Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

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You know what's interesting about this (for me, anyhow)? Listening to your favorite albums and knowing what synths they used, you can get a mental picture of what a given synth sounds like in typical situations (i.e. the sounds that make a synth famous lik a hard-synced P5 lead), but it's not as easy to picture the same synths being used in less typical applications. As a guy who previously owned a CS-80, I have a good feeling for what it sounds like generally, but I've never touched an ARP 2600. So, in my brain, a 2600 sounds like all the hard, pulsing, filter-chomping noises and analog percussion one hears on Depeche Mode records (and I love those sounds, BTW) and maybe a little Zawinul from Weather Report, but it never occured to me that Music For Airports could be a 2600. Of course I know it's possible and that's what makes ownership of a classic synth different than casual listening, but the 2600 wouldn't have been my 1st (or 4th or 5th) guess. Hopefully that makes sense...

I can't imagine someone making analog percussion loops out of a CS-80, for example, because a CS-80 is all Vangelis leads, lush pads and crazy ring mod, don't you know. ;-) Then again, I'm sure someobody's done it!
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It´s most definitely not Music for Airports as I´ve got this album. Eno used the ARP 2600 a lot on it ("lovely sound", as he said).

Stephen