Yamaha CS80

Hi slippery,nice to have you there!

I'm interested about the soundtrack and what are you actually producing with the Big Combo!
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: slipperysoles 
  To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:48 PM
  Subject: [yamahacs80] From soft to hard


  Here is the story:

  I never cared about Vangelis, in a way (and forgive us for being
  arrogant when we were young) he was uncool like Jarre was uncool.
  While Bladerunner was cool, I obviously was not cool enough, because I
  never saw the movie until 1991. I did however love electronic music. I
  still remember as a kid being in the music section of a big department
  store when for the first time I heard the solo in Lucky Man.

  I never cared about the CS-80, polysynths were out of reach anyway.
  The first polysynth we could afford was a Korg Poly 61. However in my
  first band we had an SY-1, a little machine that I always loved.

  Fast forward a few years. 

  I set up a small studio and started recording again. Hard synths, soft
  synths, it did not matter (and still doesn't). I even got in touch
  with the boys from my first band again and we engaged in a
  cooperation. We started missing our SY-1, which sadly enough had been
  sold when frequency modulation (and yes you experts out there: I have
  heard that the DX series in fact used phase modulation.) hit the stage.
  It was time to get that sound again. I got outbid on a few SY-1s on
  ebay and elsewhere, and finally I went for a CS-5 as a substitute. But
  while I think the CS-5 is a cool little machine, its sound is not
  anywhere close to the SY-1. 

  After a recording session we were watching a DVD that a friend had
  brought along, the Bladerunner 25th anniversary edition and I got
  interested in the sound. 

  I bought a CS-80V. 

  We made a soundtrack Vangelis style. 

  We got infected. 

  We got a CS-80.

  (to be continued)



   

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