Vintage Synth Explorer

Hello I am in london and want to buy a poly 800 MK 2

had a poly800 for ages but the battery completly went and the MIDI wasnt very good at all......
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Have borrowed my friend's reverse coloured Poly 800 (he's got another one with a Moog Slayer kit on it) and I've got some 80's synth-pop style sounds, some timid "wowwy" basses and some thin pads out of it but haven't managed a nice fat crunchy analogue sound which's the best thing about vintage synths. To be honest I gave up trying to get a sound I liked because the number pad editing of parameters is endlessly frustrating. To change something like the filter cutoff you have to scroll through from 0 to 99 or press a series of mode buttons to change every parameter. Forget about taking it to a band jam expecting to be able to come up with some new sound as you go. It can take hours just to set up a program how you want it. Put aside a couple of days to set up a whole bank of original sounds. There's no triangle wave or reverse sawtooth to mix in either which is annoying. There is no comparison to the juno: I've never heard a juno sound bad. I'm yet to make the poly-800 sound good.

This is also used by Matt of the group "Matt & Kim."

Yuuk the black key version. I had the white key version for a short while but sold it as it only had 1 filter! Nice though as it was part of the first synths from korg that were based on PCM synthesesis. It cold do nice strings and had a versatile delay effect.

The Poly 800 is great for the price.
Got mine for 100 quid.
This would be a great starter synth for anybody, but if your into the really fat sounds of the JX, Juno or Jupiter series than there is no hope of it sounding as good.