People seem to love hating on the Poly 800, but it really suits the kind of music I am into making lately. It's ideal for low fi muted sound collages. It has a filter that can move your furniture around the room too.

I could go on and on about how the things people hate about it are the things that make it work within my application of the synth. Also good as a poly and midi eurorack source.

Sadly, my Korg Poly 800 synthesizer is failing. This is likely due to a battery issue. In the olden times they would solder in a little battery for the memory bank. So I knew what the issue was. I expected I'd be doing some soldering , but I like it so much I had gotten another one cheap with a hard case.

When I snagged my back-up machine and plugged it in, the entire memory bank was blank.

Then I opened the back-up unit. I was perplexed because I couldn't see a battery anywhere. Hit Youtube and watched the first video that popped up.…