Yamaha CS80

There's a guy on YouTube putting up videos of the Yamaha Electone E70
claiming it to have the same synth engine as the CS80. I put a couple of
his vids up here:
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/02/e-70-j-demo-cs80-heart.html and
here: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/02/e-70-b-alaska-test.html that
show a couple of videos where he makes the claim. You can click here for
all of his videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/FlametopFred.



I was wondering if there was any truth in the claim and if so, to what
extent? What synth engine does the E70 have?



cheers,

matrix

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com





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It is not the same. The E70 & stage model EX-2 use wavetable
oscillators and have 7-note polyphony per manual, or a total of 11 notes
on both manuals together. The filters are close, they are IG00155
filter ICs that as far as i can tell only lack the key voltage control
input to scale the filter to a keyboard. The EGs, while exhibiting
similar parameters, are actually digitally programmed. I have an EX-2,
and I can get some CS-80ish sounds from it using the upper/lower coupler
for layering 2 patches, but it ends up sounding more organ than
synthesizer. It is a nice instrument nonetheless.

Crow
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