Yamaha CS80

Anyone using the original foot controller/pedals with their CS80?

I didn't get any pedals with my CS80 and I'm generally a bit wary of plugging things in to
her as she currently works like a dream and I'd hate to risk changing that. However, I did
find that a Yamaha sustain pedal from a PF200 piano works fine as a sustain
and portamento pedal.

Just wondering whether it's worth trying a pedal in the other foot controller socket. Can
anyone who uses one tell me if it's a worthwhile experience? I presume it can open the
filter but anything else? I've never understood what the Exp & Exp Wah switches were for
and I'm presuming they have different effects when using the foot controller?

If anyone also has experience of which (if any) non-original pedals work with this then I'd
be grateful for the info. Better still, anyone who does use one, fancy posting an mp3 up on
site?

While on the subject of plugging things in - anyone brave enough to try plugging into the
Ext socket? Good results?

Cheers

Si

You can plug audio into the EXT socket....there is a level control that
allows input level in control on the back....this is a modulation
source in the Sub Oscillator....I have plugged a pzm mic in here to
modulate the CS80 with voice like a monoband vocoder.......another neat
use is play a CS80 into a leslie.....then mic the horn or rotor with
the mic and input it back into the CS80.....the effect is a neat
alternating distortion/clean effect (amp)at the speed the rotors or
horns are turning.....It makes the amplitude modulation through the
leslie more distinct and the distortion is quite nice and at your
fingertips....
However you must use the right volume pedal in the controller input for
the Wah EXP pedal.....It uses a lightbulb and photocell to read the foot
position.and the voltage to power the light is in the line.....I have
blown a ground rail in the past when my pedal jack shorted....inside the
TRS male jack....It cost about $250.00 to get fixed and that was ten
years ago.......

rabbitfoot88 wrote:

> Anyone using the original foot controller/pedals with their CS80?
>
> I didn't get any pedals with my CS80 and I'm generally a bit wary of
> plugging things in to
> her as she currently works like a dream and I'd hate to risk changing
> that. However, I did
> find that a Yamaha sustain pedal from a PF200 piano works fine as a
> sustain
> and portamento pedal.
>
> Just wondering whether it's worth trying a pedal in the other foot
> controller socket. Can
> anyone who uses one tell me if it's a worthwhile experience? I presume
> it can open the
> filter but anything else? I've never understood what the Exp & Exp Wah
> switches were for
> and I'm presuming they have different effects when using the foot
> controller?
>
> If anyone also has experience of which (if any) non-original pedals
> work with this then I'd
> be grateful for the info. Better still, anyone who does use one, fancy
> posting an mp3 up on
> site?
>
> While on the subject of plugging things in - anyone brave enough to
> try plugging into the
> Ext socket? Good results?
>
> Cheers
>
> Si
>
>

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Thanks. Sounds an interesting idea with the leslie.

Glad I asked about the foot controller - don't want to blow mine up!

Anyone got a spare original foot controller they want to sell? Or maybe a schematic we
could use to have one made up?

--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, laurie <laurie@...> wrote:
>
> You can plug audio into the EXT socket....there is a level control that
> allows input level in control on the back....this is a modulation
> source in the Sub Oscillator....I have plugged a pzm mic in here to
> modulate the CS80 with voice like a monoband vocoder.......another neat
> use is play a CS80 into a leslie.....then mic the horn or rotor with
> the mic and input it back into the CS80.....the effect is a neat
> alternating distortion/clean effect (amp)at the speed the rotors or
> horns are turning.....It makes the amplitude modulation through the
> leslie more distinct and the distortion is quite nice and at your
> fingertips....
> However you must use the right volume pedal in the controller input for
> the Wah EXP pedal.....It uses a lightbulb and photocell to read the foot
> position.and the voltage to power the light is in the line.....I have
> blown a ground rail in the past when my pedal jack shorted....inside the
> TRS male jack....It cost about $250.00 to get fixed and that was ten
> years ago.......
>
> rabbitfoot88 wrote:
>
> > Anyone using the original foot controller/pedals with their CS80?
> >
> > I didn't get any pedals with my CS80 and I'm generally a bit wary of
> > plugging things in to
> > her as she currently works like a dream and I'd hate to risk changing
> > that. However, I did
> > find that a Yamaha sustain pedal from a PF200 piano works fine as a
> > sustain
> > and portamento pedal.
> >
> > Just wondering whether it's worth trying a pedal in the other foot
> > controller socket. Can
> > anyone who uses one tell me if it's a worthwhile experience? I presume
> > it can open the
> > filter but anything else? I've never understood what the Exp & Exp Wah
> > switches were for
> > and I'm presuming they have different effects when using the foot
> > controller?
> >
> > If anyone also has experience of which (if any) non-original pedals
> > work with this then I'd
> > be grateful for the info. Better still, anyone who does use one, fancy
> > posting an mp3 up on
> > site?
> >
> > While on the subject of plugging things in - anyone brave enough to
> > try plugging into the
> > Ext socket? Good results?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Si
> >
> >
>
>
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>