Yamaha CS80

You also might want to join OLDSYNTHS.
There are a lot of technical people there too.
I have a CS60 myself.
-Rory Mc Donald

On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Jeroen wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> New member here. I don't have a cs-80, but I just picked up a 50  
> and a 60
> for a nice price, because they each have a few issues. Nothing big  
> as it
> turned out, so I'm quite happy with that. I hope it's ok to ask a few
> technical questions here; there aren't any groups for the 80's little
> brothers but I know that most of their insides are alike :)
>
> The 50 was considered dead, but it's actually very much alive; the  
> only
> thing is that one voiceboard is out of whack. It sounds different  
> (as if the
> filter starts off more open and may even has more range than the  
> rest) and
> the filter envelope on that one is also way off ( waaay too slow).
> I've seen the service guides and I've been toying with it, but I  
> don't want
> to break anything, so if anyone has some good tips on how to get  
> that card
> back into shape, I'd love to hear it although I'm sure at one point  
> I'll
> have to drag it to a specialist. :) I'd love to learn to do it myself
> though.
>
> The 60 is in good working order, except for the ribbon controller. The
> spring which sits in the ribbon was broken, thankfully near the non  
> wirded
> end.
> I've fixed that, but the spring has a few kinks in it. Anyone  
> experienced
> with reseating a kinked spring? Or are these springs still available
> somewhere? I can seat it as it is, and then it works, but it will  
> end up
> with a few little gaps where the kinks are.
>
> Oh, one more thing, the little lightbulb used for the aftertouch,  
> are those
> still available somewhere? The one on the 60 was dead, so I changed  
> it with
> the one from the 50, but I want 'm both to work :)
>
> Thanks :)
> Jeroen
>
> 


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