A question for anyone here ; I have the korg poly 800 hooked up to a roland TR707 Rythem Composer. I have the MIDI hooked up, the left and right jacks connected to eachother etc, I listen to the sound through my head phones. if I wanna hear both these instruments through speakers how do I hook them up.
@@AbsurdTV1 Thanks ! Actually I just used a wire, I connected the right to right and left to left of each instrument and it works ! I may add a Hammond organ later on, then I will need a 3 or 4 channel mixing board to play all 3 at once.
Aw man, Thirteen year old kid at the old 'A1 Music' shop in Manchester, 1984. Drooling over a Poly800 being demonstrated to a boy(younger than me) with his mum with her cheque book out!!! Couldn't keep my hands off it, until the guy in the shop kicked me out. HATED that kid at the time, needles to say that shop Hated me:) This synth was a revolution when it came out, much cheaper than a Poly 61 or a Juno 6 by about £400! Yeah, they cut some corners but still this synth holds it own, nice one!
Love this synth, with or without effects it can really get the job done. These sounds remind me of when I used to spend all my time making track after track with it because it was my only synth at the time. Love the step sequencer too omg.
I've had a reverse coloured keys Poly 800 for years and have many times considered selling it - then I get back to my senses and pat myself on the back for not selling! She's a beaut!!
This was my first and last synth, bought in 1984. I enjoyed tweaking the preset sounds, in particular, to get percussion effects. It worked well when multi tracking.
This was my very first synth I owned. Even tho it's small, it packed a huge punch. And, if you know what you're doing with programming it, you can do AMAZING patches.
Very nice! Even today you would still pay about the same price for one. Not many synths have such a stable price in a 35 years period on the used market :-)
Ah my first poly synth had much fun with it in the mid 80s. Definitely benefits from adding some external effects. I usually was using two oscillators per note so only four notes at a time, but very warm rich sound.
Oh man, this brings back memories ;-) I had the rackversion. - EX800 - Programmed so many patches on it. It worked great as a stack-synth. | Thanx 4 uploading : : :
DCO: digitally controlled oscillator. The oscillators are pure analogue, only the frequency signal is controlled by a computer which means you get a more accurate, less " drifty " and "organic" sound. A lot of poly synths of the 80's contain DCO's, no matter the price.
I have one since 1991 and now it is just residing in a corner of my studio, well I think I shall reactivate it again ;-) good video and excellent skills, well done.
Especially powerful synth -3 complex e.g.'s- i remember hooking up an ex-800 and feeling there was no limit to my chording power! Hearing these sounds takes me back!! I was pennyless, but the sound ...
This is agreat sounding synth, excellent pads and nice 80s bass but I was shocked at how close the Poly 850 vsti demo was to the real thing, it complements the hardware almost perfectly to my ears. I had to turn down the volume on the real thing to make sure it was the software actually playing.
I did a lot of my early music on one of these, you can hear on my album Three Wishes on UA-cam. The sounds always make me tingle. Poor Poly is retired now but her spirit lives on in a new invention I use.
Wow! Nice work! You make this old DCO synth sound better than it deserves to. Nice programming and nice playing, on your part! (The KORG POLY-800 was my first synth, back in 1985. I always thought it sounded thin and 'grainy' so I bought a used KORG Polysix and loved it! I started buying up all the old analogs when they were 'dirt-cheap' because everyone wanted samplers, FM synths, and the Roland D-50. :-P Your vid makes me wanna go back and rediscover my old '800'! Thanks, Bud!
Hi Christian. Ufff man, i installed this patch today and your work took my keyboard to a whole new game. Fantastic job ! I'm impressed at the sound quality and output level...I'm only on 5 at the volume level and the sounds are blasting out with furious dynamics. Thanks for sharing !
OK Chef, da ich wohl morgen einen Poly 800 geschenkt bekomme, das Ding Midi hat und dein Soundset der Hammer in Tüten ist wäre es super wenn wir da ins Geschäft kommen! Hammer-Arbeit!
This was my first analog. I sold it, because at that time I was after knobs, more flexibility and a more complex architecture. When I look back and listen to this I like this synth. This, Poly 61 and Roland Alpha Juno are one of the softest sounding polysynths ever. They have a certain hollow quality to their sound which can work extremely well in some situations. They don't cut through a mix, but are wonderful when a softer, fuzzy sound is needed. I kind of want one again :D
Man, I had one of these! I used it mostly as a bass synth in my teenage band growing up, and damn it would regularly shake stages! Definitely limited, but it had some character though!
