Yamaha CS80

Hi,

>
> > Yes, it's true. I think that the polyphonic aftertouch 
> > is one of the few drawbacks of the GX-1 compared to the 
> > CS-80.
> >   
> Huh.  I never realized that. Bummer!  Do the two manuals 
> have velocity?
>

No velocity


>
> Very cool!  So to have the real-time programming of a CS80, 
> I'd need to get six of these boxes, mount them in a giant 
> frame and connect them in place of a tone card for each 
> voice section!  That would totally blow
> away the Jellinghaus programmer for the DX7 
> (www.synrise.de/guests/lorenz/coll/jellinghDX.html).
>

You would in fact need seven tone-boards. One for each section and 
row! ;-)

Lower keyboard row I
Lower keyboard row II
Upper keyboard row I
Upper keyboard row II
Pedal keyboard row I
Pedal keyboard row II
Solo keybaord

I'm planning to build at least two additional tone-boards to the GX-1 
that I'm working on.

/Niklas