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Re: [yamahacs80] (OT) Yamaha GS-1

2005-12-14 by laurie

Sounds like the same magnetic strips as on the CS70-m except they are on
the right hand side of the board....tell me, did you get the black
yamaha magnetic strip book with your GS???

The Old Crow wrote:

>    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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