{"id":20693,"date":"2020-06-03T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=20693"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:54:42","slug":"korgs-classic-poly-800-synth-is-now-available-as-a-free-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/korgs-classic-poly-800-synth-is-now-available-as-a-free-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Korg’s classic Poly-800 synth is now available as a free plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who doesn’t love a classic synth, especially when you can download its sound for free and instantly use it in your music.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n

Back in the 80’s Korg launched an oft-forgotten, but much-loved at the time, synth called the Poly-800. It was, of course, a polyphonic synth with 8 voices released as Korg’s response to the popularity of Roland’s Juno-106. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time it was one of the trailblazing instruments to give MIDI to the masses and with in-built memory and 50 editable parameters it was a huge source of variety and creative possibility for creators at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the ever-reliable V<\/a>intage Synth website<\/a> on some of its features that made it so great:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the Juno, the Poly-800 had one DCO per voice, although it did feature a Double mode in which the oscillators could be stacked up for a fuller sound and only four voices of polyphony. The analog filter is a 24dB\/oct low-pass which is shared by all voices (the Juno has separate filter chips for each voice). <\/p>

There’s also a stereo chorus effect, chord memory, a simple built-in sequencer, three digital envelope generators (for the oscillators, the noise generator and the filter), and a funky joystick used to adjust the pitch, modulation and the filter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This new VST\/AU plugin version of the synth faithfully recreates that iconic synth, its sound and its control in a free offering that you can download right now on Full Bucket Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fury-800<\/em> is a software instrument for Microsoft Windows (VST) and Apple macOS (VST\/AU) simulating the KORG Poly-800<\/em> polyphonic synthesizer from 1983. It is written in native C++ code for high performance even on “lighter” systems. Main features are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n