KORG POLY 800 MKII

fairydust · Post by **fairydust** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:51 pm

Hi

I have a korg poly 800 mkII but the sounds have dissappeared. What sort of cable would I need to connect the keyboard to my computer to download the relevant patches. If you also have any info as to how I would go about transferring the patches that would be great as I'm not very well up on the technical side

Thank you

Mk2 NL · Post by **Mk2 NL** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:48 am

The MKII has Midi Sysex support so you could use that route but this requires a Midi interface and cable.

Another way is via the cassete interface. Google and download the factory patches in audio tape format, hook up the Poly-800 cassette IN port to the output pf your PC soundcard and follow the loading procedure.

note: cassette interface loading can be fiddly and prone to errors... you may have take a few tries to find the correct playback level etc.

Mk2 NL · Post by **Mk2 NL** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:49 am

Another thing: if you've lost your patches, the onboard battery is probably dead or about to expire. You need to replace it or it could start to leak and damage your synth.

fairydust · Post by **fairydust** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 6:20 pm

Hi and thank you very much for your reply. If I went down the midi route with sysex what do I do when I put the cable in. Would you be able to let me know

regards

Lorraine

Weirdofromouterspace · Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:19 am

fairydust wrote:If I went down the midi route with sysex what do I do when I put the cable in.

First of all - my Poly-800 is mk I and non-sysex-MIDI (there seems to be a modification available which adds sysex, but I don't have that). My personal sysex experience is thus based on the 2 Yamahas in my gear list.

However, the procedure below - which worked easily and completely satisfactory for my Yamahas - should be similar with your Poly-800 mk II:

- Have a freeware MIDI tool such as MidiOx installed on your computer
- Connect the synth to your computer using a USB to MIDI adapter (I use this one).
- Make sure the synth is ready to receive sysex data, which might require setting some write protection to OFF
- Send the sysex data using the above mentioned software. That's it.

fairydust · Post by **fairydust** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:40 pm

Thank you very much for your response, I will give it a try

regards

Lorraine