When it came to producing out Korg Poly-800 sample collection we decided that we would avoid using the chord memory due to the fact that, using your sampler and sequencer, it is a simple task to duplicate the effect with our samples. The sound could be further thickened via the built in stereo chorus and a few tricks could be done with the chord memory function such as producing another note an octave down. The Poly-800 uses a basic form of additive synthesis in that each oscillator can produce sounds at several octaves at the same time and these can be mixed together to thicken the sound considerably. It is actually much farer to compare the Poly Six to the Juno range as they are similar except for their differing filters.
Of course the Juno's had a filter for each of its six voices which immediately puts it at an advantage but each synth produces its own unique sounds which cannot be reproduced on the other. The fact that sites such as compare this synth to the Juno range from Roland makes judging this synth even more difficult. In this regard this is where the Poly-800 cut most corners as it was capable of playing up to 8 notes at any one moment but the single filter had to be shared across all of these notes and such synthesisers are called "paraphonic". In the very early days of synthesisers players were usually happy to lay their hands on whatever they could as long as it produced a new sound and most synths were either monophonic or polyphonic.
In order to produce a polyphonic synth at that time it was (as it virtually always is) necessary to cut a few corners. Probably the main reason why people argue so much about how good (or bad) this synth is, is the fact that it was produced to a specific budget (of below $1,000) making polyphonic analogue synthesis available to the masses for the first time. The Korg Poly-800 is something of a "Marmite" synthesizer in that you either love it or you hate it and on sites such as you will find rather contradictory reviews of this highly affordable polyphonic synthesiser the funniest of which is the site review itself which states that, in many ways, the poly-800 is better than the Roland Juno synths without explaining how. Some are sought because of their rareness (such as the PS3300) and some for the wonderful sounds they can produce, such as the MS-10. Korg have, over the decades, manufactured a number of highly collectable synthesisers.
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