This is a really great demo! I have one of these. I made a ton of music with this keyboard. The midi function is a little iffy, but with patience it can work fine. I should post some of my old works some day, just to get this keyboard's sounds out there for posterity. Thanks for the post! ~Jon
Just goes to show, it's ok to listen to others opinions, but there's a lot of synth snobs outhere, so best to judge yourself, if you like it or not. I think it sounds amazing. But aa Synth is only as good as the person programming it, to bring the best out of it. No mattrer what make it is. this a very inspiring and brilliant demo.. On my shopping list after this. Thank you so much.
Had one of the inverse colour ones - added a DX7 and also a Seiko Ds 202 - What brilliant noises they made. Not a musician, but later had to go for a few lessons! Was more interested in programing these synths. Great times those. Sadly all sold many years ago.
after several hours spent (unsuccessfully) to find every possible way at the right volume, I tried to load the patch via phone Samsung GT8500 Wave ...... sounds loaded in less than 1 minute. ... fantastic.....
I was looking at one of these today. I have to wait until it's working though as it's a project that they are fixing. If they quote me a decent price I may well get it because of your demo. You've sold me on it and I'd definitely buy your patches
@@AnalogAudio1 When the shops open again I'm going to check to see if they still have it. I think the battery went and it doesn't have any sounds. If they can give it to me for a good price I'll take it and buy all your patches for it. I think your patches would definitely be worth it and it could be my portable poly synth.
No not quite as fat or as detuned like movement as Juno (I have AJ2) cause it lacks pulse width (I own both) but in dual mode it can achieve some unusual sounds.
Not really try getting great a string pad out of it , you have to put it into dual mode and then you only have 4 note poly imo it excels in basic brass , bells , bass , funky Leeds , weird sounds via it’s extra envelope parameters , effects using it’s reso and white noise + organ & organ like pads plus a few more, it’s ok but I prefer the AJ2 I own both.
Yeah I have one and it’s very evocative. I don’t know enough about synths to explain it. My virtual synths sound cleaner and more pristine, but the Poly 800 takes me to a different planet when I play it.
Analog synth... :-D It was my first synth, it's a little good machine, expecially for some pads, but it's not actual analog; it use digital osc with a bad sound, less by analog taste for sure, some patch came good, but ever with some plastic taste in it's sound. The "data entry" was a bad way to release some cheap synth in the '80s, because it's an horrible way to create a sound, expecially with the complicate envelope section. I kept again my Poly 800, for some patch is good, but as a synth is a very poor machine...
Wished I'd never sold it...some twenty years ago....regrets. The machine made so much avances, at the time, towards me and my love for the |P|O|L|Y |8|0|0 will be one of eternal values.
When I think that this synth is cheap, raw, sometimes not well playiable, and gave me endless troubles to find a good sound, and I think at the same time that still surprises me, well, this MUST mean that this little toy is a great machine.
I don't understand why some people continue to hate on the Poly 800. For a vintage synth with two DCOs and a VCF that you can still get for under $200, it sounds really good to me. I bought a mk II at a pawn shop several years ago for around $75. I will never sell it. Very capable early 80s polysynth.
wow this is soouu nice sounding machine. and underestimated. In serbia there is one piece in mint condition for 200 euro with Moog slayer filter mod...Old school sound
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Do you want these patches (sounds) for your POLY-800 or EX-800? You can buy these patches, read the video description for details.
Hi getting mine next week. Will contact you, these are awesome !
A question for anyone here ; I have the korg poly 800 hooked up to a roland TR707 Rythem Composer. I have the MIDI hooked up, the left and right jacks connected to eachother etc, I listen to the sound through my head phones. if I wanna hear both these instruments through speakers how do I hook them up.
Nice!!! I got the rack unit!!
@@ErikD71buy a mixer! Theres tons of mixers to choose from.
@@AbsurdTV1 Thanks ! Actually I just used a wire, I connected the right to right and left to left of each instrument and it works ! I may add a Hammond organ later on, then I will need a 3 or 4 channel mixing board to play all 3 at once.
I just love the wavelab 3.0 rec. meters in the background!
