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Re: [yamahacs80] The usage of String 1 and String 2 presets.

2006-05-16 by laurie

Excuse my error.....  Don Airey ....Blizzard of Oz album.....

laurie wrote:

>  You know...I remember reading up on Don Airy and the CS80.......Don
> Airy
> used  CS80 brass 1 & 2  on OZZY Osbournes "Mr Crowely" intro(Glissando
>
> Sust 1) and I believe during the Song you hear Strings 1 and 2 with
> the
> pitch ribbon doing downward slides after the "Waiting on Satans
> Call" vocal  line......I heard it on the radio today and thought I
> should
> share that........
>
> Tommy Priakos wrote:
>
> >  I think Max was really meaning 3 and 4  (?).
> >
> > Mert Topel <mert@...> wrote:  How do you combine string 2
> > with string 4?
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Max Fazio
> >   To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
> >   Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:18 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] The usage of String 1 and String 2
> > presets.
> >
> >
> >   Very often the combination of strings2-strings4 is used, sometimes
>
> >   strings2 is tuned 1octave upper ; )
> >   M
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: "Mert Topel" <mert@...>
> >   To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
> >   Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:38 PM
> >   Subject: [yamahacs80] The usage of String 1 and String 2 presets.
> >
> >
> >   > My CS-80 ownership just dates back to one month only. Although I
>
> > am
> >   > immensely impressed by the CS-80's musicality, there is one
> point
> > that
> >   > still remains quite unclear to me: The usage of the String 1 and
>
> > String
> >   > 2 presets...
> >   >
> >   > I have found the other presets to be generally quite musical and
>
> >   > effective. But what about the String1 and String 2 ? How do you
> > use
> >   > these two presets? I find them very bright and harsh to layer
> each
> >
> >   > other in a dual strings patch or to layer any other sound that
> the
> > CS-
> >   > 80 produces.
> >   > Lessening the brightness does not even help much.
> >   >
> >   > Ironically, this poor combination is the first sound you hear
> > every
> >   > time you turn on any CS-80.
> >   >
> >   > Do I miss anything about this sounds? Could Yamaha have wasted
> two
> >
> >   > valuable memory locations by two awful string sounds on a
> > synthesizer
> >   > that can actually produce breath taking string sounds?
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