Yamaha CS80

It is not that simple: the CS machines are much more than the sound of 
their chips.  The only way to re-create a CS-80 is to make sure there is 
the correct type of weighted keyboard with poly pressure and initial 
touch, and all of the performance controls are arranged in the same 
fashion around it.  Now, this can be built, but I am not a carpenter. :)

  I do want to make a sort of 5U rackmount CS-80, that I oddly call the 
CSR-80, but without a suitable keyboard/control system to connect to it, 
it won't be the same.  I might try operating such a rack from the DX-1, 
provided I can get it to send poly-pressure data over MIDI.

  It is a player<->keyboard communion issue, and it has to be done right 
in order to have the same allure as the original CS-80. 

Crow
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 marzzz@... wrote:
> 
> Crow-
> 
> Once you have replaced all the custom chips with equivalent discrete
> circuits, how much further do you have to go to essentially recreate a
> Yamaha CS-80?  Imagine I have a MIDI keyboard capable of generating
> polyaftertouch, and perhaps have a Kurzweil Expressionmate handy. I am
> thinking of a box similar to the Oberheim Expander, hopefully weighing
> significantly less and with better tuning stability.
> 
> -Marshall