Korg Poly 800

The Poly 800 is produced in the 1980s synthesizer manufacturer Korg. He was the first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer, which was sold for less than U.S. $ 1,000 and 8 digitally controlled (and thus voting stable ) analog oscillators having all running on a single filter, which is why the Poly 800 is particularly suitable for filter modifications and in the circuit bending scene is quite popular. The polyphony is similar to the Korg Monopoly switchable between 8 -fold with 1 oscillator and 4 -fold with 2 separately adjustable oscillators. Envelopes and LFOs (MG) ​​are digitally generated by the CPU. The oscillators and filters, however, are analog and are only to be digitally controlled by the CPU.

The equipment includes two break points for a belt, allowing the device to be reassigned as a guitar ( Keytar ); Battery operation is possible. A version with color- inverted keyboard was also available.

There were 1984 to 1987 about 100,000 copies of the Poly 800 and the improved successor version Poly 800 - II produced was added a digital delay. As an expander which it was sold under the name EX 800. The model was developed by a number of important representatives of electronic music used, including Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Human League, Orbital, Tangerine Dream, Rob Hubbard and Jimi Tenor.