With a light-weight plastic case, a couple low-profile sliders/knobs and only 49 keys, the Poly-800 can run on batteries and has guitar strap pegs so it can be worn like a keytar. Unlike the Juno, which was still a “studio” instrument, the Poly-800 was built for the performer.
KORG POLY 800 VS JUNO 106 PATVCHES GENERATOR
There’s also a stereo chorus effect, chord memory, a simple built-in sequencer, three digital envelope generators (for the oscillators, the noise generator and the filter), and a joystick used to adjust the pitch, modulation and the filter. The Poly-800 is an eight-voice instrument (two more than the Juno series) with 64 memory patches (half of what the Juno-106 offered) and up to 50 editable parameters! Like the Juno, the Poly-800 had one DCO per voice, although it did feature a Double mode in which the oscillators could be stacked up for a fuller sound and only four voices of polyphony. The Poly-800 was comparable to the Juno-106, with respect to the fact that musicians now had access to affordable programmable polyphonic analog synthesizers with memory storage, stable DCOs (digitally controlled oscillators) and a new state-of-the-art technology called MIDI (although there was no SysEx implementation yet). Perhaps the internal battery died but I never bothered to check.Īt a time when Roland was doing well with their Juno-series, KORG countered with a poly-synth of their own in 1983 with the Poly-800. Although I could still play in through MIDI, at a later stage it didn’t make any sound anymore.
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KORG POLY 800 VS JUNO 106 PATVCHES CRACKED
I accidently dropped it on its joystick which resulted in a cracked circuit board. Unfortunately, my KORG Poly 800 is not working any more. Frequency, (one-third) octave, and decade.Volume level calibration (K-(N) system).
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Korg provides lots of info for their "Newly Developed ADBSSR System". For example, just look at the info under the "6 Parameter Digital Envelope Generators" section. So detailed are the step-by-step instructions, that in many cases, the text in this poster replaces the need for a manual.Īnd where readers don't find step-by-step instructions, Korg provides other detailed information about the keyboard. So much reference information, all clearly laid out with some great design. What an awesome piece this brochure/poster is.