Korg Polysix MIDIfied, Modified, Circuit Bent and Customised

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Korg
• Polysix
• Poly
• Six
• MIDI
• Circuit
• Bent
• Bending
• Electronics
• VCO
• VCF
• VCA
• Oscillator
• Filter
• Analogue
• Synthesiser
• Synth
• LED

[PimpinBassie2]

How did you manage to silkscreen the synth?

[derrytift2]

@PimpinBassie2 Hi, I used Waterslide Decal Paper, do a search and you can find out all about it.

[henrikthedj]

Nasty colour but excellent mods.

Do you have some documentation about the mods somewhere online?

I think it would be nice to have pots on the VCO to VCF controls. Want to build!

One more thing, an external filter input would be fun...

Nice Jarre song on part 2...

Greetings from France!

[derrytift2]

Hi there, I'm afraid I didn't document it as I sort of made it up as I was going along. I did'nt use pots on the vco-vcf because calibrating it would have taken forever, and I wanted the effect to be the same across all six voices (I did use fixed resistors in line with the switches though). I did contemplate a filter input, but I couldn't figure out how to have one input going into the six filters without creating crosstalk between them.

[derrytift2]

I imagine that if i could get it to work then one input going through six keyboard controlled resonant filters may sound similar to, but not quite the same as a vocoder! So maybe if I get another Polysix I will try that. Also it may be worth me trying to add a feedback control to the chorus/flange/ensemble section. I am still desparately looking for another polysix at the moment. Maybe I'll try a different colour next time!

[nvanzoeren]

Nice made, very usefull mods !!!

The color, :D OMG!! i dont know about that :D

May i ask for how much it got sold for???

[derrytift2]

It sold for £640, I'll definately do the same mods again if I can get my hands on another!

[CleverDjembe]

You should have kept that opinion inside your crack-rotten half of a brain.

[PHAEDRIDER]

good thing thats just your opinion.. pink is something i see with my eyes. what i've heard in this video reaches places in my brain that i didnt know were there .. he;s proving in this video that the polysix is 100 percent analog, and exploiyted that as well.. ..

[quarktron]

Cool, love the mods you did to it. Some of those are pretty trick!

[Rememberthecat]

Awesome circuit bend! I don't find the color all that bad, fact it seems to fit the synth well! Know anyone doing bends in America that could do some bending on my Polysix? By the way anyone else hear the owl in the background!?!?

[devmiles]

great! only the color =(

[cannibalseatyourface]

you have become my mortal enemy!

[VectronMusic]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? D:

[jimmyallman]

Shit, i would have paid more for that !

[LittleNegrillio]

I wouldn't be caught DEAD up on stage with that!

Strictly for chicks!

[LittleTokyoOff]

how much did this go for?