Yamaha CS80

Thx Scott for these nice infos, I will try to push my FM7 to get some GS-1ish sounds ( what I love is the marimba like sound which at low pitches sounds wonderfully natural!)
PS:may I write you privately?
Max
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: The Old Crow 
  To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] (OT) Yamaha GS-1


    Well, I have a GS-1, although it is currently stored in the flight 
  cabinet from my house move.  The GS-1 has two identical tone generators, 
  each arranged as a 2 x 2 (two carriers, two modulators).  These are 
  separate boards and do not interact save for being clocked from a single 
  master source and mixed at the final audio stage.  What makes the setup 
  nice is that you can detune the master clock between the boards and get 
  a very nice fortification of the notes.  There are several clock skew 
  settings, from subtle to hard.  My favorite is "random" at a low 
  modulation level.  Makes the patches sound very acoustic.

    Loading the patches from the magnetic strips is not the easiest thing 
  in the world; most patches need to be loaded more than once.  The 
  process is very linear: press a preset button for the location you want 
  to store, put in the strip in the "A" direction, wait for it to spit 
  back out, put in the strip in the "B" direction, wait for it to come 
  out, and hopefully the preset LED will blink once, meaning everything 
  went OK.

    The "A" side loads voice card #1, the "B" side loads voice card #2.  
  These two sides can be elements of the same patch or two different 
  patches (eg, piano+marimba).

    Here is a pic of my GS-1 (with my DX-1 on top, and my then 1 1/2 
  year-old son having fun.)

  http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/yamaha/gs1/DX1_GS1.jpg

  Crow
  /**/

  Max Fazio wrote:

  >Hi all
  >ANybody knows a well documented site about this preset synth? I went through a number of them and all were poor. Looking especially for a detailed description of the synth path ( the only thin I know it it had 4xcarriers + 4xmodulators coupled two by two ).
  >Thx for your help!
  >M
  >  
  >



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