I have to beg your pardon if I was sometimes too heavy and too deep with concerns to some questions regarding the CS80 but, you know, my hunger for the knowledge of this special instrument sometimes made me loose my head. So I have to apologize for my questions on the velocity settings: I stated that the presets had a "dedicated" velocity response meaning there was something in the presets that took them apart form the panel settings. That's right, both Crow and David and Juergen to tell the most skilled, have warned me that there wasn't such architecture into the CS80 but I was convinced there was something wrong: how could the plucked instruments sound so different and so punchy!?? I realised it while trying to reproduce the BASS preset on the virtual: you all know that the controls have an exaggerated range between minimum and maximum, much more than on the original; with the right adjustments and with refernce to the user manual of the Yamaha's I got myself into reproducing the BASS preset "as it should", with all the correct velocity settings; one thing I noted was that the filter envelope swept the right way but there was something that put the original preset apart. By the way, this is a speculation but I guess I'm not far from truth; I call it a "bump" on the attack of the waveform: this means there is a sort of non-flat velocity response that has to deal both with filter and VCA. I measured this bump from an audio file in both time and amplitude domain: this bump should be around 60ms in time domain and approx. 3 dB higher than the actual level set both for AL and VCA level, with constant measures at higher velocities (the peak of the bump is always 3dB higher than the actual levels) By talking with someone who could read the schematics , he told me that the TWS board , which is responsible for the encoding of the velocity voltage, has a charge-discharge circuitry which lets a sort of "fixed" sharp envelope out to the TRG boards. This to me is responsible for this strange curve which reflects equally for the initial filter and VCA and maybe on the intial pitchbend causing some decimals below the pure half tone. Anyone can share his experience on the CS80 about my speculation? Let me know! Max
Message
The sound and "The Bump" (long)
2006-04-26 by faxiomas@virgilio.it
Attachments
- No local attachments were found for this message.
