KORG POLY-800 Analog Synthesizer 1984 | HQ DEMO | PATCHES

The Korg Poly-800 came out 1984 and is an interesting analog synthesizer with usable, interesting sounds. It has MIDI, runs even on batteries, and can be used as a remote keyboard. It was cheap, almost every musician could afford one – and can afford it even today. It has digital controlled oscillators (DCO’s). Not digital oscillators – they are just controlled digitally. Actually, it has just square waveforms. Combining different footages of squares you’ll obtain the usual saw, pulse and square waveforms – and some more. In the WHOLE mode it’s 8-voice polyphonic. In DOUBLE MODE you have 2 DCO’s per voice, this sounds best. This however, reduces the polyphony to 4 voices. It has a VCF – a real resonant analog filter. It also has 3 complex envelopes and a noise generator. It also has a switchable CHORUS, CHORD MEMORY and a polyphonic STEP SEQUENCER. What a pity that it does not have something like RING MOD or OSC SYNC. It also lacks portamento and PWM. But okay, it was a small budget synth. There also was a POLY-800 MK II, which had a programmable delay instead of the MK I’s chorus. Also more MIDI functions and a bigger sequencer memory. But the sound of the filter is not as smooth as on the MK I. The sound does not reach the warmth of the original Poly-800. The Korg EX-800 is the desktop / rack version of the Poly-800. It has the same features and sound but CHORD MEMORY is missing. And it can’t run on batteries. A desktop version EX-800 II never existed. In this movie I …
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