Yamaha CS80

Does anyone use this? What's the typical way of utilizing this
feature?

I'm used to synths with an External Input to process another
instrument through the filter block, but this seems to route the
signal only as an aftertouch modulation source waveform.

Is there any sub-audio source that's good to use? Most signals I
could think to apply are audio frequency, which would seem to give a
noise or ring-mod like character to the modulation (maybe anyway,
haven't tried it yet).

Finally, is there sensitivity of the behavior to input level? As far
as the audio frequency sources I can think of, a microphone has a
totally different level than a synth or other line level source.

Of course, I could just play around with it, but thought I'd ask
before dragging it back from the wall and trying it out.

>I'm used to synths with an External Input to process another
>instrument through the filter block, but this seems to route the
>signal only as an aftertouch modulation source waveform.
>
>Is there any sub-audio source that's good to use? Most signals I
>could think to apply are audio frequency, which would seem to give a
>noise or ring-mod like character to the modulation (maybe anyway,
>haven't tried it yet).

Feed the main output back into the External Input!
With carefully set modulation level, you can bring in controlled "roughness"
to the sound
via aftertouch. (At least it works like that on the CS-50.)

JH.