Aw man, Thirteen year old kid at the old 'A1 Music' shop in Manchester, 1984. Drooling over a Poly800 being demonstrated to a boy(younger than me) with his mum with her cheque book out!!! Couldn't keep my hands off it, until the guy in the shop kicked me out. HATED that kid at the time, needles to say that shop Hated me:) This synth was a revolution when it came out, much cheaper than a Poly 61 or a Juno 6 by about £400! Yeah, they cut some corners but still this synth holds it own, nice one!
Just found this keyboard at goodwill for 10 bucks. This is a huge upgrade from my Casio
cheers! Nice trade
that having been said the casio CA 110 is a good keyboard
robinsss agreed! It has a bunch of samples from the Casio CZ series of synthesizers. Sounds awesome!
10 bucks??? Here in Greece they sell it for 320€!!!
Hahahaha
Fantastic video. It really shows how GOOD the Poly 800 can sound.
I really like the sound from this Korg. The limitations are high but the sound itself has a character that a lot of synths lack.
Love this synth, with or without effects it can really get the job done.
These sounds remind me of when I used to spend all my time making track after track with it because it was my only synth at the time. Love the step sequencer too omg.
I've had a reverse coloured keys Poly 800 for years and have many times considered selling it - then I get back to my senses and pat myself on the back for not selling! She's a beaut!!
a reverse color is the only one I'd consider...just for the visual appeal
That's the one I had. Kind of regret trading it all those years ago.
It was my first analog synthesizer! I still have it. Great patches, specially at 5:18 - sounds like "Don't Go" Yazoo intro :) Wow!
This was my first and last synth, bought in 1984. I enjoyed tweaking the preset sounds, in particular, to get percussion effects. It worked well when multi tracking.
This was my very first synth I owned. Even tho it's small, it packed a huge punch. And, if you know what you're doing with programming it, you can do AMAZING patches.
I have this too, I bought it because Eddie Layton used it at yankee stadium and I always loved the sound.
One of my first synths I found for a friend in 1986 in a pawn shop for 200$ ! amazing!
Very nice! Even today you would still pay about the same price for one. Not many synths have such a stable price in a 35 years period on the used market :-)
Uno de los mejores sintetizadores de la historia. Un pionero inolvidable.
Played one of these in 1983. Great “live” patches, easy to transport and very road worthy. Made tweaking on the fly a pleasure.
my girlfriend made me a gift yesterday by buying your patches for my korg p800. they sound great, congrats! you did a great job!!!
Marry her, you’ve got yourself a keeper!
I had one and was always frustrated but oddly, I now miss it. I was in a band in the 80s and strapped it as a keytar. Hilarious now.
Ah my first poly synth had much fun with it in the mid 80s. Definitely benefits from adding some external effects. I usually was using two oscillators per note so only four notes at a time, but very warm rich sound.
It sounds really beautiful .!
This patchbank is awesome!!
I just can't stop playing......
Thanx :)
That is the most beautiful keyboard I have ever heard in my life. I must start bidding on one on eBay this instant.
Great sounds and melody! Really like your style of playing :D
Sounds better than the minilogue 😎
Yeah, the real 80's analog sound vs modern analog sound
@@AnalogAudio1 thank you dude for your videos. I learn a lot even that I been using synths since 1985 😎
Oh man, this brings back memories ;-)
I had the rackversion. - EX800 - Programmed so many patches on it.
It worked great as a stack-synth.
| Thanx 4 uploading : : :
my first polyphonic synthesizer back in the 80s. got some neat quirks with the chordmemory, monophonic filter and midi omnimode always set to ON.
DCO: digitally controlled oscillator. The oscillators are pure analogue, only the frequency signal is controlled by a computer which means you get a more accurate, less " drifty " and "organic" sound. A lot of poly synths of the 80's contain DCO's, no matter the price.
Amazing!
My first synth when I was 19. I wasn't in Vietnam but I was 19...
for the few ;-)
N-N-N Nineteen
I have one since 1991 and now it is just residing in a corner of my studio, well I think I shall reactivate it again ;-) good video and excellent skills, well done.
Especially powerful synth -3 complex e.g.'s- i remember hooking up an ex-800 and feeling there was no limit to my chording power! Hearing these sounds takes me back!! I was pennyless, but the sound ...
Even though I've only used VST emulations, I've come to appreciate Korg envelopes for that reason.
Oh man I had one of those in 1984. So sweet!
