY of

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Dreaming of the Ultimate Poly 800

2006-11-03 by patrioticduo

Hey Atom, I love your mod s but I can t stand your politics. LOL Anyway, I must admit the Zero Osc has capabilities that make it a very professional device.

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zeroscillator vs fm-800

2006-11-01 by Atom Smasher

i just saw on AH... checked it out, scrolled down to the demos... except for the percussion and multi-tracked

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Quiet around here...

2006-10-31 by patrioticduo

Hi Poly fans, I won the auction for an EPROM eraser, so that should hopefully arrive in the mail soon. I also took delivery of a parcel with the new RAM and

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Re: But the MK-II DOES do MIDI sysex

2006-10-27 by patrioticduo

Yes, Soundquest will be able to send note on off, program change etc to the Poly 800 MKI but it will not be able to send patches to or from the MKI. Only the

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Re: But the MK-II DOES do MIDI sysex

2006-10-25 by cristoforcolombo

thank you all for helpin me. I ve found on th net, on the sound quest site, a program called Midi quest that claims to be able to work with poly 800 Mk1 & 2!!!

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But the MK-II DOES do MIDI sysex

2006-10-24 by korgpolyex800

Hi Poly fans, I fear we led our newcomer down the wrong path. Just poking around it looks like the MK-II does do sysex dumps. Go to our files section and

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MK-III update

2006-10-24 by korgpolyex800

Well, I ve made a little more progress and rather than lose track it all, I ve added a page to my MK-III web site that will be the progress blog.

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