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RE: [korgpolyex] Re: Hi

2009-01-22 by LARRY HAWKE

I would definitely check out the Korg R3. I jumped on one when it was released and got a $200 dollar rebate, making the buying price around $400. It blows my

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Re: [korgpolyex] Re: Hi

2009-01-22 by Alex Drinkwater

I have both an EX-800 and an EX-8000, and they definitely sound different. I only reletively recently got hold of the EX-8000, so I ve really only been

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Re: Hi

2009-01-22 by zoinky420

... a ... They re different models not related to each other. Poly 800 came before DW-8000. They both sound really good. The Poly 800 is good because it is

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Hi

2009-01-21 by Frank O' The Mountain

I m thinking about getting a Korg. What would you get, a Poly 800 or a DW-8000(really a rack one EX-8000? Are they very similar in sound? Is the DW-8000 the

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Re: [korgpolyex] yahoo group search

2009-01-21 by Michael Hawkins

Would anyone like to suggest an alternative to Yahoo? I am OK with moving elsewhere if the landlord doesn t even fix the appliances. Mike.

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yahoo group search

2009-01-21 by Atom Smasher

... ================= i ve got one browser that the search is broken, one browser that can t even log into yahoo-groups, and one browser that everything works

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Re: poly 800 mk2

2009-01-19 by Gordon Pearce

... It s randomly broken in various groups. The only solution is to run a script that will hoover up all the posts from a given group, and convert them into

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Re:Joystick constantly sending CC's

2009-01-18 by Russ

one of my poly 800 s, and my DX27 have been doing the continuous part of continuous controller for a while now. I took the poly 800 apart, sprayed it with

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Re: poly 800 mk2

2009-01-18 by zoinky420

... messages ... FWIW, as far as I can tell the search function in yahoogroups messages hasn t been working for a while now...

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Joystick constantly sending CC's

2009-01-17 by Michael Hawkins

Mark, My wife is more correct than me and more often so I ve learned to keep my mouth shut and listen more often before opening my over opinionated mouth. But

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Michael Hawkins

I knew someone would call me out on this. OK, the initialisation operating variables of EG1, EG2 and EG3 look like this EG1_ATTACK_EXTOP: .block 5 ;

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Michael Hawkins

Actually, I am facing a RAM and Flash ROM crunch in general. The original Korg stored parameters very efficiently by squeezing them all into as few bytes as

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by ASSI

Hi Michael, ... [...] I believe you can do significantly better for the velocity stuff than just switching between parameter sets. Start the envelope right

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RE: [korgpolyex] Accent Envelope

2009-01-16 by LARRY HAWKE

Hey, if anyone in the near future gets their hands on the new microKorg XL...please let me know what you think about it. I m patiently saving up for a Korg

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Atom Smasher

... ==================== is the limiting factor here the size of the code? or the size of the RAM? with the HAWK v1.3 how many envelopes could be precomputed

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Michael Hawkins

Yes, at the moment, I believe that proportional control of VCF or resonance will work. ________________________________ From: Alex Drinkwater

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Michael Hawkins

Yes, I just *knew* that you would be both smart enough and sharp enough to work that out. The answer yes, it could be done. At the moment, I have just two

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Atom Smasher

... ============== that d be cool, especially if the level could be part of what s different. it s kind of a 303-ish approach. another way that might work...

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

... Incidentally that s how the 303 accent envelope works - the decay time for the filter is set to minimum when accent is triggered, and the accent pulse is

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Alex Drinkwater

Cool! Switching, rather than proportionally morphing the envelopes was what I had in mind, actually. Good to hear it s possible :) a|x

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Accent envelope

2009-01-16 by Michael Hawkins

Hi Poly fans, I ve done an analysis of the code that sets up the envelopes. The Poly-800 CPU is not fast enough to recalculate the envelope in real time

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent Envelope

2009-01-16 by Alex Drinkwater

... I know that. I m not looking for a completely authentic 303 emulation- I know you d never get that from a Poly/EX-800. But several people on the list have

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Re: [korgpolyex] Accent Envelope

2009-01-15 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

... Sounds like a great way to emulate the TB-303 accent. I won t go into the long and frankly terribly boring explanation of how it works. Suffice it to say

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Accent Envelope

2009-01-15 by Alex Drinkwater

I was just reading a review of the Future Retro XS, and it mentioned it had something called an Accent Envelope . This is apparently a separate envelope that

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Re: [korgpolyex] Datasheet?

2009-01-13 by Michael Hawkins

Marcus, For a brief moment I thought you had found the datasheet for the MSM5232. My hopes have been dashed once again. :-( Mike.

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Datasheet?

2009-01-12 by Marcus Wilson

G day Mike I have been going through some archives, is this the datasheet you were chasing?? Marcus Wilson

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Re: Velocity sensitive

2009-01-12 by zoinky420

... wires ... just ... Well the source of power will exist regardless of how it gets to the Poly800. You could acheive the same physical versatility of a

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Re: [korgpolyex] Re: Velocity sensitive

2009-01-12 by Alexandre Souza

... One more plug, one more adapter, more sources of problems. Do it whatever you like, I did this way and the guy keeps using it with no troubles until today

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Re: Velocity sensitive

2009-01-12 by zoinky420

... it ... You can ... yeah, that means you have to build your own cable because those wires don t exist in regular MIDI cables. So you ve got a 9vdc adaptor

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Re: Velocity sensitive

2009-01-11 by zoinky420

... that ... stage with ... without any ... Li-Pol ... I d use rechargable double-A s in D sheaths. ... I d modify ... Brazil. Interesting but potentially

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Re: Velocity sensitive

2009-01-11 by zoinky420

... 8085 ... Architecture ... fastest ... yeah but unless it s CMOS (that s what the C in 80C85 means), it s going to be a power-hog in comparison. All 80C85

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Re: [korgpolyex] Velocity sensitive

2009-01-11 by David Mochen

hi there, The suggested items were just as many as i could imagine. of course the adbssr thingie is not that relevant or useful... would have been great to

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Re: [korgpolyex] Velocity sensitive

2009-01-10 by Michael Hawkins

Well, at the moment, I still don t completely understand the EG s math. But I think what you re saying would be true. Then the problem becomes how to fit it

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Re: [korgpolyex] Velocity sensitive

2009-01-10 by Alex Drinkwater

... Would it be worth implementing a switchable ADSR-only envelope system, if that would save cycles, and therefore speed up response-time? a|x

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Re: [korgpolyex] Velocity sensitive

2009-01-10 by Alexandre Souza

... Mike, if I were using a Poly around the stage, surely I d use a Li-Pol battery or a gel cell. No way I d use D size cells on that. And, if I have to have a

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Re: [korgpolyex] Velocity sensitive

2009-01-10 by Alexandre Souza

... http://www.scribd.com/doc/6997402/Intel-8085-Microprocessor-Architecture Here it says about a Tundra second-sourced 8085 at 8MHz, the fastest avaiable.

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Re: [korgpolyex] Velocity sensitive

2009-01-10 by Michael Hawkins

the problem with the slow CPU is that the onset of notes tends to slow down as you add more features. A good example is the four LFO s where once there was

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