Wonderful and relatively cheap synthesizer, super easy to program, absolutely enjoyable ❤️
This is agreat sounding synth, excellent pads and nice 80s bass but I was shocked at how close the Poly 850 vsti demo was to the real thing, it complements the hardware almost perfectly to my ears. I had to turn down the volume on the real thing to make sure it was the software actually playing.
What a great demo of what this synth is capable of. Thanks for sharing!
I did a lot of my early music on one of these, you can hear on my album Three Wishes on UA-cam. The sounds always make me tingle. Poor Poly is retired now but her spirit lives on in a new invention I use.
Wow! Nice work! You make this old DCO synth sound better than it deserves to. Nice programming and nice playing, on your part! (The KORG POLY-800 was my first synth, back in 1985. I always thought it sounded thin and 'grainy' so I bought a used KORG Polysix and loved it! I started buying up all the old analogs when they were 'dirt-cheap' because everyone wanted samplers, FM synths, and the Roland D-50. :-P Your vid makes me wanna go back and rediscover my old '800'! Thanks, Bud!
thank you :-)
Hi Christian.
Ufff man, i installed this patch today and your work took my keyboard to a whole new game.
Fantastic job ! I'm impressed at the sound quality and output level...I'm only on 5 at the volume level and the sounds are blasting out with furious dynamics. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you!
Such iconic sounds. Was an awesome keyboard back then.
OK Chef, da ich wohl morgen einen Poly 800 geschenkt bekomme, das Ding Midi hat und dein Soundset der Hammer in Tüten ist wäre es super wenn wir da ins Geschäft kommen! Hammer-Arbeit!
I’ve one of these and I love the sequencer with the awesome 80s patches
This was my first analog. I sold it, because at that time I was after knobs, more flexibility and a more complex architecture. When I look back and listen to this I like this synth. This, Poly 61 and Roland Alpha Juno are one of the softest sounding polysynths ever. They have a certain hollow quality to their sound which can work extremely well in some situations. They don't cut through a mix, but are wonderful when a softer, fuzzy sound is needed.
I kind of want one again :D
An alpha juno c'ant cut through a mix???
Man, I had one of these! I used it mostly as a bass synth in my teenage band growing up, and damn it would regularly shake stages! Definitely limited, but it had some character though!
This is a really great demo! I have one of these. I made a ton of music with this keyboard. The midi function is a little iffy, but with patience it can work fine. I should post some of my old works some day, just to get this keyboard's sounds out there for posterity. Thanks for the post! ~Jon
thx man - great demo! excellent oldschool keyboard :)
Great demo!
It was one of mine favorite synth's in the early 80's!
Thanks for posting.
Really nice sounds that show off what this nice little keyboard was capable of. Well done.
thanks!
Wonderful Demo! Thanks
Thank you for the awesome demo!
Great atmosphere.
Enjoyed.
Awesome demo! Loved every second of it. Makes me want to pick one of these up
after watching this video, I'll definitely get one of these!
um, wow.. this sounds kind of awesome for such a budget synth!
Great patches!
thanks!
Just goes to show, it's ok to listen to others opinions, but there's a lot of synth snobs outhere, so best to judge yourself, if you like it or not. I think it sounds amazing. But aa Synth is only as good as the person programming it, to bring the best out of it. No mattrer what make it is. this a very inspiring and brilliant demo.. On my shopping list after this. Thank you so much.
Had one of the inverse colour ones - added a DX7 and also a Seiko Ds 202 - What brilliant noises they made. Not a musician, but later had to go for a few lessons! Was more interested in programing these synths. Great times those. Sadly all sold many years ago.
after several hours spent (unsuccessfully) to find every possible way at the right volume, I tried to load the patch via phone Samsung GT8500 Wave ...... sounds loaded in less than 1 minute. ... fantastic.....
Well, With everyone posting "ooh and aah" we can say goodbye to the sub $200 prices.
You're all good man, I just saw one for 222 dollars on ebay in perfect condition.
i'm seeing them for like $400 now ;-;
This synth does not cost more than 200. I don´t understand how people pay $250€, or even 300-350 bucks, for a synth like this one.
ewk alt yeah 450 now 😣
I just got one for 207$ hopefully the thing works... Ebay bidding was super easy with their app.
I was looking at one of these today. I have to wait until it's working though as it's a project that they are fixing. If they quote me a decent price I may well get it because of your demo. You've sold me on it and I'd definitely buy your patches
I'm ready ;-)
@@AnalogAudio1 When the shops open again I'm going to check to see if they still have it. I think the battery went and it doesn't have any sounds. If they can give it to me for a good price I'll take it and buy all your patches for it. I think your patches would definitely be worth it and it could be my portable poly synth.
