- Korg poly 800 internal battery how to#
- Korg poly 800 internal battery mod#
- Korg poly 800 internal battery plus#
- Korg poly 800 internal battery download#
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Also, fair warning to all- racism, sexism, hate speech, or harassment of any sort will result in an instant and permanent ban. Rules.NO PERSONAL ATTACKS Please keep comments constructive! Personal attacks, insults, and bad faith criticism of other posters' equipment or music will not be tolerated. Its real easy and shouldnt take more than 30minutes till you get the right level.good luck. It's picky about volume so i would turn it up to max first, then start reducing it by 10% till the patches take. There's so much space inside that there's little reason to try and cram it onto the pcb.regarding the loading of patches from wave, i've found that if you turn the volume of your outs up to around the 50% mark, it'll take in one shot. Any holder of the right size is fine, it just depends on if you want to put it on the board, or use wires and place it away from the board, which is what i personally prefer. There is a version of the mkI that has an internal battery too which is identical to the mkII battery.the removal and replacement procedures are the same though, desolder the battery, and solder in a new battery holder. Short between trace and trace and D15 as shown.
Korg poly 800 internal battery plus#
The upper land is positive.Remove C87, C88, D23.Cut the trace to the left of the plus lane as shown. This is the large circuit board next to the battery compartment.At the middle of the board you find two square solder lands, you mount the lithium battery (CR2032 or larger), or battery holder, here. Note that those in the front are shorter than the rest.Locate the processor board.
Korg poly 800 internal battery mod#
After the mod the patches will be kept at all times.However, beware that the firmware of the MK-1 has a bug which cause a total crash with memory loss when hooked up to certain sequencers.If you have this problem, try to connect the Poly-800 after the sequencer is started.Open the Poly-800 by removing ALL screws at the bottom.
Korg poly 800 internal battery how to#
I had forgotten I had done this mod on the one I worked on.The Poly-800 didn't have any dedicated battery for keeping the patch memory.(The MK-2 and the EX-800 have backup battery as standard.) If you remove the power and C-cells at the same time the patches are lost.This modification shows how to add a dedicated backup battery. If you can make, store, and retrieve the patch later, the battery probably has some life to it (though it WILL fail). What I did was trimmed off one of the contact posts from the old dead battery and soldered it onto the holder post as an extension.Make sure the battery is truly dead before doing all this, though. The only caveat here is that the pins on the holder probably do not line up with the holes in the board. It is a CR2032, but the problem on the older models is that it is soldered to the board.You will need to go to Radio Shack (or the interwebz) and get a battery holder, solder THAT to the place where the battery comes out (being very careful to observe polarity), then you may change the battery as needed, now and in the future.
Korg poly 800 internal battery download#
You could just create one patch on it (this is what I did before the days of the interwebz where everything was a download away) and copy it over and over and over, then go back and modify the patches.As you program it you will probably find that the levels for the DCOs are both 0, resulting in no sound whatsoever.However, none of this will work if the battery is dead. 24dB filter, extensive MIDI control, 8 voices of polyphony and 64 patch memory slots. The Korg Poly-800 released in 1983 as a competitive sub-$1000 dollar.