Korg Poly 800 Battery replacement and factory reload. 

I will drive over to DFW with my Korg Kronos just to do this if he would do it.

up vote from me, no bias

David lives in DFW.

Make him review the MicroKORG

lol i can image him having the moog... that'd be awesome.

10 years and 1 day later: "I cannot find the strap holders."

@@ItsDoctorAmatic So, is the total time 20 years and 1 day, or...

Strap on

@@oil1252 Good man.

@@ItsDoctorAmatic Yeah, if you remove such things, fix them inside the case with some cello tape. In that case they'll always stay with the keyboard.

It's actually an analog synth.

@@dicey2988 yeah, with DCO’s. True story.

Yeah, I thought the UFO sound was really neat myself...

Sounded like something out of classic Dr. Who.

WHY, oh WHY didn't he save the settings to tape???

@Arne I wondered that as well.

Can you explain the packing peanuts, too? I'm really just curious. He might be able to re-program that saucers instrument back in? EDIT: Now that I think about it, he could theoretically re-program it back in the same way he did with the factory defaults, just using the raw audio off of Audacity (which is what I think that program on his laptop is).

Amy Carter exactly

I oddly feel the same satisfaction from the clicks of a well-used and well-maintained typewriter (this is why I really love the intro to 'Black Tambourine' as performed by Beck - actually the whole song is an ASMR thing with the simple bass line and technical but droppy drums not to mention the soft vocals).

Amy Carter Old technology is so satisfying.

this, exactly this. weirdly satisfying.

Interesting that it was Korg that in the past few years released both the MS-20Kit and MS-20MKit, full sized analog synths that you assemble yourself just down to plug level (no soldering required). I owned and built both, a fantastic synth nerd experience :)

He definitely is. He's a thousand times better with a Casio than I am... Then again, he's got more experience than me, so...

@ Dark Winter: Just like women.... Fishing for compliments. I HATE that! Drawing artists do the same shit. Like "My stuff sucks and i need to practice a lot more" while their drawings already ARE fantastic >_

Wait...are you trying to be funny? Please try again without the sweeping generalizations. Ending on a compliment does not offset the insults.

@KRAFTWERK2K6 He could be fishing for compliments, but I *really* doubt it. Many artists are perfectionists (I should know), so if their work isn't "best thing since sliced bread" level it must suck. Also, 8bit is a decent keyboardist, but he's certainly no virtuoso. I feel that's where he was getting at. :)

I agree.

By George, I believe it is!

BLASPHEMY!!!

...what heresy are you spewing?!

The Obsolete Geek When are you going to release new videos? I miss them :(

I see that you are not dead :3

simontay1984 I'm not sure why, but I've been using this technique for years and the plastic is always dry to the touch the next day (nothing gets on the hands). Looks like new again, and lasts too.

@@DanDuskin if I had to guess, the polish fills the pits and holes that make a surface look dull.

I just feel the same way and in the same time thinking about my old Yamaha DX-7 and Korg Vocoder VC-10 ;-) and knowing both of them will love very much this kind of soft treatment... and how satisfying it would be to repair my own stuff in this highly relaxing way. Or just only for making my old synthesizers dust-free again... would already be very great! Yes, indeed : it feels very comfortable to see someone doing this in a professional 'easy'-looking way. I appreciate this comment so much!!!

True!!

If I ever buy one of those and it has custom sounds, that's exactly what I'd do.

I was just thinking that myself. If you can save and load, why not save it into a file on his Mac? That way he saves anything that wasn't Factory so he can reload either or whenever he wanted to.

@@CoolSteve08 its not hard to create the patches. those cheap synths really had a limited number of unique sounds. I would keep these type of boards for maybe a year then you get bored with them. They arent like true analog boards which are about three times as expensive.

¡PLOP!

I have a dx27 (shit little brother I think) I'd love to see what he can get out of a real synth. It needs his nerd flair ;)

dwarf365 Send it to him

dwarf365 send it to him

dwarf365 send him

Synthmania has done a series of videos showcasing all the factory banks of the DX7.

I know, right? What are the things that tickles me about him is his absolute and unabashed modesty! Do you enjoy this guy's reviews as much as I do? I hope so!

That synth is similar to the Juno and polysix in many ways. Both being the defacto sounds of many 80's movies.

Vangelis is known to have used one, not sure if it was in the Blade Runner OST or not though.

Blade Runner came out in 1982. So, no. Vangelis did not use a Poly800 for this soundtrack. It was the Yamaha CS80 that he used intensively.

KRAFTWERK2K6 The CS80 is my absolute favorite synth ever. Blade Runner, The Shining, Doctor Who, and about 100 others..

​@@5roundsrapid263 _Shining_ was Polymoog and Moog Modular.

poly 61 is better anyways.

Buy a DW-8000, it has the joystick and is waaaay better.

