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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-17 by funkymonkeypeter

Please accept my most sincere and heartfelt apologies for miss-stating your epithet. I had no intention to imply that you are anything less than the full

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by narfman96

Hi Russ, Your Poly-800 is doing the same thing my II did when I got it. The switches on the back panel control this. I think the sequencer or sysex enable

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by Russ

Hi all, speaking of joysticks, I have a little problem. One of my 800 s has a joystick that continuosly spits out pitchbend modulation etc data. so much so

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by korgpolyex800

Great! That sounds exactly the same as what my Poly is doing although there is a slight detune at the high maximum but I know what that is being caused by.

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by korgpolyex800

Excuse me funkeymonkey but the name is KorgPolyEx800. Don t leave the Ex out. I mean, I wouldn t call you funkmonkey. ;-) From my work with adding portamento

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by funkymonkeypeter

I asume that Mr Korgpoly800 wants to get his controller setting as close to factory as possible. Up a fifth and 35 cents and down an octave and 35 cents is

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by satnom2000

... That s right. ... That s not right for my poly. It only goes down a fifth (maybe plus a few cents more) It sound the same up and down on my synth.

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Re: Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by funkymonkeypeter

Page 27 of the service manual has the calibration settings for the pitch bend. From Center C it goes up to G + 35 cents (Up a fifth) From center C it goes

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Poly fans - need a little help

2008-01-16 by korgpolyex800

Hi Poly fans, I need a little help to confirm that the joystick code I ve written is working correctly. Since I don t have a working original Poly 800, I need

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Re: NJM2069 Datasheet or Pinouts?

2008-01-14 by matijnboshoven

So to get external audio in, you put the signal into pin 2 or 3 and ground at pin 1? And to change from 24dB to 12dB you put a switch on pin 5 and 6?

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Re: Not getting -5V?

2008-01-14 by Jon

Hi Mike, I can t see any damage to the coil. And as Marcus states in the email below; it s probably Q1 and Q3 that s the source of the problem. But as you say,

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Re: Not getting -5V?

2008-01-14 by Jon

Hi Marcus, I thought that since the +5V part was working perfectly I d leave them out.. But i figure it wouldn t hurt to change them anyway. Thanks for the

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Re: [korgpolyex] Not getting -5V?

2008-01-13 by Marcus Wilson

Hi Jon in my earlier email, I suggest to replace Q1 and Q3 also ensure they are the right way around, and see if that helps I also gave part numbers for those

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Re: Not getting -5V?

2008-01-13 by patrioticduo

Unless you can see real physical damage to the coil, I doubt that the coil would be the problem. Coils are generally very reliable unless they are physically

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Not getting -5V?

2008-01-13 by Jon

Hi! I just got myself another broken Poly-800. (The first one I got is now beyond repair. As I was offered a second one. I thought: Two minus makes a plus..).

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Re: joystick progress

2008-01-07 by korgpolyex800

Yes, I need to look at the feasibility of doing this, but that is the plan. The further you push to left or right, up or down, the faster the program,

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Re: joystick progress

2008-01-07 by korgpolyex800

OK brainstorming a little here, The X and Y range is only 6 bits (64) so that is the reason why I am opting to use a push up, down configuration. How about

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Re: [korgpolyex] Re: joystick progress

2008-01-07 by David Mochen

Sorry to insist on this, but (and I m quite sure Mike has already thought of this) we could use both axis of the joystick (to scroll thru parameters AND to

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Re: [korgpolyex] joystick progress

2008-01-07 by David Mochen

It be GREAT if in EDIT mode, moving the joystick along the X axis would allow to scroll thru the parameters, and moving it along the Y axis would let us

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Re: [korgpolyex] Re: joystick progress

2008-01-07 by jure zitnik

i don t know about others, but i would actually prefer to have joystick set ABSOLUTE parameter value instead of relative (joystick extreme left = 0, extreme

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Re: joystick progress

2008-01-07 by Phoebe

... *bows down before the Poly800 GOD!!!* Seriously Mike, you re amazing. You re going to turn my p800 from a pseudo dust-collector to an active part of my

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Re: joystick progress

2008-01-07 by korgpolyex800

Yes, I think this is possible. I was thinking that I would have the bank hold button flash when in joystick mode. You press the bank hold once to go into

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Filter Overdrive

2008-01-07 by dragoon1880

Hi Ppl & Happy new year!!! does a mod for Filter OD (something close to Moogs little Fatty) exist? Does someone have some schematics or theory to that matters?

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joystick progress

2008-01-06 by korgpolyex800

I surprised myself today when I added code to determine the joystick position. I didn t think I would get it working so fast but I have successfully added the

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2 off Poly 800 mk1"s for sale

2008-01-06 by allan4023

Hi, I have for sale 2 mk1 Poly 800 synths.These are not modded apart from fitting the memory batts and cleaning and restoring the keypads. Slight wear on the

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arpeggiator/name

2008-01-06 by Shayne Cafferata

i like the arpeggiator on the dw8000(except that it doesn t transmit midi), especially it s ability to latch and remember the order of keypresses. if it had

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Re: [korgpolyex] The LFO's

2008-01-06 by David Mochen

Superb! That will allow to produce that beatiful sound (dunno why but I tend to associate it with Oberheims) you get when detuning the attack of one of the 2

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The LFO's

2008-01-05 by Michael Hawkins

I just realized I didn t really answer your original question. There are now two LFO s. One is assigned to VCF and the other to the DCO s. So you can do what

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