Yamaha CS80

that sounds killer! damn, wish i was there....i cracked mine last week to touch up a few voices and realized that its definitely not the most miserable process in the world....OBXA is definitely more annoying....

David Rogoff <david@...> wrote:                               Hi everyone.
 
 Well, yesterday may have been the first time a bunch of people got 
 together to learn to tune a CS80 since some training sessions at Yamaha 
 thirty years ago!
 
 Scott (who's in this group, and whose CS80 I added the Kenton MIDI kit 
 to), wanted me to clean up a few voices that had drifted a bit since I 
 last tuned it (a little over two years ago).  He figured we'd make it a 
 party, and invited a couple of other CS80 owners, including Shawn from 
 Analoghaven.com and Steve. It was a little crowded in Scott's studio 
 loft, with the ton of gear he has (and the Obie 4-voice wasn't even 
 there!), but we managed.
 
 It took a long time, partly from schmoozing, partly from letting 
 everyone try tuning a voice card, and a lot from a D'oh! moment: Scott 
 has the MIDI in of the CS80 hooked up to a Kurzweil MIDIBoard. It's a 
 great setup for recording poly-aftertouch performances on his Mac and 
 then controlling the CS80. However, the spring-loaded pitch and mod 
 wheels of the MIDIBoard don't have a dead zone and don't always go back 
 to zero. Apparently, during our pizza break after the first four voices, 
 the wheels got hit, and the pitch-bend was slightly off for the next 
 four sets of cards.
 
 In the end, it was all in tune. I think we also came up with a very nice 
 and fast tuning procedure which I'll write up in the next few days.  
 Looks like I may be putting in a couple more Kenton kits in the near 
 future, too.  Then we have to get all three MIDI-ed CS80s in one room, 
 played from the MIDIBoard, plus Scott's Obie 4-voice via a Doepfer 
 MIDI-CV interface. I think the sound will violate several international 
 weapons treaties!
 
 David
 
     
                               

       
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