The low price for a used unit (in the 1990s it fell to under $200) and partial analog design of the Poly-800 made it appealing for modification by hobbyists. Siel produced an almost identical synthesizer, the DK-70 around the same time period. It featured a digital delay instead of a chorus effect, and included limited MIDI SysEx functionality. After production of the original keyboard ended in 1985, the enhanced Poly-800 MkII was released. ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ībout a year after the Poly-800 was introduced, a keyboardless, rackmount/tabletop version, called the EX-800, was released, adding limited MIDI SysEx capability. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. It was also available with reversed-colored keys, which gave an appearance similar to a Vox Continental organ. The Poly-800 could be run off batteries and had guitar strap pegs, allowing a performer to wear it like a guitar. Further it had three digital envelope generators, a noise generator, an LFO, and a chorus effect. In multi mode, each key pressed in turn triggers the filter envelope, even if other keys are still pressed down. In single mode, the first key pressed triggers the filter envelope, and unless all keys are released, the filter does not re-trigger. Like a monophonic synthesizer, the filter was switchable between single or multiple modes. It featured one analog resonant low-pass VCF with 24 dB/oct which was shared for all voices. It could be switched into double mode which stacks two DCOs for a fuller sound, but reduces the polyphony to 4 voices.
It had 8-voice polyphony ( paraphony) with one DCO per voice. Though the Poly-800 had MIDI, it did not feature MIDI SysEx functionality (except EX800 - the expander-version or by modding the Poly800 with additionally selectable EX-firmware-ROM), and patches had to be backed up to cassette tape. It featured a 49 key non-velocity sensitive keyboard, two buttons for data entry, and a joystick controller, which could modulate the DCO pitch or the VCF. Its initial list price of $795 made it the first fully programmable synthesizer that sold for less than $1000.
Korg poly 800 midi manual#
Sending a manual omni-mode-off cc command (cc 124, value 0) via behringer bcr2000 didn't work either but my behringer seems to have midi issues anyway (another story.).The Korg Poly-800 is a synthesizer released by Korg in 1983.
the only solution probably is a midi-filter box or a router/midi interface. i haven't checked the SN of my poly but it seems that it's one of that first run (it didn't have the memory battery build in either). i also found out that the first production run of poly 800s has an eprom build in which doesn't have a proper midi implementation. I've been searching the internet for a few days now and none of the tricks to turn off the omni mode did work. Omni hears all channels on the pipe, so that's probably ok with one other keyboard directly connected, but annoying if you have a router.
Old Korgs used omni mode as default, I guess to make it easier to connect one more keyboard. whyĭidn't it work anyway? i guess it's not working as it should.
i've already selected parameter 86 and changed the receive channel. I'm not quite getting what you're trying to tell me but i'll definitely give it a try. Those old MIDI implementations were kind of primitive. To change to POLY mode, select parameter 86 "MIDI RECEIVE CH", you don't have to change it but you have to select it. 01) it still accepts midi from all channels sending any midi-information (although the DAW or sequencer sends only on channel 02 the poly 800 still receives all the midi data, even if it's receive channel is set to 01).ĭoes anyone of you have any solution or idea for solving this problem? i'd really like to embed the poly 800 into my midi setup! anyway there's something thats bothering me: whenever i select the midi-receive channel on the poly 800 (e.g. it still works really fine and i actually am still in love with it. Mark the topic unread :: View previous topic :: View next topicįor several years now i've been owning a korg poly 800. Live at radio 1 Please visit the chatįorum index » Instruments and Equipment » General Discussion Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Chat Room FAQ Calendar Search Memberlist Usergroups Links