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Subject: Re: Re: [yamahacs80] Re: Having a problem with my CS80

From: kirkbyte@...
Date: 2011-05-28

Hey Mike,

Are you able to describe the fix/modification in general terms?


Andrew K


> Max Fazio <faxiomas@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike
> Can you post those files from the CS60 you talked about and get an
> insight about the KAS' bug? Myself likes the effect a lot...
> M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike
> To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:53 AM
> Subject: [yamahacs80] Re: Having a problem with my CS80
>
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> I can fix the problem if you live in Chicago or want to ship it to
> me:) Unfortunately, the engineers made an error when they designed the
> KAS and SH boards. Fortunately, it can be corrected. My fix removes
> about half of the double triggering too.
>
> Here's how I illustrate the bug to my customers: Play a C chord on the
> 8' footing in your right hand with two C's an octave apart in the left
> hand on C1 & C2. Remove your right hand and take your pinky off C1. The
> C under your thumb should be waaay off now. Now play a B flat1 with your
> index finger without removing your thumnb on C2 and listen to C2 jump
> up! The double triggering issue makes the problem more apparent. Long
> sustain in sustain I makes it more apparent too.
>
> A lot of folks don't even notice because the bass notes are so
> distorted in machines that haven't been tuned or serviced with new caps.
>
> In my opinion, this bug is one of the reasons that people think the CS
> series goes out of tune so much and has a bad reputation!
>
> If anybody cares, I'll post an audio file of a CS-60 that I'm about to
> fix up and a CS-80 that I just fixed the bug on.
>
> -Mike
>
> --- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "Max Fazio" <faxiomas@...> wrote:
> >
> > It's part'n'parcel of the lovely 80.... ;-)
> >
> > M
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Tommy Priakos
> > To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 12:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Re: Having a problem with my CS80
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone had a horrendous change in pitch in one of the oscilators
> while playing chords with the sustain going? The slider/fader can be as
> little as a quarter of the way up on the sustain and I get these off-key
> drifts that make you cringe.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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