OldSynths

Have you looked at:
http://www.oldcrows.net/~oldcrow/synth/yamaha/cs80/

Tips & procedures on maintaining the cs80, from someone who's devoted a LOT 
of time & attention to old synths.

~GMM


At 05:18 PM 1/22/04 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm probably gonna work on my CS80 again this weekend. The poor
>beast is terribly out of tune as it hasn't really been played in
>about 2 years.
>
>Here's how I'm doing the tuning. I synthesized some sign waves using
>a old copy of Sound Forge XP and play these into my mixer in loop
>mode.  I get a perfect A440 or whatever this way.
>
>Then I pop open my baby and attack the trimmers.  Takes hours this
>way. I'm counting the beats but the trimmers are wacky on account
>their max position is almost within a few cents but darn it, I just
>can't get it.  So, I'm thinking I might try adjusting the master
>tuner fader to see if I can get the trimmers "centered".
>
>I really need a good Frequency Counter but I'm almost afraid to buy
>one because all I'll be using it for is to tune. Is there such a
>thing as a tuner for Electronics? (the idea of using a guitar tuner
>is insane to me although to be honest, I've never tried).
>
>If you've got any advice for me, it'd be great.  I've one channel of
>the CS80 tuned (stills sounds bad, though) and I'm not looking
>forward doing the other channel at all.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Scott L Holmes
>
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