ribbon is pitch only
matrix wrote:
> What's interesting is the CS60 has a bit of this as well. When I
> first got it I was a little dissapointed. It seemed a little
> lackluster, until... I figured out how to play it. It comes alive
> when you learn how to use the aftertouch and modulations. It's subtle
> but amazing. I kept thinking of it like a violin; it sound like crap
> if you just pick up a bow and try to play it without "playing it
> right." But when you do play it, wow! It's still rather bizarre to
> me. With a synth I expect that I can just press keys and be done.
> Not with the CS60. I can't imagine what a CS80 would be like with
> poly aftertouch and more synthesis power. Another amzing synth as
> fars as keyboard control goes is the Roads Chroma.
>
> BTW, with the CS60 the ribbon controller only controls pitch. Is this
> also the case with the CS80 or can you have it mod other things like
> aftertouch.
>
> -matrix
> http://www.matrixsynth.com/blog
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Rogoff
> To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] What it is about the CS80
>
>
> Wavecomputer360 wrote:
> > Hi Tim, hi Laurie,
> >
> > I think you hit the nail on the head... it´s the performance of
> the
> > instrument, the way controls are laid out and the way the machine
> responds
> > to you as a player which makes the CS80 stand out. And this is why
> all
> > virtual emulations are pointless as the sum of it all makes it the
>
> > instrument it is, not only the sound generation (which is rather
> simple,
> > compared with, say, and Oberheim Xpander and such). Like Peter
> Forrest once
> > said, other polysynths would wipe the floor with the CS80 when it
> comes to
> > modulation routings and such but the CS80 would blow them all away
> when it
> > comes to richness of sound and sheer performance power.
> >
> Most definitely! Once again, the great things about the CS-80, for
> me,
> are the feel and poly-aftertouch of the keyboard, the ribbon
> (including
> being able to sweep down to D.C.), the choice of sustain I & II (for
>
> nice mono/sustained sounds on a poly-synth), the ring modulator, and
>
> having all the performance knobs. I like the sound, but to me it's
> not
> the big deal. Now, give me an Oberheim 8-voice SEM box controlled
> from
> a CS-80. That instrument could caress like a feather or kill a
> tyrannosaurus from a mile away...
>
> As I've mentioned, I picked up a MIDIBoard and a Roland A-50 a while
> ago
> to try and have a poly-aftertouch MIDI controller, but I'm still
> working
> on restoring the A-50. How do we get Edirol (=Roland, who made the
> A-50
> and A-80) or M-Audio to add this? Their MIDI/USB keyboards are
> getting
> nicer all the time with more programmable knobs and sliders. How do
> we
> convince them that there's a market (other than a few dozen of us
> here)?
>
> David
>
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