Perfect instrument.... KORG's Legend.
Very underrated synth!!
Sounds awesome 👏
Amazing sound right there!!!! 🎉😢😮😅
and I thought it would sound bad, after reading so many negative reviews???
sounds beautiful to me. verrrrrrry 80's!!!
I have one of the beauties, paid £70 for it off Ebay about 12 years ago. Great little synth!
so beautiful Synth, I'm close tu buy one! greetings! good demo!
Hi nacho
@@chinossynthesizer705 hi Chino!!
It sounds beatiful here, makes me regret selling mine, the strings and pads sound warm and lush and nicer than my Juno 1 :O
such a good demo
Absolutely beautiful, I hadn't heard much about this before but it sounds just as good as a Juno. You could do a lot of 80's TV soundtracks with this.
No not quite as fat or as detuned like movement as Juno (I have AJ2) cause it lacks pulse width (I own both) but in dual mode it can achieve some unusual sounds.
Not really try getting great a string pad out of it , you have to put it into dual mode and then you only have 4 note poly imo it excels in basic brass , bells , bass , funky Leeds , weird sounds via it’s extra envelope parameters , effects using it’s reso and white noise + organ & organ like pads plus a few more, it’s ok but I prefer the AJ2 I own both.
something haunting about the sound of this synth
Yes, it's my childhood.
As an 80's child, there is so much instant recall with this (movies, videos, etc) Played one of these in my high school band room...
Yeah I have one and it’s very evocative. I don’t know enough about synths to explain it. My virtual synths sound cleaner and more pristine, but the Poly 800 takes me to a different planet when I play it.
OMG...I still have one of these in storage. Must dig it out!
Would love to know the song starting @4:07. Anyone? Great patch for that one too.
Sniff....sniff... brings back some memories!
Good sound 80 /90S !
Great analog synth for the money
Analog synth... :-D
It was my first synth, it's a little good machine, expecially for some pads, but it's not actual analog; it use digital osc with a bad sound, less by analog taste for sure, some patch came good, but ever with some plastic taste in it's sound.
The "data entry" was a bad way to release some cheap synth in the '80s, because it's an horrible way to create a sound, expecially with the complicate envelope section.
I kept again my Poly 800, for some patch is good, but as a synth is a very poor machine...
Wished I'd never sold it...some twenty years ago....regrets. The machine made so much avances, at the time, towards me and my love for the |P|O|L|Y |8|0|0 will be one of eternal values.
the very last patch sounds so nice
so... you are a great synth player!
thanks
GREAT!
underrated video...
Whoa, lush sounds
damn that sounds good
Don't shoot me... but I like the Poly 800's sound much better than the Juno 6/60.
bang
@@removalist1995 bang bang
No... 🤓
Brings back memories of the one I had
NICE KEYBOARD! Not the musical one. I mean the green and yellow one. Awesome.
Dead banter.
T__T
there is even a version in pink
When I think that this synth is cheap, raw, sometimes not well playiable, and gave me endless troubles to find a good sound, and I think at the same time that still surprises me, well, this MUST mean that this little toy is a great machine.
i had one of those,it got burned in a vehicle fire,those are really nice synthesizers,hopefully i can find another one on ebay.
wow, i love the sound of this. better than juno's, imo.
looks like a toy but sound like a beast
I don't understand why some people continue to hate on the Poly 800. For a vintage synth with two DCOs and a VCF that you can still get for under $200, it sounds really good to me. I bought a mk II at a pawn shop several years ago for around $75. I will never sell it. Very capable early 80s polysynth.
I've still got mine, was used on the first track recorded by Sara MacLachlan!
ahhh
you're responsible of my new synth-crush
Such a nice instrument! Would like to buy one after experimental VST action with at least some Poly 800 feeling 😊
wow this is soouu nice sounding machine. and underestimated. In serbia there is one piece in mint condition for 200 euro with Moog slayer filter mod...Old school sound
Sounds great
Great sounds!
so beautiful
Feels like inside Blade Runner!!! Great!!!
Un mostro 🎹👍
Great demo thanks!
thanks!
going to buy a 800 on the strength of this review/demo.
thnx!
Awesome!
Beautiful.