David
Many many thanks for the great company and sharing
your tuning insights with us - I'll host the next CS80
tuning party at my studio! That was great fun. Maybe
there are other LA-area CS80 members interested if we
do another one?
[I'll try not to hit the mod wheel on the midiboard
this time!!]
cheers
steve
--- David Rogoff <
david@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> Well, yesterday may have been the first time a bunch
> of people got
> together to learn to tune a CS80 since some training
> sessions at Yamaha
> thirty years ago!
>
> Scott (who's in this group, and whose CS80 I added
> the Kenton MIDI kit
> to), wanted me to clean up a few voices that had
> drifted a bit since I
> last tuned it (a little over two years ago). He
> figured we'd make it a
> party, and invited a couple of other CS80 owners,
> including Shawn from
> Analoghaven.com and Steve. It was a little crowded
> in Scott's studio
> loft, with the ton of gear he has (and the Obie
> 4-voice wasn't even
> there!), but we managed.
>
> It took a long time, partly from schmoozing, partly
> from letting
> everyone try tuning a voice card, and a lot from a
> D'oh! moment: Scott
> has the MIDI in of the CS80 hooked up to a Kurzweil
> MIDIBoard. It's a
> great setup for recording poly-aftertouch
> performances on his Mac and
> then controlling the CS80. However, the
> spring-loaded pitch and mod
> wheels of the MIDIBoard don't have a dead zone and
> don't always go back
> to zero. Apparently, during our pizza break after
> the first four voices,
> the wheels got hit, and the pitch-bend was slightly
> off for the next
> four sets of cards.
>
> In the end, it was all in tune. I think we also came
> up with a very nice
> and fast tuning procedure which I'll write up in the
> next few days.
> Looks like I may be putting in a couple more Kenton
> kits in the near
> future, too. Then we have to get all three MIDI-ed
> CS80s in one room,
> played from the MIDIBoard, plus Scott's Obie 4-voice
> via a Doepfer
> MIDI-CV interface. I think the sound will violate
> several international
> weapons treaties!
>
> David
>
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