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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Yamaha reface?

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Forr=F3?= <danforcz@...>
Date: 2015-07-08

Yes, but lot of features are missing, to me it's just incomparable, it's just a toy. Exactly that important performing aspect was omitted, all that what makes a difference between musical instrument and a toy - range of the keyboard, polyphonic aftertouch and lot of other... Here even the right hands can't do much :-)

But of course there's a possibility of MIDI control, let's wait for machine's detailed MIDI implementation and see if it's only preset toy or if there's full RPN/NRPN and SysEx control... Maybe it can receive polyphonic aftertouch like many other digital Yamaha synthesizers.

Daniel Forro


On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Tommy Priakos tpriakos@... [yamahacs80] wrote:


I am going to reserve judgment on these products. Back when I first played a (brand new) CS-80 at a music store I had no idea of its potential until I heard UK's Eddie Jobson and Vangelis using it on their albums.  The reface CS sounded like it has promise - in the right hands.