The unit weighs some 60 pounds.
[=Sign-on=] Dolphin (aroooooo@ese.UCSC.EDU) entered group <*Dolphin*> Hi there - you looking at <*Dolphin*> screen????????????????????????????????????? [=Beep!=] Dolphin sent you a beep. <*Dolphin*> I know how much you like beeps. :) <*Dolphin*> The synth *is* the synth from hell I was talking about... over <*Dolphin*> *200* pots in the damn thing. <*Dolphin*> I refer to the yamaha. <*Dolphin*> anyway, there is one board with no main osc, and one board <*Dolphin*> with no lfo. many dirty cheap pots. :) <*Umlaut*> hi hi <*Dolphin*> See 4 previous msgs. <*Umlaut*> wow <*Umlaut*> 200 pots! are a lot of them for the presets? <*Umlaut*> (the presets I dont much care about.) <*Umlaut*> how many voices is the thing? 8? <*Dolphin*> No, they are for maching the control signals to each voice, <*Dolphin*> osc pitch and track, etc. Ther is a net guy with info on what <*Dolphin*> pot does what.. email sent.. <*Dolphin*> 8. yes. <*Umlaut*> wow. so each of 8 voices has 20 or 25 trim pots? <*Umlaut*> the mind boggles! <*Dolphin*> 20 per voice board, 50 or so on other boards. <*Dolphin*> I have all the voices tracking well, now, so repeated <*Dolphin*> keypresses won't give random notes. <*Umlaut*> ah. they were out of tune relative to each other? <*Dolphin*> Another case of a japanese manufacturer getting their act <*Dolphin*> together. After this one. :) <*Dolphin*> yep. <*Umlaut*> hahaha <*Umlaut*> there is one model "higher" in the CS series: the CS-80. <*Umlaut*> This is the CS-60. <*Dolphin*> Nice unit however. I lik. <*Dolphin*> like. <*Dolphin*> I never lik electronics. <*Umlaut*> thats good, especially when they are running. <*Dolphin*> That is the floor model, I presume? <*Umlaut*> I think its a similar design, maybe bigger. <*Dolphin*> That is to say, console model. <*Dolphin*> Yep. well. I'll know more soon. <*Dolphin*> Do you know how to get slip or PPP running under Windoze? <*Umlaut*> so what makes the thing so danged heavy? <*Dolphin*> I bet thats not a one line answer. :) perhaps I'll go find a <*Dolphin*> faq now. <*Umlaut*> (and yes, its a one line answer: nope!) <*Dolphin*> It has *18* circuit boards. <*Dolphin*> Looks like an early transistor computer. <*Umlaut*> ha ha ha ha ha! Its funny, because unlike the computers, we still <*Umlaut*> *like* the synthesizers. <*Dolphin*> And in spite of that, there is only simple envlope control. <*Dolphin*> whatta nightmare. <*Umlaut*> ? simple envelope meaning ADSR? <*Dolphin*> I must admit its a cool synth.. noise in the V*O circuit is <*Dolphin*> nice for wierd sounds. <*Dolphin*> If several voices are sounding, additional notes cause V*O <*Dolphin*> effects to go "universal" <*Umlaut*> I dont understand... <*Dolphin*> Lots of envlopes however. <*Umlaut*> like LFO modulation? <*Umlaut*> just one lfo? <*Dolphin*> Hold 4 keys down. press a fifth. all envlopes on all voices <*Dolphin*> are triggered. <*Umlaut*> weird, is that a bug? <*Dolphin*> Or something like that anyway. <*Dolphin*> They just didn't want 40 circuit boards I assume. <*Dolphin*> Its not a feature, however. :) [=Topic=] Dolphin changed the topic to "Stamp out bloat today!" <*Dolphin*> Untill later... [=Sign-off=] Dolphin (aroooooo@ese.UCSC.EDU) just signed off.