Full Bucket Music has released Fury-800 v2.0.1

[Larry Shelby]

a simulation of the KORG Poly-800 for Windows and Mac.

Some new features: Poly-800 MODE for Poly-800 compatibility, Bucket MODE for backwards compatibility, SysEx data import.

For those who visit the dev's site for the first time: you will find there a lot of good free synth and effect plugins.

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/fury800.html

[Vernon Barnes]

One of the better free VSTi developers IMHO.

I have a real Poly 800 but it's a bit poorly so having the emulation is nice and I will be updating tomorrow.

The VSTi is a nightmare to program, just like the real thing.

[user 905133]

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. . . You can import a Poly-800/EX-800/Poly-800 Mark II tape dump (WAV) or MIDI System Exclusive (SYX) data file by clicking “Load SysEx/Tape...” in the Options Menu . . . 

@Vernon Barnes Just stumbled onto the Fury-800. Have you tried importing either a tape dump or a syx file, and if so, how did it go?  If it works, I might want to find some of my old EX-800 cassette data dumps (or syx dumps, if I did them).  Thx.  

[Vernon Barnes]

I have not tried it. I do not have any to try. 

[user 905133]

      

Works from 25 year old *.syx files dumped to *.wrk files.  I will just assume that the older tape dumps work, too (unless I find that I saved a *.wav file).  Patches sound different than what I remember, but everything else does, too.  A very handy replacement for the real thing hardware!!!

Edited December 8, 2020 by User 905133
(1) to add "very"; (2) to change "real thing" to "hardware."