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Original but cheesy Korg Poly-800 advert.

Why doesn't Jarre dance like that with his AX-1?????????

Duno how many euros is 99000 yens, but it seems to be a cool synth
Equin(00)xe :

Heh.

I'd prefer Jarre dancing like that with LAG Portable Circulaire though

I've never liked AX-1 much at all...

Equin(00)xe wrote:Why doesn't Jarre dance like that with his AX-1?????????

LOL

Jarre missed that 80s fashion of wearing his Houston/Lyon jacket with pop socks.

noyau wrote:Duno how many euros is 99000 yens, but it seems to be a cool synth
Equin(00)xe :

668 Euros. Possible. But still waaayy too much...*wuargh*

Stef

That would have been the Original Asking price....Not what there worth today nico...

You could probably pick up a Poly 800 for around 150 euros or less

Equin(00)xe wrote:That would have been the Original Asking price....Not what there worth today nico...

You could probably pick up a Poly 800 for around 150 euros or less

Even for 100€ I will not buy it
I don't have the use of it

Cool video!

JMJ should dance during Industrial Revolution!

noyau wrote:

Equin(00)xe wrote:That would have been the Original Asking price....Not what there worth today nico...

You could probably pick up a Poly 800 for around 150 euros or less

Even for 100€ I will not buy it
I don't have the use of it

Got to be honest,Although i love more or less every Korg synth,this is one the few I thought was a Pile of crap....I seen one in a secondhand shop last year for around £70,normally at that price i would have bought it,being Korg,but never did,knowing i would probably never actually use it within my setup for anything useful apart from gathering dust.......


going to my local music shop today,to check out the SH201..

now you can get poly800 for hmm 100$

Last year I was thinking of buying one because it isn't a very expensive synth, but the sound was too digital and thin, and it hasn't much editing options. So, I didn't buy one.

The only strength of the Poly800 are Basslines and -maybe- some Strings. It simply sounds (without effects) too "rectangular", if i may say so. It would be -sure- have nowadays a "cult status", if it couldn´t use the cheapo housing and provides different (more) waveforms like rectangle(PWM)/triangle/Saw/Sine for each oscillator. It´s like CASIOs CZ-Series. With a -bit- programming (and without using the bulit-in noisy chorus) they´re really capable to produce some fine sounds, but the programming procedure is simply too much work.

But in one case they strike today's devices without problems: They are very reliable built. I have nothing against a JP-8000, i own myself one, looks outside great, but it is inside "el cheapo" like hell, particularly the potentiometers. I have to change now on mine -everyone- of them, because they start to send to the ADC unreasonable values, because they lose slowly the contact. I´ll change half of them, but if the problem persists, i´ll sale the JP in parts.

Stef.

The worst thing in poly800 is battery... really crappy

radek tymecki wrote:The worst thing in poly800 is battery... really crappy

If your Poly has one, MK1 normally doesn´t have a battery (but you can solder one inside)....seems to be a general problem of KORG-Syths, which were built in the 80s. Polysix, Poly61, Poly800, some DW/EX...they seem to have all this battery leakage problem....

Stef