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feb 25: cs-80 tuning
the thing I made, is a remake (tuning) of a very classic, very old, very amazing machine: my Yamaha CS-80. The tuning process requires finding a lot of tuning points buried deep inside a bunch of circuit boards…and my CS-80 has needed it for a while. (It’s one reason why it hasn’t been in my latest tracks…it just sounds way off-key!)here’s a photo of my friend’s, as I’m busy still with DMM, probes, flashlights and plastic adjustment screwdrivers…truly a thing of wonder (each half of the pic will take you to a 1600×1200 closeup):
Tomorrow, I hope: sounds from this thing.
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My friend says he didn’t understand this post…for others out there mystified: just like you tune a piano, you also tune synthesizers, especially old ones. The photo is of this machine with its “lid up” and the circuit boards in the “tuning position,” pulled about 40cm up out of the machine.