Yamaha CS80

Hi tv...,

I was another big fan of EJ & UK from way back when so I can really 
relate... and  I'd have to give credit to hearing that CS80 on their 
first UK album as being the clincher for me when I was shopping around 
for my "main axe" to use with a new prog-type band we were starting up 
at the time. I suddenly just had to have one of these beasts and there 
was no way around it. Cost and weight be damned!

As to the "Dead of Night" sound, when I tried to reproduce that theme (I 
think we're talking about the same one here, with the punchy chords in F 
lydian to E minor) I always used a combination of Harpsichord on Channel 
1 with Brass 3 on Channel 2. I can't precisely remember the octave 
footages right now, but it was probably a combination of the 8' and 16' 
settings. I would have to experiment to figure it out again. That, to 
me, had a nice attack and I never considered using any of the string 
presets for this part. But I could be wrong.

-Tim S.
<Minneapolis>


tvphobic wrote:
>
> I'm interested in talking / chatting / corresponding with folks about
> the synthesis aspect of Eddie Jobson's work with UK, especially the
> first album, as subsequently he seemed to be making a "right turn"
> toward the Hammond (which he played quite serviceably) His CS-80 work
> made a big dent in my noggin and I probably wouldn't have gotten into
> electronic keyboards if I hadn't heard it.
>
> One question that is bugging me right now is that the fast-attack
> string sound which Eddie is using to play the main signature theme of
> "In the Dead of Night." It's clearly a layered part because he never
> came anywhere near it on the live recordings. Any notion as to what
> the components of the layer are? I think a jumping off point is
> "String 2" but both banks on such a patch don't yield much of what he got.
>
>
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