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MF - Korg Pitchblack Poly - $35
- Thread starter kmf
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Ooo! Oooooo!!! Pick me! Pick me!!! 
I bought one of these a while back not realizing that it was a Poly - as I had never heard of the Poly model and didn't pay good enough attention to the title.
I subsequently also bought a regular PitchBlack. I still have and use them both.
The Poly works okay, but I definitely prefer the regular. The thing that bugs me with the Poly is that it has this feature where you can just strum all your strings at once and it displays indicators for all the strings at once, showing whether each one is in tune, sharp, or flat. I tune mine one string at a time. I suppose if I had 5 or 6 hands, that poly feature might be nice, but I guess I'm hand-challenged being as I only have 2. Anyway.... What happens that bugs me is, especially on a low B string, but on others, too, when I'm trying to tune one individual string, sometimes it will just flip from single-string mode to poly mode for a second or two, then switch back. Like it briefly thinks it's detecting me playing multiple strings at once. Even though I'm careful to mute any lower strings with my thumb and not touch any higher strings than the one I'm plucking.
It's not a huge deal. I would totally use the Poly even on a gig, if I lost my regular one or something. But, I would not buy another Poly. It's a feature that is of no use to me and is sometimes annoying.
I bought one of these a while back not realizing that it was a Poly - as I had never heard of the Poly model and didn't pay good enough attention to the title.
I subsequently also bought a regular PitchBlack. I still have and use them both.
The Poly works okay, but I definitely prefer the regular. The thing that bugs me with the Poly is that it has this feature where you can just strum all your strings at once and it displays indicators for all the strings at once, showing whether each one is in tune, sharp, or flat. I tune mine one string at a time. I suppose if I had 5 or 6 hands, that poly feature might be nice, but I guess I'm hand-challenged being as I only have 2. Anyway.... What happens that bugs me is, especially on a low B string, but on others, too, when I'm trying to tune one individual string, sometimes it will just flip from single-string mode to poly mode for a second or two, then switch back. Like it briefly thinks it's detecting me playing multiple strings at once. Even though I'm careful to mute any lower strings with my thumb and not touch any higher strings than the one I'm plucking.
It's not a huge deal. I would totally use the Poly even on a gig, if I lost my regular one or something. But, I would not buy another Poly. It's a feature that is of no use to me and is sometimes annoying.
