Yamaha CS80

IMO, the korg tuners blow for synths. before this strobe tuner, id rather use my ears than the korg tuner for the FINE tuning of an osc.

good enough is a relative term.

what i love about this strobe tuner is that the difference between 1,2,3,4 cents is plain as day. when we are talking about "beating" between osc's, that's the range we are talking about. but it sounds like your rack tuner has good resolution. my issue with the korg is that on synths, it jumps around too much. you cant tell what its trying to say.

another approach to tuning the CS80 would be:
1- to do all 8 voices at 2', and get the range as good as you can.
2-tune voice 1 down the next 3 octaves.
3-tune voices 2-8 by ear on the last 3 octaves by holding down voice 1, then depressing voices sequentially.

just another thought. best of luck. 

"JH." <jhaible@...> wrote:                               I don't have a strobe tuner, nor a laptop.
 But I have this MAM rackmount tuner with a resolution of 0 - 3 - 5 - 10 - 
 20 - ... cents.
 And it's even possible to read in-between values, like the "0" LED being on 
 alongside with the "3" LED.
 Actually, with a CS-80 VCO on spot, the 0 cent LED glows, and the -3 and +3 
 cent LEDs slowly take turns glowing.
 
 Is this good enough? (I don't know the Korg tuners, I just heard that Stefan 
 designed that MAM tuner with the design goal to beat the Korg tuners.)
 
 JH.
 
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "rj krohn" <r_j_d_2.phila@...>
 To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
 Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 2:44 PM
 Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] New file uploaded to yamahacs80
 
 sure thing-if ANY of the cs80(or any synth that needs tuning) owners out 
 there have a mac laptop with an "audio in" jack-i think they all do-i would 
 strongly suggest the $15 Katsura digital strobe tuner program. if you set 
 your comp for "line in" under audio, this tuner is as rock solid as any $400 
 rackmount tuner. especially if you have a way to listen as well as run the 
 line in, its really great.
 
 it has saved me lots of time on tuning synths across the board. with the 
 cs80, it was especially helpful cause i could close the hood, let it warm 
 up, and then just go through and test every voice on the tuner and write 
 down EXACTLY how many cents it was off. this gave me a quantifiable way to 
 tell the difference between where the OSC's are with the hood up vs. down.
 
 "JH." <jhaible@...> wrote:                               >You can 
 access this file at the URL:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yamahacs80/files/cs80%20tuning%20tips.pdf
 
 That sounds very helpful, especially the last paragraph about the final
  corrections.
 
 Thank you!
 
 JH.
 
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