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Average rating:
4.2 out of 5
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Ironically, I sold my Polaris follwoing the break up of an 80's band that toured for a few years. As soon as I introduced it the sound man immediately commented on the quality of it's timbres. But those were the days of the DX7 and the advent of the Emulator and as I moved into a differnt area, it was scuttled. Big mistake. Now 15 years later I have my hands on another one and I will never let it go. It's all about sound. I didn't know back then what I know now. It doesn't replace the rest of the tools, but it fills a sonic void that nothing else can.
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sorry i forgot the rating ... the poor switch design choice drops my 5 to a 3
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I was given a semi-functional polaris a year ago . The sopunds were incredible ,big,fat, and this amazing funky stevie wonder sound that was my fave. but the membrane swithes were partially gone . {what everyone complains about} so i had the great idea of bringing in to the local fender dealer for repair. Big mistake... In five minutes he rendered it totally unplayable and now it has been sent to another shop and then forewarded to another and now 6 months later I dont have it and actually dont even know where it is myself but I keep hearing they will get back to me ... end of story
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I came across a Polaris in a music shop a few years ago - old, and not functionaing well at all. Some of the front panel buttons were dead so the synth couldn't really be programmed, however it was possible to recall the patches. I spent some time going through all the sounds, and in the process came across the most wonderful string sound I have ever heard. All I know is that this string sound was utterly wonderful. I was recording an album at the time, and convinced the store manager to let me drag up an ADAT player, borrow a corner of the store and record the strings into my track, a 19 minute prog rock epic!!
It was a real battle as the synth was dying by the hour - every few hours another function would go. It was no longer able to be tuned from the front panel, and also emitted some annoying buzzes from time to time. I eventually got it into tune by holding the pitch bend lever at just the right position with just the right sized bit of wood, and managed to get a take without any buzzes coming through.
Well, the strings sound wonderful. They are the silkiest, smoothest, glossiest analogue strings I have ever heard and they come in like a cool drink of water, or a breath of fresh, cool air. I also have an OBXa, Polysix and Jupiter 6 - yet on this occassion I left them all at home and went in and battled with a broken Polaris because the strings were absolutely superior and I just had to have them. There was also a monstorous synth bass patch on the Polaris which was beautiful - sounded really, really old school and was deep, dark and rich.
The manager offered me the Polaris for a reasonable price. However I was about to move overseas, and simply did not have any money to spare. A few months later, I contacted him and enquired about the synth, but alas it was gone. Someone had bought it, and I can only assume it would have been someone who has the interest and patience to take care of a such a nice instrument. If I ever find one of these machines again, I will buy it immediately.
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The Polaris is a monster sounding synth,thought it would be simular to the Chroma so I bought one, but these are poles apart,the chroma is intelligent and would happily have tea with your girlfriends folks the polaris would eat their poodle the moment they went out the room, anyway the polaris is a great synth probably not suitable for people who want all those synthi polite background sounds or a band doing 80's covers but for analogue power it can be brutal,if only they'd put osc.balance or another lfo or switchable filter type instead of all those Pedal options or the piddley seq,it would have been one of the greatest polys ever
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