The Stereoping Synth Controller is a small studio tool which will be connected with your music synthesizer to allow editing its extensive world of parameters conveniently in realtime.

Instead of struggling with the synths built in cumbersome edit-interface, the Stereoping Synth Controller offers 16 dial pots and 3 lighted buttons to shape the sound interactively.

Incoming data from your sequencer (e.g.

Synth Controller with its own commands and sent to the synth all together.

You can tweak the knobs while your synth is fired by notes from the sequencer realtime.

Includes Manual. Power supply is not included, operates off standard 9v guitar effect pedal style wall wart.

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At the same time all knob turns are completely ignored - Learnt midi channel saved in internal memory.

But over time, the more I played with it, the more fun it became.

This was the first Korg ad to feature the Poly 800 - and Korg obviously wanted to hit the press with a loud synthesized bang.

And as far as Im concerned, they almost did everything right.

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The two-page version of the ad ran in that costly front-of-mag advertising space for a full six months - from February to July 84.

Then, they switched it up with a one-page version of the ad for the August and September 84 issues of Keyboard for a total ad run of eight months.

Then, after a bit of a break, Korg brought back the one-page version of the ad to page three of Keyboard from July to November 85.

Next, the layout it top-notch - well balanced, bright, with adequate white space.

The ad contains a nice centre-fold photo of the instrument with the name of the instrument in big fat letters.

Even the rather long winded tag-line is well placed and comes with a dash or wordplay.

Also, unlike a lot of introductory synthesizer ads that feature a HUGE photo and little or no ad-copy, Korg made sure to use those two pages of space to get a fair bit of synth info about the Poly 800 out to the masses.

They give details on the eight voices, 64 programs, 50 parameters of control, the polyphonic sequencer, noise generator, on-board chorus, 4-way joystick (awesome), MIDI and even the headphone jack.

If that isnt already enough of a feature buffet, Korg also let readers know that the keyboard also doubles as a 13-pound keytar Although, I do think they could have used a better photo of Chuck Leavell rockin out on his Poly 800.

Not only does the one hand position look a little uncomfortable, but Chuck himself looks like he is having an awful hard time trying to lift that thirteen-pounder.

Just sayin. And finally, to put the icing on the cake, Korg even advertises a price.

Normally, I would have suggested going with the ol psychological 799 price tag, but providing a number that lines up the price of the instrument with its name is another small win for Korg.

The only thing Korg seemed to have missed out on with this product launch was the lack of any promotion in the Spec Sheet section of Keyboard.

For real Poly 800 fans, the most awesome surprise about the instrument was still to come.

The month after this ad stopped running in 1984, the October 84 Spec Sheet section of Keyboard let readers know that they could also strut around on stage with a reverse color keyboard version of the synth: Korg Synthesizer Keyboard.

A limited edition of the Korg Poly 800 with a reverse color keyboard is now available.

All other features of the Poly 800 remain unchanged: 64 memory positions, 256-note sequencer, MIDI, and six-segment envelopes are standard.

Korg even had the balls to charge an extra 50 bucks for the privilege of sporting those reverse keys around your shoulders Worth every penny.

I happened to come across a reverse key version of the Poly 800 a long while back at my local music store.

So, ten minutes and 99 later, it was at home, strapped around my shoulders, and plugged in.

Quite honestly though, back then, it just didnt do it for me at first.