We celebrated 800 episodes of SonicTalk yesterday, and not only did we roll out our new thumbnails for the special occasion - we also discussed 800-related gear. In the Sonicstate Discord, user DoctorSynth shared some Korg Poly 800 anecdotes, including the overlooked Poly-800 soft synth, which is completely free for Windows and Mac users! There are also a load of free preset banks on the download page, linked below.
He's got a brand new free plugin coming this summer and has newly implemented AAX support
Details below:
The Fury-800 is a software instrument for Microsoft Windows (VST2/VST3/CLAP) and Apple macOS (VST2/VST3/CLAP/AU) simulating the KORG Poly-800 polyphonic synthesizer from 1983. It is written in native C++ code for high performance even on "lighter" systems. Main features are:
- Two band-limited DCOs with individual envelope generators
- Two waveforms with additive harmonics (16', 8', 4', 2')
- Single (paraphonic) lowpass VCF and Noise
- On-board sequencer and Chord Memory
- Pseudo-stereo Chorus effect
- Tweaks:
- Up to 64 voices polyphony with Velocity
- "God Mode" for real polyphony
- Continuous parameter values and direct access
- Resizable user interface (not "N" version!)
- Supports MTS-ESP by ODDSound dynamic micro-tuning
- MIDI Learn – all parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC
- Plug-in supports Windows and macOS (32 bit and 64 bit)
Get the free download for Windows and Mac here https://www.fullbucket.de/music/fury800.html
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Developments for Korg's instrument have been slow but promising.