Corncob Johnson real That blows dude, I got mine on eBay for $350, they seem to go for anywhere from $250 to $500 so if you're patient you should be able to find a good deal on one. I have mine paired up with a Roland JX-3P, they make beautiful music!

@ Corncob Johnson real: They were expensive already before this video.

Corncob Johnson real I have a half dozen, maybe it's time to unload

soviut I like the 14:18 moment too

Its called troubled hearts by anders enger

so... maybe it just needs the factory patches reloaded?

did you ever fix it?

Good eye. It might just be a trick of the lens but yeah, one of those looks ready to blow.

Yes, it does look like it's bulging.

Yes it definetly is bulging. He should put in a new one.

One of the last things you want going bad in any machine...

If it ain't broke don't fix it!

There was a way to transfer the information, there was some software I saw recently, but they're gone now from his.

@@helgenx It would have been too much of a quick fix.

haha I bought a PSS-470 after watching the video on How video game music works :)

Most of the keyboards he shows here are hard to find in Brazil... I'm starting with the PSR-6 he listed on the soundblaster video description, and if I can play something, then invest more on finding an upper model, like these casio on his wall, or a rarer Yamaha like yours...

I bought a psr-32 after watching his video on it.

Greetings from Brazil! I'm gonna reply in English so everyone can understand it. João, most of these keyboards aren't rare here in Brazil if you know where to look. In fact, I have the vast majority of the keyboards shown in this channel and only the Yamaha MK-100 caused me some headaches when I was searching for it, as that one is scarce around here. The others, not so much. Now, what IS a problem in Brazil are the prices: our sellers are charging at least three times the price of most of these toy instruments with arguments of "rarity" and "vintage instrument". Take the Casio SK-1, for instance: it is getting more popular between lo-fi/alternative artists out there because it is a cheap toy sampler capable of insteresting things in the right hands, but here in Brazil - HEY! - it suddenly is a "rare vintage sampler used by this and that artist" which costs like 3 or 4 times the price asked everywhere else. Same for the Casio VL-1, which is, like what, the most sold Casio keyboard ever? And let's not even start with this Korg Poly-800, which is a very nice 8-note polyphony analogue synth, but not worth the price of a huge, professional synth as they're charging in our country. So: keep your eyes open, eventually you'll own most of the keyboards shown here. Just please know the value of your money - these are beautiful toy/home instruments, but not worth as much as most of the prices you'll find in Brazil! Good luck! PS.: There were at least five or six PSS-470s (the keyboard mentioned by lilmattere) on OLX in the last six months. It's a common keyboard, and a very nice one. Once again: just be aware of how much you pay for it - there's a guy asking for R$650 or so on Mercado Livre for one, when it actually should cost R$250 or R$300 (or even less, to be honest). Not even a copy with the original box and manual should cost R$650. A guy sold a Yamaha DX-7 the other day for R$700, so why a toy/home keyboard should cost about the same is beyond me.

What a grateful surprise! I thought I was the only braziian who watch this channel.

He didn't care

he's too rock n roll for that

Wow a C.G.I. ANIMATION IS HERE

How would you know, @@dizzydaisy909?

@@HelloKittyFanMan. lucky guess?

FINALLY

HOW DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TOP !) COMMENT ON EVERY DAMN VIDEO?!?! WHO TF ARE YOU!!??!

You know I couldn't tell the difference.

Laurin O. Becuz

Becuz

Except for a physical keyboard this has nothing to do with keyboards. It's a pure synth.

This wasn't actually a keyboard, this was one of the first MIDI synthesisers back in 1983.

it was just a super cheap keyboard that korg sold to people who couldn't afford a real keyboard. I guess the idea was they'd buy this thing, get tired of its toy like qualities and limited features and trade up to something more expensive. Hammond did the same thing with their chord organs back in the 50s.

its not a keyboard its a synth, and i cant see any toy like qualities ;-;

$800 for a toy???

Ikr

Man, you don't wanna know what an Emu Emulator II went for!

That was actually pretty cheap in 1983, its competition the Juno 60 costed 4k in 2020 dollers, and the Jupiter 8 costed 15k!

well... at least in comparison to the things I am normally opening up. It's all relative.

@@8BitKeys I have to agree with you on this one. When you opened it up I was amazed about how well built it was. I still have mine that I got in 1984 - I never dared to open it...

That’s the dumbest reply I can think of

A friend of mine that lives in town has a DX7 that is available to me anytime I want to borrow it.. but I just don't feel like I could do it justice.

8-Bit Keys There are people that have had DX7's for 30 years and have yet to figure them out

Please do a DX-7, I have one and I l'd love to hear your perspective on it. I also recently sold my Poly-800, didn't like it very much - it was too "toyish" for my liking :(

Would love a DX7 review/ mini tutorial!

still want one 25 years later😁👍

Because Hollywood! :)

c6amp do we know that saucers actually exist tbh?