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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Yamaha reface?

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Forr=F3?= <danforcz@...>
Date: 2015-07-09

Manuals can be downloaded here:

http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.yamaha.com%2Fsearch%2Fproduct%2F%3Fsite%3Dau.yamaha.com%26language%3Den%26category_id1%3D16277%26category_id2%3D16381%26category_id3%3D%26product_id%3D2064630&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHfCYRc05T51uSfoB3WqB97vG6agw

For CS unfortunately no Poly Aftertouch, even not on receive side.

MIDI spec is not so bad, all parameters can be controlled by SysEx and even by standard MIDI controllers.

Daniel Forro


On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Daniel Forró danforcz@... [yamahacs80] wrote:

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.