And he got it for free, since I felt I could not demand any money due to my n00bishness. In the end the guy who owned the synth was very pleased: “It sounds like a new instrument!”, he said. Description The KORG i-30 Series K-PA-SL-01 Style Library is provided via Download or on USB Stick. Well, that is something I will be extra careful with next time. Korg PA4X PA1000 PA700 PA3X PA900 PA600 PA2X PA800 PA1X all PAs & EK-50 EK-50L XE20 XE20SP i3 (2020)- 11200 Styles quantity. It all went well in the end, but I feel it could have been much better, cosmetically. Placing the holes was one thing - at first I drilled two holes too close to each other, which I noticed when trying to place the two pots underneath and they just bumped into each other. Need to power your Korg Synth Poly-800 This high-quality, safety-certified 9V power adaptor manufactured by myVolts is 100 compatible with your Korg Synth. The part where I had to drill in the case was the most difficult, mostly due to lack of experience. Meaty, big-sounding synth, great for chords. Some, like the Korg Poly-800, will need an audio file. As with saving patches, installation differs between machines. Removing the battery likely wiped all the patches from the memory. Don’t freak out if no sounds come out of your synth when you first power it on. An outstanding synthesizer sound with a great acid, slow resonant filter sweep effect. The final thing to do is re-install the patches. Well programmed to include the noisy attack portion.
Removing components from the PCB and then adding wires to the old holes required a certain amount of… gentle violence, but it went well in the end. This is one of the Poly-800s signature sounds. You have to think more about where you place the parts, where your wires should go, etc. The soldering was not that hard, but I guess one should be aware of the fact that it is quite different than soldering parts on a brand new PCB.
Perhaps some DIY n00b like myself will find this thread useful:
I thought I would just sum up my experiences, having completed the mod in May.