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Yamaha YC-45D organ expression pedal usable with a CS-80?

 

Greetings,


I hope this message finds everyone in the forum well. A friend of mine has the YC-45D organ, and I noticed that the expression pedal is very similar to the one that originally came with the CS-80. I've taken a look at the YC-45D manual, but there is very little information about the pedal itself. Does anyone here have any experience with this organ+pedal, and know if it works for the CS-80?

Sincerely yours,

Mathias
 

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Hi

This is the Circuit-diagram from the YC45 (I hope the embedded image is accepted by groups.io)



Florian

Am 26.04.21 um 20:25 schrieb Mathias Tjonn:

Greetings,


I hope this message finds everyone in the forum well. A friend of mine has the YC-45D organ, and I noticed that the expression pedal is very similar to the one that originally came with the CS-80. I've taken a look at the YC-45D manual, but there is very little information about the pedal itself. Does anyone here have any experience with this organ+pedal, and know if it works for the CS-80?

Sincerely yours,

Mathias

 

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Hi

This is the Circuit-diagram from the YC45 (I hope the embedded image is accepted by groups.io)



Florian

Am 26.04.21 um 20:25 schrieb Mathias Tjonn:

Greetings,


I hope this message finds everyone in the forum well. A friend of mine has the YC-45D organ, and I noticed that the expression pedal is very similar to the one that originally came with the CS-80. I've taken a look at the YC-45D manual, but there is very little information about the pedal itself. Does anyone here have any experience with this organ+pedal, and know if it works for the CS-80?

Sincerely yours,

Mathias

 

Since the YC's swell pedal is hardwired to the unit, it can only be used with a CS synth when ripping it from an organ first. Which would be a bloody shame.
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A while ago, I posted a similar question here in the forum as to whether the SY-1's swell pedal could be used with a CS50 (to which no one felt inclined to respond). I found it out the hard way -- yes, it can be used. The 50 puts out something around 15 volts at the Control Pedal jack.
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Stephen
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Gesendet:?Montag, 26. April 2021 um 22:12 Uhr
Von:?"Florian Anwander" <fanwander@...>
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Betreff:?Re: [yamahaCS80fans] Yamaha YC-45D organ expression pedal usable with a CS-80?
Hi

This is the Circuit-diagram from the YC45 (I hope the embedded image is accepted by groups.io)



Florian

Am 26.04.21 um 20:25 schrieb Mathias Tjonn:

Greetings,


I hope this message finds everyone in the forum well. A friend of mine has the YC-45D organ, and I noticed that the expression pedal is very similar to the one that originally came with the CS-80. I've taken a look at the YC-45D manual, but there is very little information about the pedal itself. Does anyone here have any experience with this organ+pedal, and know if it works for the CS-80?

Sincerely yours,

Mathias
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Thanks Florian, I'll see if I can have a tech build or mod a pedal for me.

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Best, Mathias
 

...and thanks Stephen, I promise no YC organ will loose it's pedal! It's not mine to mess with in any case, just thought if it worked with a CS-80, I could have a tech reverse engineer it of sorts and make a replica for my synth. Sounds like it does indeed work with the 80, so with Florian's schematics and whatever else I can find here in the forum, I'll proceed with looking into having one built.

Thanks again! Mathias
 

Now I'm relieved, at least?a little bit.
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You might want to try and have a go at the pedal of the SY-1 -- it works as a swell pedal with the CS50 so it should work with a CS80 as well.
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Stephen
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Gesendet:?Donnerstag, 29. April 2021 um 18:08 Uhr
Von:?"Mathias Tjonn" <mathiastjoenn@...>
An:[email protected]
Betreff:?Re: [yamahaCS80fans] Yamaha YC-45D organ expression pedal usable with a CS-80?
...and thanks Stephen, I promise no YC organ will loose it's pedal! It's not mine to mess with in any case, just thought if it worked with a CS-80, I could have a tech reverse engineer it of sorts and make a replica for my synth. Sounds like it does indeed work with the 80, so with Florian's schematics and whatever else I can find here in the forum, I'll proceed with looking into having one built.

Thanks again! Mathias

 

Hi,

Doesn’t the FC7 / CB 83742 volume pedal work with the Yamaha CS-50/60/80? Please correct me if I am wrong (now I’m curious). I think those are not so difficult to obtain.

And FC4 for sustain?

best,

DT
 

Yes, the FC7 works ok. The bad part is there's a lot of change from full-off pedal to half-pedal, and then not much change from half-pedal to full pedal.It's? not the nice, even throw you get with?a light-powered pedal and shutter assembly designed for it.??It's not so bad that you can't get used to it, but it's not an optimal?choice.

And I might mention, never plug an FC4 into the expression pedal jack, as it shorts the -15 VDC power rail directly to ground. There's a couple of different actions you can take with a mod on the PRA board to keep things safe if it's in a situation where someone might do that (i.e., roadie, studio guy, etc.).


On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 9:49 AM scituate_mass <sneakyflute@...> wrote:
Hi,

Doesn’t the FC7 / CB 83742 volume pedal work with the Yamaha CS-50/60/80? Please correct me if I am wrong (now I’m curious). I think those are not so difficult to obtain.

And FC4 for sustain?

best,

DT
 

Thanks for the info Scott. Could you possibly share that mod?

DId the original pedals have specific model numbers?

best,

DT
 

Greetings guys,

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Thanks for the info on the FC7 and the heads up on the FC4. I'm considering buying one of Syntaur's CVP-100 pedal, as they at least list it as functioning with a CS-80. Will shoot them an email to double check.


Best,

Mathias

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