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Hey y’all,
I finally got up my playthrough of some of my favorite patches I’ve made on the Korg Poly 800.
I picked this up last year in a large synth bundle and honestly didn’t really care for it at first.
It has the Hawk 800 and Atomahawk mods so the front panel is basically useless and you have to use the manual or an editor to really use it.
Eventually I dusted it off and for f$@#s’ sake, this thing is crazy.
It’s honestly the most unpredictable synth I’ve ever played and very confusing to program but the results were usually wonderful and always interesting.
Anyway, check it out if you’d like to burn 30 minutes hearing some decent sounds.

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had an Ex-800 I picked up cheap back in the day. always felt just a bit too digital for my tastes but that filter can’t be beat.

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Seriously, the filter is killer. I so wish it wasn’t paraphonic, but, that adds to the character too.
Still got the ex?

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nah, sold it long ago. there is one patch i still just can’t recreate on my Alpha Juno tho . . . ha

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My first synth!!! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Same here.

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Exhibit number one in the case in favor of Korg’s quality. 40 years later they are still making sounds while looking decent.

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I have had about six of these over the years and am looking for more - they often die suddenly and fail in odd ways but as my first synth I have a soft spot for that calculator interface and incredible filter

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I also own one, first synth bought around 1985 I believe. Saved money for a year.

Check out the free fullbucket plugin:

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/fury800.html

It is not 100% but it does have the vibe. Plus full polyphony if you want to!!!

And you can load your patches if you have the tape dump as WAV!! That is so awesome.

This guy has other really good plugins like the BIT01 or DW8000.

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