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Korg • Mono/Poly

A cool analog monophonic/polyphonic from Korg. It has 4 VCO's which can be shared in 4-voice Polyphonic mode, or linked in Unison for a versatile monophonic lead. Each VCO has its own level, tune, and waveform type control. Waveforms include sine, sawtooth, Pulse Width, and Pulse Width Modulation. It has a great VCF filter section as well as 2 envelope generators (one for the oscillators and one for the filter). There are also 2 individual LFO's which can be used to modulate the Pulse Width, envelope and Arpeggiator independently.

A very flexible and fun synth. Other cool tricks up its sleeve include chord memory and an effects mode in which oscillators have a variety of ways to be synced. The built-in arpeggiator and sequencer can run all 4 VCO's at a time or cycle through each voice per note! There's also portamento, CV/Gate, VCF and VCO mod inputs, white noise generator, and the pitch/mod wheels can be assigned to control LFO, pitch or the filter. Its sound quality is a little thin, but nice and very Korg. This synth is used by Hardfloor, Tangerine Dream, The Orb, 808 State, Juno Reactor, Megaton Matt Haines, Freddy Fresh, and the Chemical Brothers.

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Bitfinder

Posted 7 days ago

i sell mine in very good condition. Located in Ireland. just calibrated.
offers at bitfinder [at] mac [dot] com

Dante

Posted 11 days ago

I bought my MomoPoly when they first came out. It still works like new. I think this is a great lead synth. I get great sounds from it. I think something got lost when all the programable synths came out, it is great fun looking for new sounds because there is nothing there from the factory and this synth is the kind that you can just have a lot of fun with. It is expressive with the fat sounds one can get from 4 VCO

DiggyDOg

Posted 45 days ago

This is he one that got away! In 1990 I was looking at two synths in a pawn shop - this one for $100 and a Yamaha CS-50 for $150. While I don't regret chosing the CS-50 I should have bought both of them.

Paul

Posted 64 days ago

Lovely synth. This guy I know from down the road casually mentioned the other day that he's got one lying around dormant in the loft. Didn't think it was worth anything. I think I'll make him an offer to take it off his hands!! Love korg synths? You might like my music - www.myspace.com/theredshiftmachine

mezzo

Posted 67 days ago

Underrated and under appreciated. These are still many $$ less than any comparable ARP, Moog or even SH series synths but they certainly can hold there own. Yeah the 24db filter is not as thick and wonderful as the Moog but they do have 4 VCOs, cool sync and x-mod features and poly capability. I love the arpeggiator in poly mode with each VCO set to a different octave and/or waveform. This synth is all analog goodness.

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