Yamaha CS80

ribbon is pitch only

matrix wrote:

>  What's interesting is the CS60 has a bit of this as well.  When I
> first got it I was a little dissapointed.  It seemed a little
> lackluster, until... I figured out how to play it.  It comes alive
> when you learn how to use the aftertouch and modulations.  It's subtle
> but amazing.  I kept thinking of it like a violin; it sound like crap
> if you just pick up a bow and try to play it without "playing it
> right."  But when you do play it, wow!  It's still rather bizarre to
> me.  With a synth I expect that I can just press keys and be done.
> Not with the CS60.  I can't imagine what a CS80 would be like with
> poly aftertouch and more synthesis power.  Another amzing synth as
> fars as keyboard control goes is the Roads Chroma.
>
> BTW, with the CS60 the ribbon controller only controls pitch.  Is this
> also the case with the CS80 or can you have it mod other things like
> aftertouch.
>
> -matrix
> http://www.matrixsynth.com/blog
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: David Rogoff
>   To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:02 PM
>   Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] What it is about the CS80
>
>
>   Wavecomputer360 wrote:
>   > Hi Tim, hi Laurie,
>   >
>   > I think you hit the nail on the head... it´s the performance of
> the
>   > instrument, the way controls are laid out and the way the machine
> responds
>   > to you as a player which makes the CS80 stand out. And this is why
> all
>   > virtual emulations are pointless as the sum of it all makes it the
>
>   > instrument it is, not only the sound generation (which is rather
> simple,
>   > compared with, say, and Oberheim Xpander and such). Like Peter
> Forrest once
>   > said, other polysynths would wipe the floor with the CS80 when it
> comes to
>   > modulation routings and such but the CS80 would blow them all away
> when it
>   > comes to richness of sound and sheer performance power.
>   >
>   Most definitely!  Once again, the great things about the CS-80, for
> me,
>   are the feel and poly-aftertouch of the keyboard, the ribbon
> (including
>   being able to sweep down to D.C.), the choice of sustain I & II (for
>
>   nice mono/sustained sounds on a poly-synth), the ring modulator, and
>
>   having all the performance knobs.  I like the sound, but to me it's
> not
>   the big deal.  Now, give me an Oberheim 8-voice SEM box controlled
> from
>   a CS-80.  That instrument could caress like a feather or kill a
>   tyrannosaurus from a mile away...
>
>   As I've mentioned, I picked up a MIDIBoard and a Roland A-50 a while
> ago
>   to try and have a poly-aftertouch MIDI controller, but I'm still
> working
>   on restoring the A-50.  How do we get Edirol (=Roland, who made the
> A-50
>   and A-80) or M-Audio to add this?  Their MIDI/USB keyboards are
> getting
>   nicer all the time with more programmable knobs and sliders.  How do
> we
>   convince them that there's a market (other than a few dozen of us
> here)?
>
>   David
>
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