Yamaha CS80

David

Many many thanks for the great company and sharing
your tuning insights with us - I'll host the next CS80
tuning party at my studio! That was great fun. Maybe
there are other LA-area CS80 members interested if we
do another one?

[I'll try not to hit the mod wheel on the midiboard
this time!!]

cheers
steve

--- David Rogoff <david@...> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> Well, yesterday may have been the first time a bunch
> of people got 
> together to learn to tune a CS80 since some training
> sessions at Yamaha 
> thirty years ago!
> 
> Scott (who's in this group, and whose CS80 I added
> the Kenton MIDI kit 
> to), wanted me to clean up a few voices that had
> drifted a bit since I 
> last tuned it (a little over two years ago).  He
> figured we'd make it a 
> party, and invited a couple of other CS80 owners,
> including Shawn from 
> Analoghaven.com and Steve. It was a little crowded
> in Scott's studio 
> loft, with the ton of gear he has (and the Obie
> 4-voice wasn't even 
> there!), but we managed.
> 
> It took a long time, partly from schmoozing, partly
> from letting 
> everyone try tuning a voice card, and a lot from a
> D'oh! moment: Scott 
> has the MIDI in of the CS80 hooked up to a Kurzweil
> MIDIBoard. It's a 
> great setup for recording poly-aftertouch
> performances on his Mac and 
> then controlling the CS80. However, the
> spring-loaded pitch and mod 
> wheels of the MIDIBoard don't have a dead zone and
> don't always go back 
> to zero. Apparently, during our pizza break after
> the first four voices, 
> the wheels got hit, and the pitch-bend was slightly
> off for the next 
> four sets of cards.
> 
> In the end, it was all in tune. I think we also came
> up with a very nice 
> and fast tuning procedure which I'll write up in the
> next few days.  
> Looks like I may be putting in a couple more Kenton
> kits in the near 
> future, too.  Then we have to get all three MIDI-ed
> CS80s in one room, 
> played from the MIDIBoard, plus Scott's Obie 4-voice
> via a Doepfer 
> MIDI-CV interface. I think the sound will violate
> several international 
> weapons treaties!
> 
>  David
> 



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