KORG POLYSIX Analog Synthesizer 1981 | HQ DEMO

This movie shows the Korg Polysix in action, with high quality sound. Pure sound without any eq and external effects.

The Korg Polysix was the most successful analog synthesizer - like it was the Yamaha DX7 in the world of digital synthesizers.

Korg was inspired by the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 - in fact, the Polysix has SSM chips like the early Prophets. For this reason, it has a warm, "american" analog sound...

The Polysix can produce fat pads with the "ensemble" effect, which reminds me on old string machines. It also can produce great bass sounds in unisono mode. Weird sounds are possible with the filter resonance.

The hardware is solid, well made - except the original internal battery, which tends to leak. Especially when the Polysix is not turned on for a long time. So, please play yours, if you have one - or better, replace the original battery as soon you can.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mono/Poly
• Monopoly
• sci
• sequential
• circuits
• prophet-5
• Roland
• Juno-60
• Juno-106
• Prophet-600
• Prophet-08
• dave
• smith
• vintage

[majorhostage]

I seriously enjoyd the intro, the camaramovement+angles and the music are genius !!!!!

[AnalogAudio1]

@majorhostage thanks :-)

[plastikman2]

EXCELLENT demo, man! Thanks so much for doing this. I'm buying one tomorrow morning and can't wait after having heard what it can do with your video!

[AnalogAudio1]

@plastikman2 congratulations, It's a great machine, have fun!

[TheMCMXXL]

Huh? Cold sounding? Not able to sell? Put it into EBay, CZ-1 got $275 on Feb08, CZ101 got $202 on Feb12, CZ5000 got $225 on Feb13. "Cold" is a matter of taste, a matter of taste of the -listener-, not the creator. Put a Jarre-like "Oxygene french horn" sound made by a CZ into a song and 10.000 People will ask which analog Synthesizer made this. "Analog" and "warm" is a personal definition and not that, what is being recognized.

[jpirard]

I miss this one most of all. I WILL own one again. Best synth for the money.

[rockengracia]

OH LOOORD....

I WANT! I NEED A POLYSIX!!!

[goldenroland]

@DJPeteJames

The VCO's are a discrete design by KORG and is not an IC chip.

[gatsbysdead]

Wow, yours is in awesome shape. The battery leaked on mine, so the waveforms, effects, octaves, and the attenuator don't work at all, filter only barely works, and someone (ok, me when I was like 12) messed up the tuning of the voicing. In other words, playing it sounds a bit like an elephant death cry.

[YesWeDanceGenova]

@DJPeteJames Korg Polysix doesn't use any Curtis chip as VCOs. You can find the service manual on web.

[douro20]

Replace the battery...I need to do that with my DW8000, but not before I get MIDI cables for it so I can restore the patches!

[douro20]

@DJPeteJames

Knowing Korg, they are probably custom Korg chips.

[lordoid]

@DJPeteJames A little bit late but: The noise level highly increases when you turn the analog effect section on. :) Filter is SSM2044, Envelopes are SSM2056.

[courtaaron]

Ah. The memories! I remember playing the Poly6 in 1985. Great instrument. Ever play around with the cassette interface for patches? Had challenges with my setup at the time, if I recall. The arpeggio was neat, for sure! Great demo of the sounds and capabilities.

[ostrichjerky23ok]

@subbahh When referring to synths, analog refers to a synth with voltage controlled oscillators or digitally controlled oscillators, although many purists do not define the latter as truly analog. The alternative would be a digital signal processing synth, which is essentially a computer recreating the functions of analog parts with a resolution of digital bits. The main difference is that analog systems deliver voltages to circuits and digital systems use strings of on or off values (1 or 0).

[hoipoloi2]

@DenimArcade Good for you! My batt did the same thing. Unfortunately I was less handy w/said soldering iron, UGH! I miss it.