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My Korg Poly-61 working again
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:00 pm
by StudioF
Afer many years i decided to fix my Poly-61. The keyboard was pretty bad, ( bought it that way) i wassn't able to play on the board because the keys didn't respond any more. and tapping more than once didn't do the trick. but i found this webtutorial ( thanks to synthforum.nl) I cleaned the board and it's working again like it's brandnew
link
I'm so happy now
Studio F
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:02 pm
by GeeJee
Great. Congrats! What's its sound like?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:09 pm
by StudioF
It has a pretty raw sound.
poly-61
I didn't made this mp3.
Studio F
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:31 pm
by Nico_Noyau
So what do you wait for to make a demo ?
This synth seems to be pretty cool for electro/trance stuff, can you confirm that ?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:45 pm
by GeeJee
That sounded pretty neat
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:55 pm
by radek tymecki
Poly61 is one of my favorite synths. Has great dirty filter. It's good for lo-fi or sth.
Dunnow what do ya wanna know more?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:55 pm
by StudioF
i think i can get some nice trancesounds out of it, but i think this synth is more suitable for more traditional synth sounds Bass and strings. I loaded the original sounds into it now. It has been many years from now that i heard this synth. glad i fixed it. For me the Poly-61 is more like a collectors item then a synth i would use. ( has no midi)
Studio F
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:36 pm
by radek tymecki
StudioF wrote:i think i can get some nice trancesounds out of it, but i think this synth is more suitable for more traditional synth sounds Bass and strings. I loaded the original sounds into it now. It has been many years from now that i heard this synth. glad i fixed it. For me the Poly-61 is more like a collectors item then a synth i would use. ( has no midi)
Studio F
u can buy Korg's midi for it, or Kenton's.... Or just buy Poly61M
or... hmmm... use trigger for arpeggios
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:44 pm
by Nico_Noyau
I misunderstood the Poly61 with the Polysix, sorry
But listening to the demo you gave, it's a nice synth, indeed !!
I like the sounds used for the sequences
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:46 pm
by GeeJee
If only the polysix had 2 oscillators...
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:18 pm
by radek tymecki
GeeJee wrote:If only the polysix had 2 oscillators...
well... there is very simple mod
to use saw and pulse wave at the same time
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:28 pm
by GeeJee
Yeah, but 2 or 3 full oscs would have been neat.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:15 pm
by Jakob BC
Seems like I have underestimated this synth. I have also thought about it as a crappy digital sounding analogue synth. It is not that bad, but who got the stupid idea to make it difficult to program synths at that time. We want sliders and knobs
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:18 pm
by Nico_Noyau
That's exactly what I thought, why the heck did they remove knobs to replace them by buttons one day, did they drink ?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:35 pm
by radek tymecki
GeeJee wrote:Yeah, but 2 or 3 full oscs would have been neat.
indeed
maybe mono/poly then ??