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This modified poly 800 is one of the many synths
that have been reviewed in the reason sound gear
gallery, it is one of the rarer reverse key versions.
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This modified poly 800 is one of the many synths
that have been reviewed in the reason sound gear
gallery, it is one of the rarer reverse key versions.
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Though it
is a bit out of date it has found new life, like many analogue
synths. I used it as a second midi controller and stage
prop though I never got drunk enough to put a guitar strap on
it and prance around the stage (unlike many keyboard players of
the 80). It can run on batteries, but you have to watch out because
if you are not careful the batteries run out and you loose all of your
patches. I wired this one up so that 1 big cannon
connector supplied the power and the midi, this prevented hassles with the fiddly power adaptor.
It makes an ok midi
controller but it has no velocity and only transmits on channel
1. I worked around this by routing it through a sequencer and
only using it on those patches that didn't require velocity. The reason this synth is now popular again is
because it is analogue and cheap. It has a feature called chord
memory that allows you to play a chord with one key, the trick is
that you program an octave unison chord into it to create a great analogue
stack. This has the limitation that it only remembers one
chord. One way around this is to sample your analogue stack.