The Korg Poly-61 was released in 1982 as the successor to the Polysix. It was somewhat of a step up from the Polysix, as it has 2 DCOs for better reliability. It also retained the arpeggiator of the Polysix. It has a very dirty sharp sound much like the Yamaha DX7. This is good if you are into the lo-fi sound of electronica. The Poly-61 can provide cool gritty basses or trippy analog sounds and fx.

Also added is the familiar Korg joystick, which can be used to modulate the VCO or the VCF. However, its filter only has 7 steps of resonance and is not as fat as the Polysix's filter. It also uses the same method of programming the Poly-800 and Yamaha DX-7 use, so it's not a very useful synth for real-time-tweaking junkies. The first Poly-61s didn't have MIDI, but the Poly-61M released in 1984 corrects this. Overall, the Poly-61 is still a decent synth, and it can be acquired for practically nothing! It has been used by FM Static and The Faint.

Zaphid

January 13, 2010 @ 8:54 am

Offcoarse i meant the poly 61!

Zaphid

January 13, 2010 @ 8:52 am

I must aggree with Stevo. I have and had a lot of top notch analogue synths but somehow this baby is still in my studio and get's used very often. It can sound really warm and i love the fact that the MG is not coupled to the joystick's modulation so it has 2 lfo's. Not really wel suited for effects but it does pads, bass and leads very well. I heard the midikit that CHD makes for the monopoly can also be used for the polysix after some minor modifications. A skilled tech could figure this out. *****

STEVO

December 21, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

Great synth, would never sell mine! Its limited in some ways but thats the beauty of it, easy programming and some clever feastures makes this stand up amonst the great analogue synths! seriously underated but if you look its got a massive following!

Pete synth

December 20, 2009 @ 9:53 am

Recently bought a poly 61, cant currently justifya poly six which go for £300+ (better than poly 61) but the poly 61 is great, better than the poly 800 by far, I have made some of my own patches, as you do, and I made one wicked pad/string sound which sound very close to the synth master himself (numan) on are friends electric! if you want the parameters for it send me a note. This poly is pre midi, but for what I need it for it plugs straight into my soundcard on my pc and links in nicely, even if its played live, as a lead or what have you.. Buy one! I would pay £200 for this. One for maikel yeremy, if you sold me something dodgy I would come to your house and knock you out. You cant hide behind your numerous ebay accounts forever. The world will find a way to get you back for your disgraceful dishonesty one day youll be a victim of someone like you.

Pepe

December 17, 2009 @ 4:06 pm

500$ is too much, even for a MINT Poly-61! I doubt that someone would pay so much for a broken one. I sold a perfect working P61 a few weeks ago and it went up to 235 EUR and that was a HIGH price for that thing! I have a second one, equipped with MIDI. Here in Germany, home of a lot of synth freaks, I would approximately get 350 EUR for it, but not a cent more.

But if your story is true... I don't like people that rip-off others like that! Shame on you! >:-[

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