Yamaha CS80

No, the reason was because the chip was designed from organ tech. The 8th channel was assigned to the pedal board.

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> On 5 Jul 2014, at 14:33, "'Colin f' colin@... [yamahacs80]" <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Colin
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