Here comes my wish list:
Auto Tune, most definitely.
Indicator LEDs on each voice board that show you which is active (if there´s
no auto tune possible and you have to tweak them in tune yourselves).
External stabilized and regulated power supply, built to military standards
(which might solve some temperature-based problems. If not, it makes the
instrument 20 kg lighter... which is a good thing if you´ve moved house as
often as I did in the past).
Less noisy built-in Chorus/Tremolo with an input level / output balance pot
rather than just on/off.
Ventilators (heavy duty computer fans, temperature-controlled).
Lighter enclosure 8)...
I wouldn´t want anything that potentially puts the playability of the CS at
risk (like MIDI which I deeply mistrust anyway, but MIDI and CS80 go
together as well as Chocolate Sauce and Smoked Eel). No, seriously, folks, I
am not one of these snobbish purists who´d say all innovation is bad right
from the start but I think it´s just hard to find anything as immediately
satisfying as far as musicality is concerned as the CS-80. I wouldn´t want
to control it from somewhere else, and I wouldn´t want to use it as a master
keyboard controller, either, as most other synthesizers are not designed to
respond the way a CS80 does. Using it within a setup should always bring out
your musical wit and your musical skills, rather than having its track
perfectly synced to your other stuff.
Stephen.
"Human beings are a disease, the cancer of this planet, you´re a plague. And
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rogoff" <david@...>
To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 12:27 AM
Subject: [yamahacs80] What mods would you want?
> Hi all.
>
> I'd like everyone to contribute to a list of everything you'd want
> added to the CS80 (besides the anti-gravity device). I'm trying to
> come up with what I'd want to add and I'm wondering what other people
> have added, or thought of adding.
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> Here's a few:
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> MIDI
> This is a biggie, since it could mean many things:
> MIDI in
> MIDI out
> Notes, pressure, ribbon, program change
> Others???
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> Auto tune
> Something like on later Prophet 5, including microtuning.
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> Digital patch storage
> Also like P5, and other late '70s polysynths: scan panel controls,
> digitize (fast & high resolution!), save to flash. We could really
> go crazy with this and replace the Panel sliders with motorized
> faders!
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> Oscillator Sync between sounds I & II.
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> Unison modes (like Kent is working on).
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> Split keyboard / Multitimbral.
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> Release velocity.
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> For some of these, especially trying to do several at once, the
> keyscanning and modulation distribution boards would basically get
> replaced. Lots of work!
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>
> Please comment/add your own!
>
> David
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