The Korg Polysix (PS-6) is a six-voice programmable polyphonic analog synthesiser released by Korg in 1981 and often referred to as "The poor mans Prophet" at the time because the PolySix was the first programable Polysynth that broke the 2000US$ and £1000 GBP barrier making it extremely affordable, and it sold in very large numbers as a consequence!
The synthesiser's main features are six-voice polyphony (with unison and chord memory voice assignment modes), 32 memory slots for patches and cassette port for backing up patches, and an arpeggiator.
At the time of its release, the Polysix, along with the contemporary Roland Juno-6, was one of the first affordably priced polyphonic analog synthesisers. It cost about twice as much as the competing Juno-6 but had more features. It also had on-board patch storage and backup which the cheaper Juno lacked until the upgraded Juno-60 model. Korg developed the Polysix with an eye on the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, trying to provide some of the features found on the more expensive synth in a compact, reliable and much cheaper design.
While not as powerful, it used SSM2044 4-pole voltage-controlled filters, giving the Polysix a warm, rounded, and organic sound. Although the Polysix only had one oscillator per voice, it also featured built in chorus, phaser, and 'ensemble' effects (using a 'bucket brigade' analog delay line design), to provide a fuller sound. You could also stack all 6 oscillators into a mono mode making huge lead sounds.
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