Yamaha CS80

--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, marzzz@... wrote:
>
> 
> In a message dated 9/30/04 10:06:37 PM, david@... writes:
> 
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> > I had a question for anyone who's got experience with both the CS-80
> > and the MIDIBoard.  For me, the best part of the CS-80 is the
> > keyboard: the feel, the velocity sensing and the pressure sensing. 
> > 
> How best to put this? F#%@^%@ing YES!!!!! Now that I have secured
mine, I can 
> let out the secret: Short of actually owning a mint CS-80, the Kurz
MidiBoard 
> is simply the absolutely best implementation of controlling Poly AT
ever 
> made. The piano touch is good- not quite as good as an A-80 (which I
feel was one 
> of the best, even better than many boards that came after it) but the 
> MidiBoard has that same spongy "give" that makes it easy to control
Poly AT, even if 
> you are using your 5th digit to bring out one note.
> 
> The only caveat is that the MidiBoard was made for a number of
years- there 
> were three OS revisions, and you DEFINITELY want the latest, 3.0; It
is nearly 
> impossible to update early versions.

Looking for some more MIDIBoard knowledge.  I just picked up another
one last night.  It's in very nice condition - a few small scratches.
It's very nice driving the CS80 I just added the Kenton MIDI kit to!

It appears to have OS version 2.2 since it has 46 parameters. I wonder
if anyone knows about the extra parameters. It came with the owners'
manual, but it's the same one that my old OS 1 MIDIBoard came with,
which only lists 42 parameters. The extra parameters are:

43 After Pressure Mode 0-1
44 Pitch Wheel Mode 0-1(seems to switch direction of wheel)
45 Velocity Map 1-4
46 Pressure Map 1-2

Any ideas?

Thanks,

 David