Yamaha CS80

Hey Laurie,

interesting. I didn´t know the Ensoniq hat POLY aftertouch... is its keyboard any good? I am still looking for an affordable poly at master keyboard: Kurzweils are hard to get and the VAX77 too expensive. Are the Ensoniqs still available on the vintage market?

Cheers
Worsel

--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "Laurie Curry" <laurie@...> wrote:
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> 
> Gladly.....All that you can hear are capable with more oomph from a
> real CS80....
> 
> Keep in mind.... my polyAT examples ....the sound source in these
> examples are from the Arturia CS80V
> 
> and the Ensoniq SQ80 is the PolyAT keyboard........but you should
> grasp the Idea
> 
> http://audio.xanga.com/slammah/126bb1031243/audio.html
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> http://audio.xanga.com/slammah/b64a71031225/audio.html
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> http://audio.xanga.com/slammah/e82a31031186/audio.html
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> 
> of course I have some CS80 too.....but not much PolyAT action
> 
> http://slammah.xanga.com/audio/7bdae2131276/
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> http://slammah.xanga.com/audio/482b72131176/
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> http://slammah.xanga.com/audio/d533e1038642/
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> http://slammah.xanga.com/audio/33e942131171/
> -----Original message-----
> From: "stevelenham" yahoo@...
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:06:49 -0600
> To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [yamahacs80] Poly-aftertouch question + idea
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance, but could anyone give me some examples of
> how polyphonic aftertouch is actually used in performance? I'm
> particularly interested in how many notes tend to be modulated at a
> time - is it just one, or several?
> 
> I'm asking because I just learnt about a new range of long resistive
> sensors (ideal for ribbon controllers, incidentally) and it occurred
> to me that by adding one of these to a mono-aftertouch keyboard (say,
> my CS60) one could create what might be called "directed
> monoaftertouch". Such a system would still only take a single measure
> of pressure but, by detecting which single key was responsible for it,
> could apply the resulting modulation to a single voice rather than all
> active voices. 
> 
> I completely appreciate that it wouldn't be as good as proper poly
> aftertouch, but it would be a lot easier to implement. Would it be
> musically useful? I need to know whether to bother giving the idea
> more thought!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve L.
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