Korg Mono-Poly

Description : Monophonic 4 oscillator analog synthesizer

Production period : 1981 - 1984

Numbers made : 10 000

Used by : Aurora, Chemical Brothers, Vince Clark, Geoff Downes, Depeche Mode, Electronic Dream Planet, Keith Emerson, Tim Simenon of Bomb the Bass, Tangerine Dream

Keys : 44

Weight : 12 kg

Description :

" It´s like four crappy synths in one " - Vince Clark.

This is one of my favorite synths in the studio. It has got a real gritty sound that almost has a punk feel to it. It sounds great trough small speakers and distortion pedals. When Änglagård started playing all the lead synth lines were played on a mono/poly and I thought it was the most magical machines around with all the blinkings, bleepings and all. Later on a when I borroughed one from Tord for Pineforests Watergarden demos it turned up almost in every song mostly the arpeggiator. At the same time we borroughed a polysix which didn´t get used except for one note on the beginning of Shangri-la.

Now that I have gotten my hands on one for myself I am very pleased and it actually gets a lot of usage. I I have used it with both Devi and Kit Le Fever. I have also used it quite a lot with the Korg rythm 55 drum machine syncing it to the arpeggiator.

Monopoly tweaking