![]() That’s good, because you really wouldn’t pay for an emulation of a Poly-800. And now it’s free, in a plug-in emulation. It was cheap when new, it’s cheap used – perhaps the earliest iconic affordable poly. (That chorusing is necessary to the sound.) There’s still a 24 dB filter, three envelope generators, and a simple pseudo-stereo chorusing effect, plus a built-in sequencer. And the eight-voice configuration allows a 4-voice Double mode, with two oscillators per voice for a fatter sound. Each has additive harmonics (16′, 8 ‘, 4′, 2’). There’s one digital oscillator per voice, but 8 of them (to Roland’s 6). Whew! Dodged a bullet there.)Īnd it’s actually a very sensible, balanced polysynth. ![]() Don’t drive up its price because – it’s worthless. In fact, tell everyone you know to buy something else. It actually remains one of the best buys on used 80s synths if you want some retro hardware. But it’s excellent, and you want it anyway – especially for free. And KORG would introduce an instrument that … actually … would never really be as legendary as other 80s synthesizers.
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