Here's a short UK excerpt of CS-80 strings that I think sound great.
Listen to the independence of the lines, made possible by the CS-80's
poly aftertouch:
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http://homepage.mac.com/bgarratt/.Public/CS-80V_test/30%20Years-UK.mp3>
I believe Eddie Jobson used a Roland Chorus Echo to enhance the sound.
-bart
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> Hi Kent,
>
> thanks for the explenation. 64 vca-ic's, that's a lot of rare ic's.
> I thought you would generate the extra lfo's digitally ;-)
> Personally, I don't need the seperate lfo-mod. However, I find it
> difficult to program nice string-sounds on the CS80. I don't even
> come close to the strings of an prophet, jupiter or OB-8 etc.
> There's allways too much or too little PWM. It just sounds to much
> modulated and not as a rich stringsound. I don't know why, is it the
> filter ? I guess (!) that having the PWM lfo phase-shifted for each
> voice seperatly could give nice results, maybe a simple circuit
> would do the trick ? Why would we need to have the PWM on all voices
> phase-synced, I don't anyway ?