Yamaha CS80

--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "hudson_fall" <ade_crane@...> wrote:
>
> I'm about to get on the road to tour my album- and I used my cs-80 for 
> lush pads and a bit of spacey high motifs. Can anyone recommend a synth 
> to take- I've had a  Roland JD-800 recommended for reliability.????? 

The JD-800 is a great all around synth, and I often use the CS-80 and
CS-60 patches I've found (the Jean Michel Jarre ones are nice and the
"Vangelis" ones are also nice).

Just make sure your JD-800 has no keyboard issues. The two main ones
are aftertouch sensitivity (which can be fixed with a vari pot or
resister mod) and bad epoxy glue on some keyboards (which requires a
new keyboard). Mine had the former (which I fixed with the mod) and
does not have the latter.

JD's can be picked up on eBay for between $500-$800. You could also go
with the rackmount JD-990, but the JD-800 patches would have to be
converted using Gwydi's patch converter.

The sampling optioned also mentioned would be another good route to go.

-Jim
www.sensitivechaos.com
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Atlanta Creative Loafing's "Best Local Electronic Act" 2007