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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Re: Factory presets

From: "JH." <jhaible@...>
Date: 2007-08-09

>Well if anyone came near my Cs80 and started trying to change any of the
>Brass presets, id have no choice but to club them to death... :)

Yeah - I don't think the presets are that bad, either. :)
I ∗used∗ to think so, until I noticed it was a problem of transposing on my
CS-50: The presets obviously have been created for the NORMAL setting, and I
mostly play 1 OCT DOWN.
Changed a lot of resistors on the preset boards before I noticed that.

Modification isn't that difficult in ∗theory∗ - each parameter value is just
one resistor value.
In ∗practice∗, the board layout is very un-intuitive for finding the right
resistor, and some presets don't have all parameres set anyway, which makes
it a major pain in th e a∗∗ to set a pulse width setting when the original
preset has only used the saw waveform ...

Presets are made for treatment with an FX chain - a guitar doesn't sound too
exciting without amp and FX either.

JH.