My CS80 is SER-NO 1301 but the poor girl is not working at all.
Funny really when you think I restore them all the time that my one
is a big pile of bits in the corner of my room awaiting my attention.
But there is a good reason for this, I have a dream. My dream is to
take this colection of bits and turn it into a super 80. The plans
are drawn up, the money is amassing slowly and with luck there will
be a KSR web site showing what is happening as it happens.
The first thing to do is to build a new wood case for the keyboard
and a case for the panel controls. Then adding all the KSR upgrades
like the unison, cv/gate, cv-initial/cv-after for all eight banks,
19" rack mount psu, and a lage collection of moduels from MOTM or
Synthersizer.com. I am hopeing that I can tap off from the CS80's
main rack certain functions and connect them to jack sockets on the
front panel too intergrate with the rest of the modular to make one
big kick arse polysynth. It would be nice to get the wiggle control
onto the keyboard as well like the GX1 has but I don't think that is
going to happen unless Chris (Old Crow) a synth technician who I
respect greatly can give me some insight on how the GX1 does the
wiggle on the keyboard :)
I must say though that this is not a business venture but simply a
project to see how far the control of the CS80 can be taken. For me
the playing control of the 80 is what makes this baby so sex in
tolex. I am open to any idears or comments on this project.
Till next time.
