Everything seemed to be in working order. The tact switches were tight and responsive, clear sign that they had been replaced recently (or perhaps the synth was rarely used).
There was some mottling on the case but the buttons still had their original color, which is something of a miracle. I could always sell it for parts and get my money back anyway.Ĭosmetically, my new Poly-800 wasn’t in terrible shape. Seeing as it’s a Poly-800, and they sell for around $100 in Japan, I wouldn’t be too disappointed if I killed it. I couldn’t do much about the teal but I could add two knobs to bring direct control of the filter and cutoff parameters to the fore.
#Korg poly 800 module mods#
These mods require skills above and beyond what I have now, and I certainly don’t want to wreck them in the process, so when a cheap Poly-800 became available on Yahoo Auctions, I snapped it up in the hopes of trying the Moog Slayer Filter Mod.Īs anyone who’s looked at a Poly-800 knows, there are no knobs on the front panel, just a few buttons and a lot of teal. I’d like to add MIDI to my Korg Poly-61 and maybe improve the MIDI on my Roland JX-3P. I thought modding might be the logical next step from changing internal batteries and swapping out tactile switches. It'll be interesting to see whether I get to the point of catching it with the Rev2 too, but though it sounds great I don't see that being likely - it's just too much fun doing it on the P12.I’m trying to improve my electronics skills. So yes, the mighty have fallen and my Poly 800 now has the runner up spot. I think all Dave Smith synths offer shortcuts like this - it's on my Rev2 too (which is great), but despite this I still find myself writing more sounds on my P12 rather than the REV2 - I think the bigger LED screen just makes it less fiddly somehow and I always find navigating the UI of the REV2 frustrating compared to the P12. Without this I wouldn't have been anywhere near as creative from a sound design point of view as I have been and I really wish more synths had it. The shortcut to a Basic Program is brilliant IMO. I've had my P12 just over two years now and I still find myself discovering cool little things about it.
#Korg poly 800 module Patch#
On the Poly 800 all sounds were edits of existing presets to some degree as there was no default patch from which to start.ĭave Smith have to be given enormous credit for this, not just for making a lovely sounding synth, but for how they seem to have so perfectly struck the balance between having a user friendly synth yet having enough depth for longevity. I had it for more than a decade and wrote tons of sounds for it (at one point I owned THREE of them) and I'll always love it, but I'm pretty sure i'm even more prolific for sound creation on the P12 now than I was on the Poly 800 then.Ĭertainly for sounds from scratch.
In fact I've probably programmed more of my own sounds from scratch on the Prophet 12 now than I have on any other synth I've owned.īack in the day my first 'proper' synth was a Korg Poly 800.
I don't mean created a lot of bass & Leads, I mean I've saved a lot of my own sounds.
So shortcut latch & hold to basic program and away I went.ġ0 minutes later there I am saving a new sound, copying it to layer B on which I change the delay settings add a little glide tweak the cutoff and voila.a super cool bass and lead split! Yesterday whilst working on a remix I started experimenting by trying out a few sounds on my Prophet 12.
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