Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

Hi and Welcome to the forum!

 

Sounds like an interesting collection of gear you have there. We all look
forward to hearing about your latest Polysix developments as and when they
happen!

 

Bye for now! 

 

From: PolySix@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PolySix@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
acousmatique
Sent: 15 August 2009 16:09
To: PolySix@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PolySix] Hoping to restore and mod my "new" Polysix

 

  

Greetings, all. I have been slowly building a keyboardless modular, and
noticed that the Mrs keeps wanting to play chords so she can emulate her
corny new wave/synth pop favorites. So I decided to look out and buy a
cheap-ish analog polysynth for her sometime. Criteria were real VCOs (unlike
my Juno106 and SQ80) and analog envelopes (unlike my sequential Max). So
after a couple of weeks I scored an inexpensive Polysix - and a Korg DVP-1 -
from a guy out west.

The P6 arrived yesterday. The boards look great but the wood is crumbling
apart in my hands. I was planning on getting a synthwood kit for it anyway.
The top of the chassis looks fine, but there is rust on the bottom rear and
inside. It is too humid here now, but when the weather dries I am going to
brush all of the rust off, repaint the back in black, and clearcoat inside.
The keyboard assembly works but is corroded, it is going to get cleaned
also.

So far as play goes, voices go missing. I don't know tonal stuff, but I
start pressing keys and it goes 1xx456. Also the saw sounds normal, but the
PW and PWM sound weird, like they are always being modulated. I am only
going to put so much effort into diagnosing problems now while the thing is
so crusty.

I will probably do a few mods to make programming a bit more interesting.
Maybe loopable envelopes, LFO range, detune. And maybe a voice mod... like
either duplicating the VCOs for two per voice, or else add some kind of
waveform multipliers after the single VCOs.

If I am having this much fun with it even broken, it must be a cool synth! I
will read up on past posts and study the library materials in the meanwhile.

L8tRz





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