From analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Thu Apr 8 05:23:13 1993 Received: by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA08224; Thu, 8 Apr 93 03:00:29 -0400 Errors-To: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Sender: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Received: from motgate.mot.com by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA08219; Thu, 8 Apr 93 03:00:28 -0400 Received: from pobox.mot.com ([129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-2.13 for ) id AA13958; Thu, 8 Apr 1993 02:00:28 -0500 Received: from comm.mot.com (il02dns1.comm.mot.com) by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-2.12 for ) id AA11342; Thu, 8 Apr 1993 02:00:27 -0500 Received: from dub-tse ([145.21.14.7]) by comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA25792; Thu, 8 Apr 93 02:00:21 CDT Message-Id: <9304080700.AA25792@comm.mot.com> Received: by dub-tse (16.6/16.2) id AA08477; Thu, 8 Apr 93 07:57:13 +0100 From: Peter Cassidy Subject: Re: yamaha CS01-II To: ANALOGUE@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Date: Thu, 8 Apr 93 7:57:10 BST Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25] Status: OR > > > >... while i was on the mainland over winter > >break, I came upon this highly questionable bit of technology. Its a tiny > >littel (2.5 octave, mini casio sized) synth, made by Yamaha, numbered > >CS01-II. I couldn't figure out its purpose. > > You paid $30 for a new CS01-II?! I'll give you $30 for it right now AND > pay shipping! The CS01-II is possibly the last analogue synth Yam ever made, > a portable strap-on analog beastie with tiny chiclet keys and a surprisingly > good sound. Chick Corea soloed with one for one tour in 1983 before he got > -- > mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com Hey, all, Someone offered me one of these beasties for 30 Irish pounds ($50) yesterday. I can pick it up for less, maybe if anyone is interested. -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | M O T O R O L A B . V . I R E L A N D | | ----------------------------------------- | | Peter Cassidy - T.S.E Dublin | Phone : 353-1-840-8866 Ext. 417 | | MACCVM : C10404 | X400 : peterc@comm.mot.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Thu Apr 8 03:00:40 1993 Received: by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA08224; Thu, 8 Apr 93 03:00:29 -0400 Errors-To: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Sender: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Received: from motgate.mot.com by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA08219; Thu, 8 Apr 93 03:00:28 -0400 Received: from pobox.mot.com ([129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-2.13 for ) id AA13958; Thu, 8 Apr 1993 02:00:28 -0500 Received: from comm.mot.com (il02dns1.comm.mot.com) by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-2.12 for ) id AA11342; Thu, 8 Apr 1993 02:00:27 -0500 Received: from dub-tse ([145.21.14.7]) by comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA25792; Thu, 8 Apr 93 02:00:21 CDT Message-Id: <9304080700.AA25792@comm.mot.com> Received: by dub-tse (16.6/16.2) id AA08477; Thu, 8 Apr 93 07:57:13 +0100 From: Peter Cassidy Subject: Re: yamaha CS01-II To: ANALOGUE@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Date: Thu, 8 Apr 93 7:57:10 BST Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25] Status: OR > > > >... while i was on the mainland over winter > >break, I came upon this highly questionable bit of technology. Its a tiny > >littel (2.5 octave, mini casio sized) synth, made by Yamaha, numbered > >CS01-II. I couldn't figure out its purpose. > > You paid $30 for a new CS01-II?! I'll give you $30 for it right now AND > pay shipping! The CS01-II is possibly the last analogue synth Yam ever made, > a portable strap-on analog beastie with tiny chiclet keys and a surprisingly > good sound. Chick Corea soloed with one for one tour in 1983 before he got > -- > mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com Hey, all, Someone offered me one of these beasties for 30 Irish pounds ($50) yesterday. I can pick it up for less, maybe if anyone is interested. -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | M O T O R O L A B . V . I R E L A N D | | ----------------------------------------- | | Peter Cassidy - T.S.E Dublin | Phone : 353-1-840-8866 Ext. 417 | | MACCVM : C10404 | X400 : peterc@comm.mot.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu Wed Apr 7 23:40:37 1993 Received: from cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu by bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA27365; Wed, 7 Apr 93 23:40:36 -0400 Received: by cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (AIX 2.1 2/4.03) id AA17177; Wed, 7 Apr 93 22:38:50 CDT From: dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell) Message-Id: <9304080338.AA17177@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: yamaha CS01-II To: jciliber@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jon Ciliberto) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 22:38:49 CDT Cc: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu In-Reply-To: ; from "Jon Ciliberto" at Apr 7, 93 3:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL5] Status: OR Previously, Jon Ciliberto wrote: > > > the name sounds similar, at leats... while i was on the mainland over winter > break, I came upon this highly questionable bit of technology. Its a tiny > littel (2.5 octave, mini casio sized) synth, made by Yamaha, numbered > CS01-II. I couldn't figure out its purpose; it seems new enough looking to be > post analog, but the layout is of a classic analog synth. It's monophonic, > has no MIDI (nor any other inputs -- except what will be mentioned in a > second), and no direct oscillator control. The sound is digital, but the > panels controlas are VCO (not DCO). > > left which relate to the Breath Control. (there is a little 1/8" input for > that.) This final element leads me to believe that this thingwas oconstructed > to work with one of Yamaha's pre-MIDI breath controllers -- but what a > strange synth for suich a thing. I picked it up for $30, and it is apparanlty > new. Any comments on this thing? If I remember correctly, this