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Subject: what breaks? - Re: [yamahacs80] Re: A new Poly aftertouch controller??!?!?!!

From: "georgesporopat" <jbond007@...>
Date: 2007-10-02

An Origin? Would be more close to the real CS than the VST version?
There are some signature sounds on the real CS I never could get
on the VST version. (as guitar 1+Bass for example).

--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, David Rogoff <david@...> wrote:
>
> georgesporopat wrote:
> > Are you dreaming the same as me?
> > A CS80R (rack, a big one) ? Everything with discrete components?
> > Midi, and the VAX77? hehe!!
> >
> It may be blasphemy, but I'd take an Origin over a 100-lb analog
rack.
> And, the DSP and VSTs are getting better all the time and the
computers
> are getting faster and cheaper. Within five, or ten years at the
most, I
> think it's going to be hard to justify analog hardware, even for
most of
> us fanatics.
> > Then a very peacefull feeling of freedom, without any
> > IG series inside? ;-).
> I agree that someday this will be needed. However, at least on the
five CS80s + CS60 I've worked on, I haven't seen any Yamaha parts go
bad. All the failures I've seen were either 4xxx CMOS or generic op-
amps.
>
>
> What have other people seen?
>
> David
>