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it was one of the first, that had FX in it (as the poly800 and dss1 sampler it has a delay inside! - 512ms max), 8 voices (the smaller version dw6000 had 6 voices), 2 DCOs, analog filters (standard lpf). it has 64 patches and there has been an extension for splitting and layering sounds, anyway:
normally the dw 8000 is in poly mode only. has velocity response. 2 special eg: ADBSSR envelopes! but dw6000 and dw8000 have analogue filters! the microkorg & ms2000 are of course VA / digital! - back to DW arpeggiator on board, too! one lfo (called mg (modulation generator) on korg synths). released in 1985. btw: the original dw series had 16 dwgs waves, the ms2000 / MS2000R and microkorg got lots more! btw: if you turn the dwgs knob you can get a nice "wavetable-like" sound scan. the microkorg/ms2000 (same engine) also allow symmetry of all waveforms (saw etc..) with pulse it is called PWM ;) there is also the fm mode, it does not allow all waveforms, so you can have sine and the basic waveforms for fm. still cool for a lot of sounds.
also able to ringmod and sync the oscs or both!.. 4 mod routings allow to change parameters by velocity. the real cool thing is the "arpeggiator" (more than that), where you can set every of the 8 (16 on the ms2000) "steps" like the roland TR drum machines. the number of waveforms are different.

this is a typical mid 80ies synth: also available as expander ex8000. DW-8000 had some spectra / waveforms that come a bit closer to the original "instrument" that was intended to be emulated. the ms2000 and the microkorg re-introduced those so called DWGS waves / waveforms into korgs newer VA (virtual analog) sound engine. the DW-8000


image: thanks to www.perishinlight.de

note ( DW8000 ): there was a nice expansion to the dw8000's midi and keyboard capabilities..
http://www.musitronics.de/html/dw8000_ex.html
it's basically adding split modes and "2x multitimbrality" features and master key stuff (local off) and a random waveform (DWGS wave) and more memory..

(D) für den DW8000 gibt es eine kleine erweiterung für splitten des keyboards /damit quasi 2fache multitimbralität) und eine random wellenform, mehr speicher und local off ,damit man den dw auch als masterkeyboard nutzen kann..

DW8000 rack: ex8000
DW6000 rack?: not available

ex800: thats the poly800 in a box (not 19")

the korg mono/poly is a 4 VCO synth with crossmod (between 2 VCOs) and sync. quite a good bass synth but the env generator is not the fastest on earth.. it was able to be played as a 4 voice polysynth but with one filter only. as the new vermona per4mer (see vermona on this page!) has a similar philosophy but with 4 real synth sections. so the monopoly was used as a faaat bass synth or late "minimoog" competitor (well, it never reached that sound.. but was very interesting)..

SPEEDING UP THE ENVELOPES:
it's been said that korg seemed to have used the wrong pots: they have linear potentiometers inside, if you replace them by exponential ones the ENVs will be much faster!

find some details of the Mono/Poly here (just click the pics to enlarge them)

below: thats, how you can mod the MonoPoly if you don't care about "respect" to design ;) no keyboard.

monopoly

The Poly 800 II has an extra digital Delay. A rack version is available as EX800. Some poly800 have a nice modification to tweak cutoff and resonance. There are some Poly 800 and Poly800II with inverted keyboard out there.. There is a Sine Wave driven LFO aboard, too.. All versions have a simple 256step Sequencer an board but the note length can not be set.. so it is quite limited.. "nice to have" no more..

later a Poly61M with midi and a midi retrofit kit was released but quite simple implementation - VERY SIMPLE!!

click some pics to find a larger version of the images..

KORG Poly61 ,


nice arpeggiator. sort of digital polysix but no ensemble or chorus effect.

enlarge Poly-61 to see the parameters..