not-a-toy is supposed to be something of a countering volley by Yamaha to both the Roland SH-101 and to the smaller keyboards that Casio was developing around the early 1980s. It's a pretty good little performance-type device for leadlines and what-have-you, but it's not of the programming caliber to do anything really mind-blowing. And speaking of blowing, you'll find that that breath controller input works with Yamaha's _post_-MIDI breath controllers. The synth's from the same vintage as the first DX-synths, and a DX breath controller will work nicely with it. $30 is a pretty good price there; if I remember right, the unit cost about $250 or so new. D.A.C. Crowell Computer Music Project/School of Music University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu) From analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Wed Apr 7 23:33:12 1993 Received: by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA03661; Wed, 7 Apr 93 23:33:00 -0400 Errors-To: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Sender: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Received: from netcom.netcom.com by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA03656; Wed, 7 Apr 93 23:32:58 -0400 Received: by netcom.netcom.com (5.65/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id AA20946; Wed, 7 Apr 93 20:33:01 -0700 From: metlay@netcom.com (metlay) Message-Id: <9304080333.AA20946@netcom.netcom.com> Subject: Re: yamaha CS01-II To: jciliber@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jon Ciliberto) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 20:33:01 PDT Cc: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Analogue Synth Mailing List) In-Reply-To: ; from "Jon Ciliberto" at Apr 7, 93 3:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: OR >... while i was on the mainland over winter >break, I came upon this highly questionable bit of technology. Its a tiny >littel (2.5 octave, mini casio sized) synth, made by Yamaha, numbered >CS01-II. I couldn't figure out its purpose. You paid $30 for a new CS01-II?! I'll give you $30 for it right now AND pay shipping! The CS01-II is possibly the last analogue synth Yam ever made, a portable strap-on analog beastie with tiny chiclet keys and a surprisingly good sound. Chick Corea soloed with one for one tour in 1983 before he got into the KX-1 MIDI strapon; he speaks at lngth about it in the July 1983 KEYBOARD, and there's a great photo of him honking on a BC1 breath controller while soloing on it. It's NOT a digital synth, to the best of my knowledge, except that there may be a PCM oscillator ala old Casio boards that's switchable with the VCO. I could dig out the product brochure I have on it but that'd be showing off my library.... Oh hell. HERE we are. The CS01-II MicroMonophonic Synthesizer. "Full Synthesizer Performance You Can Take ANywhere." Oooooh. Lots and LOTS of text. You guys don't really want me to type in this whole damn brochure, do you? Well, here are some highlights: Hmmm. AH! It's NOT digital, you silly boy... that's not PCM, it's PWM, pulse width modulation! LFO can go to VCO or VCF, mod wheel controls depth. Footages from 4 to 32 plus white noise (!), tri/saw/square/pulse/PWM choice, PWM speed (HA! separate from main LFO, why couldn't ROLAND do this, the BUMS?!), VCF with freq, rez, and env depth (no kybd tracking, phoo), VCA env depth slider (NOT a gate/EG switch!), ADSR env, built in speaker, breath controller with VCO and/or VCF control, pitch wheel (only bends UP!) and mod wheel (VCO or VCF LFO amt). About 9x7 inches, under 4 lbs. Cute little thang! But weird in comparison to ROland's low-end boxes. How's it sound? -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've been seduced by the Dark Side of the MIDI spec. From analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Wed Apr 7 21:03:39 1993 Received: by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA29375; Wed, 7 Apr 93 21:03:31 -0400 Errors-To: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Sender: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Received: from uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu by quark.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (5.65/3.910213) id AA29369; Wed, 7 Apr 93 21:03:29 -0400 Received: by uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (4.1/Sun690) id AA00772; Wed, 7 Apr 93 15:03:27 HST Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 15:03:24 HST From: Jon Ciliberto To: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: yamaha CS01-II Message-Id: Status: OR Peter Cassidy asks: > Does anyone have any info on the Yamaha CS15 Analog Synth. the name sounds similar, at leats... while i was on the mainland over winter break, I came upon this highly questionable bit of technology. Its a tiny littel (2.5 octave, mini casio sized) synth, made by Yamaha, numbered CS01-II. I couldn't figure out its purpose; it seems new enough looking to be post analog, but the layout is of a classic analog synth. It's monophonic, has no MIDI (nor any other inputs -- except what will be mentioned in a second), and no direct oscillator control. The sound is digital, but the panels controlas are VCO (not DCO). The controls are something like this: Two Pitch Mod Wheels: Bend and LFO (switcahble between VCF and VCO) VCO Section: Glissando, Pitch adjust, LFO rate, Wave (four basic waves and a PCM wave, which is like a multi-wave (i.e., dual ocsillators out of phase) thing -- and which has its own wave rate control. VCF Section: Frequency, Resonance, EG EG Section: EG Rate (which seems the same as EG Rate), Attack, Delay, Sustain, Release All of these controls are sliders. IN addition there are two dials on the far left which relate to the Breath Control. (there is a little 1/8" input for that.) This final element leads me to believe that this thingwas oconstructed to work with one of Yamaha's pre-MIDI breath controllers -- but what a strange synth for suich a thing. I picked it up for $30, and it is apparanlty new. Any comments on this thing? ........................................................................... Jon Ciliberto . jciliber@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu Graduate Assistant . (808) 956-9704 SHAPS Publications Office . Moore 223