Yamaha CS80

Thanks for the explanation, it's interesting. I have to study more  
about CS internals...

Daniel Forro

On 5 Jul, 2014, at 10:32 PM, 'Colin f' colin@...  
[yamahacs80] wrote:

>
>> Thanks for info, I didn't know. Who knows why key assign
>> algorithm is like this, maybe some kind of technical
>> limitation? I don't see any logical reason why on 8 voice
>> instrument one voice shouldn't play except when 8 keys are pressed.
>
> The 7 voice rotation appeared on the GX1 poly ranks.
> The GX has a switch mounted inside to disable the use of the 8th  
> voice, even
> if multiple voices are in use.
> The aim of that was to allow you to continue using the synth even if  
> a voice
> card failed - you could just swap the bad card into the voice 8  
> position and
> set the switch to 7 voices.
> I don't know if the CS has the same option, it may be they just used  
> the
> logic straight from the GX KAS chips.
> Another benefit of the 7 voice rotation is that minor differences  
> between
> the sounds of each voice card don't tend to cycle so obviously.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin