Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

Hi all.

Crow is doing great work to build new CS-80 voice cards with
off-the-shelf parts. But, as we all know, the sound engine is only
half the point of the CS-80. It doesn't look like anyone (Roland,
Fatar, M-audio, CME) is going to release a poly-aftertouch MIDI
keyboard anytime soon. Therefore, we have to come up with one.

I'm hoping that someone can tell me any details about the
channel-aftertouch sensors used in current controllers. I'm hoping
there's a way to modify the existing sensor (with lots of added
circuitry) to turn it into poly-aftertouch. Anybody know? Any
pointers? Does anyone have specs on the raw Fatar keyboards that the
other companies use? Who else makes the raw/OEM keyboards that have
channel aftertouch?

David