| I really think that you could get the sounds with the 1U rack module
Matrix-1000. It includes aftertouch and release sensitivity. The aftertouch
was the unique new feature on the CS80.
The CS80 was the size of a double-keyboard home organ and it weighed a ton.
It's almost impossible to get them fixed. It had only 4 memory locations, and
those were miniature copies of the control panel, located under covers on the
unit!
Eirikur
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| I've used a CS-80. I've picked up a CS-80. You don't want a CS-80.
It's not a particularly flexible synth (i.e it's classic subtractive,
without any fun modulations except the ring modulator which sounded
like crap).
The only good things about it were:
1) polyphonic pressure keyboard. It felt nice, worked pretty well, too.
2) ribbon controller
3) lotsa polyphony (I forget if it was 1 oscillator/key or what, but
it never ran out. Come to think of it, I think it did have 1 osc/key
because you could lose one key's oscillator and not affect anything
else.)
The bad things were manifold...
1) it weighed > 400 lbs, was the size of a spinet except deeper,
and didn't come apart.
2) it used linear voltage rather than log voltage for controls- i.e.
instead of Moog/Oberheim standard 1 volt/octave, it used .01 volt/hz or
some such bogosity. Result was you couldn't really do any good
cross-modulations unless you liked sounding out of tune. The result
was that the poly-pressure keyboard was mostly wasted on things like
vibrarto...
3) Tuning the bugger took days.
4) You coundn't get 'em fixed.
5) No midi. No real interface at all, in fact.
6) 4 patch memories. Well, not really memories- 5 complete front
panels, one at full size, and four more with little pipsqueak pots that
were impossible to adjust to match the pots on the fullsize panel.
7) 10 very uninspired ROM patch memories... used fixed resistors
instead of pots. Came from the factory with standard sounds like "big
organ", "little organ" etc. You got to pick two patches at any one
time and they automatically got layered.
-Bill
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