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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] The usage of String 1 and String 2 presets.

From: "Max Fazio" <faxiomas@...>
Date: 2006-05-09

Very often is the combination strings2-strings4 to be used, sometimes
strings2 is tuned1octave upper ;)
M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mert Topel" <mert@...>
To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:38 PM
Subject: [yamahacs80] The usage of String 1 and String 2 presets.


> My CS-80 ownership just dates back to one month only. Although I am
> immensely impressed by the CS-80's musicality, there is one point that
> still remains quite unclear to me: The usage of the String 1 and String
> 2 presets...
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> I have found the other presets to be generally quite musical and
> effective. But what about the String1 and String 2 ? How do you use
> these two presets? I find them very bright and harsh to layer each
> other in a dual strings patch or to layer any other sound that the CS-
> 80 produces.
> Lessening the brightness does not even help much.
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> Ironically, this poor combination is the first sound you hear every
> time you turn on any CS-80.
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> Do I miss anything about this sounds? Could Yamaha have wasted two
> valuable memory locations by two awful string sounds on a synthesizer
> that can actually produce breath taking string sounds?
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