Korg Poly 800 Patches

Filter resonance is set pretty high while the cutoff is modulated dramatically with an envelope. Starts out sounding like a percussive sound, then evolves into a pad-like sustain.

Creating a decent organ patch for the Poly 800 proved to be difficult. Here’s an attempt.

Wobbly chords. Adjust the LFO speed for faster or slower wobble

Fuzzy, simple bass patch with almost no filter or envelope. Super basic.

Pluckey percussive thing. Useful in place of marimba or even plucked bass.

Crisp, clean lead tone with limited harmonics providing focus. The sample shows off rapid arpeggios followed by simpler chords.

Nice, warm pad with slow build and long release

Nice, big attack with a little brassy flavor useful for chords, bass or leads

Clean synth bass with a closing envelope on the filter and a touch of resonance.

Excited and dark at the same time. Useful for punchy and sustained chords.

It transitions…with noise…from one part to another part of yer song.

Sonically dense and dark gradually expanding in tone to become bright. Makes for an interesting base to build upon.

Here’s yet another bass patch. Slightly different from others around here. Maybe this is the one you were looking for :)

Starts with a quick attack/decay for a percussive saw wave tone, gradually returning to full volume and quickly released.

Medium attack swooshes in the filter, then we cut off one oscillator quickly while letting the other linger on.

Almost a wah-like bass. Added resonance makes it talk.

Fuzz and whistle split an octave apart—great for parallel octaves or contrary motion.

Staccato chords. Try adding tempo-synced delay to liven it up.

From the synthlib podcast, this is the intro tone. A dark tone moving bright. Nice for sequences or bass.

Poly-800 hello world patch