----- Original Message -----

From: wavecomputer360

To: yamahacs80@...

Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:05 AM

Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] What mods would you want?

Good point, this. What?s the point of having all these beautiful mods when
the instrument becomes unplayable due to some dead custom ICs?

Making the spare parts situation sort of safe is an important factor in the
enjoyment of a CS80...

Stephen

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----- Original Message -----
From: "The Old Crow"
To:
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] What mods would you want?


>
>?? My biggest mod plans are to replace all the custom chips with equivalent
> discrete circuits.? For a voice board, it will be mostly surface-mount
> parts in order to keep the board the same size as the originals.? Same
> goes for the KAS board (key assigner), though that one won't have to be
> surface-mount parts.
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>?? Auto-tune won't happen unless a key assigner with higher resolution
> DACs is made such that micro-tonal tuning of the pitch CVs can be done.
> That, and a feedback circuit to listen to each channel's oscs, along with
> a "silencer" VCA placed in the audio output circuit so the horrendous
> squawking the machine would make while running a tune algorithm is
> avoided.
>
>?? I'm going to try and avoid the issue with new VCO circuits that don't
> have tracking issues. ;)
>
> Crow
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