Yamaha CS80

I believe that's the idea.  It has been looked at and from my 
understanding possible, but I don't want to put word in the mouth or 
otherwise put the relevant geniuses on the spot.

It does need to be pointed out though, that the economics of 
producing new batches of IG  ICs would be EXCEPTIONALLY 
questionable.  You've got a couple thousand of the target synths in 
the world, multiple ICs to re-do, and maybe something in the 
neighborhood of $100k fixed cost to produce a batch of parts - it 
would likely scale somewhat, but I mean that for EACH part.  You can 
do the math on whether there's an eventual payback there, but 
silicons are all BIG companies - they're going to weigh this against 
other development option for profit potential, not pursue it because 
of how cool CS-80s are.

This has been discussed in these threads before.  The solution is 
clearly hoping for discrete replacements, and cannibalizing 60s and 
80s in the meantime (a practice by the way which, over the next let's 
say 15 years can drastically reduce the market for new replacements 
be they discrete or ICs).  I myself bought one of Rob's KCB boards, I 
think it was around $135... then I said "wait a minute - I can get a 
CS-50 for less than $500!!!".  And I proceeded to do just that.  Nice 
fully functional CS-50 for $485, hope many years go by before I have 
to cannibalize it.  Not sure what that's worth now - it was less than 
two years ago when I got it -  but I reckon a bunch more than $500.  
I estimated at the time there were around $1300 worth of parts in 
there.





--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, blchrr@... wrote:
>
> It would be cool if some IC drop in could be made, maybe a pcb, 
with 
> discreet components for the vcos and wire it all up to the rest of 
the 
> spagetti.. 
> 
> Now that Juergen has one i feel a lot better about the future of 
the beast, 
> i know he will think of something clever.. 
> 
> What do you say juergen?? :) 
> 
> Whats after the frequency shifter pcb project :)))) 
> 
> > 
> > --- kent_spong <kent_spong@...> wrote:
> >> Well only a few weeks ago I was emailed by a guy in
> >> the US who 
> >> offered me $24,000 for my CS80 and guess what I said
> >> no
> > 
> > Heck, give him my email address. I love my CS-80, but
> > I'm not entirely sure I love it $24,000 worth. That
> > kind of scratch could build an amazing modular. 
> > 
> > Mike 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >       
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