Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

Fantastic work on the velocity mod, by the way! That's very
impressive. 

Cheers,
A. 

On 2015-12-01 09:08, eidorian@aladan.net
[PolySix] wrote: 

> This isn't specific to the PolySix, but here are
some guitar FX electronics sites that you might get some ideas from: 
>

> http://www.electrosmash.com/
> http://www.moosapotamus.net/
>
http://hammer.ampage.org/
> http://www.muzique.com/
>
http://www.geofex.com/ 
> 
> One very simple thing to try is to reduce
one of the supply voltages (or add a DC offset to the input, which
should be very nearly equivalent) on the voice summing op-amp stage, to
give you (voltage-controllable) asymmetrical clipping, similar to the
Moog CP3 module (which is quite a nice, musical effect in small
amounts). Then again, it still probably isn't quite what you're looking
for. 
> 
> Alternatively you could grab a cheap guitar pedal from
craiglist :) I have a box of them that I love trying out on my synths!

> 
> Cheers,
> A. 
> 
> On 2015-12-01 08:10, chipaudette@yahoo.com
[PolySix] wrote: 
> 
>> Hi All, 
>> 
>> After my Polysix be velocity
sensitive, I was really grooving on additional responsivness in the
electric piano (EP) and clav sounds from my Polysix. But those EP and
clav sounds weren't quite right...they were too clean. I needed a little
more compression and more grit. So, I started to look into modifying the
Polysix to give me some overdrive or distortion. 
>> 
>> My first try
was diode-based distortion. If you're interested, you can check out my
write-up and audio demos here: 
>> 
>>
http://synthhacker.blogspot.com/2015/11/polysix-drive-diode-distortion.html
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>> 
>> In the end, I decided that I didn't like the diode
distortion. Oh well. I'll have to try something else. I think that my
next attempt will be to add an overdrive capability to one of the
LM13600 OTAs. We'll see if that sounds any better. 
>> 
>> Does any of
you use an overdrive or distortion for certain sounds with your Polysix?

>> 
>> Chip
> 
> 




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