Looks pretty basic in terms of inputs and FM options.

Stephen

[...] Wonder how many remixes/remasters were made of Autobahn over the years? Lots. I am not sure how involved Röder actually was. Even though there were some early autograph cards depicting him, I think it´s safe to assume he was more of a hang-around who made himself redundant sooner or later, si...

Yeah darn that Rudess, buying a huge dotcom modular, setting it to a simple lead sound and leaving the settings for 2 years ^^ What´s wrong with that? Emerson has become a great hero that way. Everybody thinks Emerson is God -- and God never changes presets. Kraftwerk: Antenna on a borrowed Korg MS...

[...] The big deal with it is it has the dual-voice/patch-layering setup like the CS80 although 12 voices instead of 16. [...] Just to be precise, the 70 is six-voice polyphonic and the 80 is eight-voice polyphonic. They both have twice the amount of voiceboards for layering patches (or "Channels",...

[...] Probably an easy repair though. [...] Not so sure about this... lots of custom ICs inside, and -- even though it´s been simplified and nowhere near as complex as a CS80 inside -- full of inherent problems due to complexity. I think I´d only buy a broken one to gut it for spare parts. Stephen

If you don´t expect it to sound exactly like a CS80/60/50, I think it´s an okay-ish polysynth. Quite unlike the rest of the bunch -- which may be one of its biggest assets now. Not sure it´s worth the asking price, though, but, of course, it´s "vintage", "like CS80", "rare" etc. which goes to justif...

I can´t see any point in recreating the same type of cabinet, made from tolex-covered plywood. That could be made from a solid sheet-metal/plastic compound quite as well (think Kurzweil K2500 or Yamaha VL-1). No need for the presets in hardware -- if the unit comes with memory, you can just include ...

Infrasound wrote:Do soft synths count? [...]

I don´t think so. Computers and software can easily be replaced these days. Try this with a hardware synth, preferably a classic one.

A broken computer is annoying nonetheless.

Stephen

knolan wrote: [...] Yamaha released 1000 CS80s. Subsequent to the release of China by Vangelis, such was the demand for CS80s that Yamaha doubled that to 2000 units.

I am sure Kent Spong would beg to differ.

Stephen

Not a Rev. 2 but a Rev. 1 -- we compared it side-by-side with a Rev. 3.3. The difference was there but minuscule. The 1 was perhaps a bit more funky (i. e. less stable).

Stephen

Yeah. I reckon I'm gonna keep it. I'll probably suck it up and get MIDI installed in it in the future. There's a dude in the Netherlands does it for about €400. Problem is shipping, but I looked into it and a courier from Ireland to the Netherlands would be about €50. So about 500 all in for MIDI w...

I nearly got electrocuted by a Korg X911 which apparently wasn´t grounded properly. In some people´s minds, this makes the X911 a very good instrument. I remember gazing at an ARP 2600 in utter disbelief -- the instrument had been shipped by United Parcel Smashers. They let it drop and the main PCB ...

[...] "What is the worse thing that [...] has ever happened to your synths?" I use them for making music with them, I reckon. Seriously, the power supply of my EKO Compute Rhythm shorted one evening, and the fumes it emitted were terrible -- not to mention my sheer horror of never being able to eve...

What I would like to know is why you need 3 of them? Maybe he´s got three arms, or he doesn´t exactly trust their reliability. This is just to coincide with a sudden drop in CS80´s going rates. There are two up for auction on eBay, and they are surprisingly *cheap*, compared to what they went for a...

[...] and what is poly after touch? i know what after touch is, and my ultra nova has after touch and it works just fine. and i can hold down and push harder on a cord and they all "after touch" [...] Poly aftertouch is not just pressure articulation of a chord, you can articulate single notes with...