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

Greetings to both Erik and Antoine and welcome aboard. I only came into
this CS80 group myself a few months back and it's fun to be able to
connect with other CS-80 owners and enthusiasts from all over. I've had
my CS-80 since about 1979, I remember carrying it home from the music
shop all excited with the CS-80 crammed into the back seat of my VW
Beetle! (I'm still not sure how I managed that, but I did.). Anyway
after years of heavy usage, followed by years of heavy neglect I finally
had my machine fully restored last summer when my old band had an
opportunity to do a one-time reunion gig and I couldn't go on without my
main instrument. So now I have been re-discovering how much fun this is
all over again.

Antoine, I really liked your site and it's about time someone had the
initiative to put that together. It was fun playing through all your
collection of preset sample sounds. Nicely done. I have to agree with
you that there is something about the physical connection through the
keyboard that isn't like any other. I haven't tried or experienced the
CS80V yet, and maybe never will. I can see it being useful for home
recording and MIDI projects, but for playing live with other musicians,
you gotta have the real thing, in my book.

Anyway, glad to have two new members to share stories with.

-Tim S.
<Minneapolis>
CS-80 S/N #1512