Yamaha CS80

Hi David,

congrats on your find! But.... (boring old elitist alert) don\ufffdt rip this
CS80 apart. What makes it what it is is the entity... and chopping up a
synth that is rare and soughtafter seems sacriligeous to me.

I can very well understand the techie bit and the challenge to come up with
these mods but...


Regards,

Stephen.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rogoff" <david@...>
To: <yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:58 AM
Subject: [yamahacs80] Yay - I have a CS-80 again!


> Well, thanks to Bradley/Synth80s (and my friend Ed, for helping me
> get it up the stairs), I am once again a CS-80 owner!  The tolex is
> a little bit rough and the keyboard needs a bit of work, but the
> panel/knobs look and work great and the tuning is perfect.
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> Now I have to decide how much restoration and/or modification I want
> to do to it.  At the minimum I'll fix up the keyboard, clean up some
> cosmetics, and add Crow's fixes to the CMOS boards (bypass caps,
> etc).
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> At the other extreme is to gut all electronics between the
> knobs/keyboard and the voice cards, replacing it all with a CPU/FPGA
> based board to have MIDI, CV/Gate I/O, programmable presets (like
> Prophet 5/OBX), voice assignment/unision modes, multi-timbral, auto-
> tune, and split into two (three with power supply?) cabinets so one
> person can move it.
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> I'm an electrical engineer and have some woodworking skills
> (including portabilizing a couple of Hammond organs), so it's all
> possible if I have the time and energy.
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> I'm going to take quite some time planning, deciding, and just
> playing, before I do anything drastic.  I'll be running some of
> these ideas in detail in the mods thread, but if there are other
> CS80 owners interested in massive rebuilds/mods, let me know,
> especially if you have engineering, firmware, or cabinet-making
> skills (hi Crow & Kent!).  It would great to come up with a common
> set of mods and split the development effort.
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> Much more later,
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>  David
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