From: grav@juno.com (chris r graves)
Subject: (idm) recommend analog synth
can someone please tell me info about some/all of the following
analog synths (i think they are analog).
Korg Poly-800
Korg Poly 800 II
regarding their amounts of:
- -knobs?
- -polyphony?
- -sound? (well, not amount, but quality... opinionated really)
- -(any others?)
I've got a Poly 800. It's pretty nice for what you can usually buy them
for (around $100). It's 8 voice poly and not multi-timbral. It's an
analog/digital hybrid synth, has DCO's, VCF, MG, Noise generator, etc.
It's square wave based but will also do a kinda saw tooth wave. There's
no knobs, all progamming is done through a digital interface (lots of
parameters to tweak with only an 8 digit pad and up/down buttons).
There's a a joystick that controls up/down pitchbend, vcf and dco
modulation. Makes good bass sounds and nice shimmering sweeping sounds.
It's stereo and has chorus built in. 64 memory locations that can be
dumped and loaded from tape. It also has a 250 note sequencer built in
which is good for appregios since it doesn't have an appregiator built
in. It also has midi in/out ports and a headphone jack. The main
difference with the II was they added a digital delay. You can get a
lot of weird sounds out of it.
on now: Hallucinogen "Twisted"