[sdiy] OT: What happened to Yamaha?...

[Steff]

On 26 April 2012 08:24, Oakley Sound <oakleylist at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> This from the company that gave us the CS-80. Faceless workstations.
>
> I understand where you're coming from. But, if you look at the old Yamahas
> they were preset machines, even the CS-80. Oboes, flutes, pianos and so on.

I've always taken it that there's a division of responsibility going
on here - Yamaha do fairly trad musical instruments* (they make very
fine pianos for example) but own a large stake in Korg, who have
always done the more outré electronics (and continue to do so - see
the Monotron, with its publish circuit diagrams and
carefully-marked-for-modding PCB). Seems perfectly reasonable to me, I
just keep a closer eye on Korg than I do Yamaha.

*with occasional tentative forays into awesomeness - I love my RS7000
for example - it's me-too Akai MPC but done very well indeed.

S