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Superbobus

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  • Birthday 01/19/2022

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  1. DX7 was introduced in 1983. Toto IV was released in 1982. Did they have a prototype?
  2. I'm terrible at knowing which synth belongs to what recording, but if you ask me, Chaka's "Through the Fire" has tons of DX7. If that's so, I sincerely proclaim that one to be the most soulful DX7 recording ever.
  3. For all you guys owning the greatest electric piano of all times: The Fender Rhodes super site! Although I would like to have a nice Wurli too! And for all yammies out here: Yamaha synth
  4. CHEERS!!! Next round is on me. I owe you guys.
  5. THANX A LOT, CASEY!!! We are on a roll! The thing is, apart from the earlier mentioned sound canvas, I have never ever worked with MIDI so for me the question was not how, but WHERE. Thank you so much! Dan, I still haven't figured out who will get the beer... You were right about performance but Yammy wants me to go the zone way.
  6. Sorry guys, I'm getting more and more confused. I can choose a patch in performance mode, say external A1 and program around, assign parts to MIDI channels, but... if I change to patch A2 the interface will lose what I assigned to A1. Dan, I searched around in performance mode but I can't find no other way but the split, 4zone and layer possibilities. I understand the Logic setup but this synth makes me MAD! Here are some more questions. How do I set the part layer off, whatever that means. Where is zone A? (Casey, you wrote that about your S80, right?) I just can't seem to find out how to set up something like 16 sounds I can send on 16 channels, one at a time, and receive 16 channels back, all at the same time. On my old SC55 this was a piece of cake but the sounds in there do suck. What I need is a step-by-step guide, from level zero, how I can reach this goal.I will go to the links but for now I have square eyes watching the screen. Hopefully the audio setup for Logic is easier. Sorry guys, if I'm putting your patience to a test.
  7. Piano, USB1, Ch 1 Bass, USB1, Ch 2 Guitar, USB1, Ch 3 Drums, USB1, Ch 10 Hi Dan, back again. It's not giving me problems. I was just wondering which mode to use, split, 4zone or layer. The CS6x is NOT XG/GM compatible when there's no XG plugin board installed. I'm not sad about that at all. The only thing was how to get piano at ch 1, bass at ch 2 and I think the easiest way is to make a lower piano part and the same piano part for upper register (split mode). I thought I had to use layer but that gave me strange results. Tomorrow I'm setting things up completely. I guess it will work without no further problems. Thanx everybody for your help and tips, I really appreciate it.
  8. You mean like, selecting split or 4zone and adjusting the same sound to all keys and not working in the layer mode. I guess that's the thing that's going wrong now. Thanx for the tips. I'm glad things are starting to work.
  9. I start with a 4 zone performance in master keyboard mode. In the master Utility mode I set Midi receive channels to "omni" so all the channels are received, and transmit to channel 1. Whoa, wait a minute. Does this mean I can't play the entire keyboard with the same sound all over it? Now something that you'll notice is that some voices don't have the depth/effects they had in voice mode. This is because performances have their own 5 band EQ settings that affect the sound in Perf mode, and only 1 voice can have insert effects in Perf mode (yeah, it's the thing everybody hates about this synth, Why Yammy, Why?). I noticed that before, exactly my thoughts. This really bites wind. Thanx for your tips. I'm so glad the whole thing is working so it's time to experiment.
  10. OK, finally we're on a roll! CS6x is sending data to my mac, yeeeeehaaaaa! I have only one more question for you CS6x and S80 owners. Can you give me a step by step guide of how to send 16 separate MIDI channels. I know the CS6x isn't XG compatible, I don't need gunshots and helicopters but is there a way to send one piano sound on part 1, one moog bass sound on channel 2 etc. The only thing I read in the manual is about split, 4zone and layer and I don't nedd that yet. Thanx for your ideas.
  11. Whoops, so at least I'm not the only one who forgor about the introduction thread. I also started posting like hell. My name is Bob (superBOBus became a nickname after a hilarious drinking party in the beautiful city of Maastricht, Holland) and I live in The Hague, Holland. Probably most of you guys know the name of The Hague because of the annual North Sea Jazz Festival, a fantastic three-day party where the Dutch (and some Belgians, Germans, French and probably more) can see some great jazz and world/latin/fusion/funk/r&b/rap/rock(!)/boogaloo musicians/bands from all over the world. It's also the city of the Dutch government and it's close to the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, where NOT ALL ladies are sitting behind windows, as some guy in Boston (I was there in '93) was thinking. So far a little bit of Holland. I don't owe, as some of you guys, owe a lot of synths and I definitely don't have four(!) Tritons... First of all, I don't have the money for that. Second, I love small setups. My setup: - a 1980 Rhodes 54 connected to a Line6 POD and Crybaby bass wah, - a Yamaha CS6x silver synth beast. I use the complete setup mostly in an 18 piece(!) pop band, playing at big parties. The Rhodes I like to use also for jazz gigs. In my opinion there's NOTHING like a Rhodes piano, ehhh, almost nothing. My steady gig is at the show Saturday Night Fever, three, four times a week so there's plenty space for other gigs. OK, gotta hit the hay. Mac is gonna sleep too. See ya guys and girls later on the www!
  12. Thanx! I'm gonna try your suggestions ASAP. I really think the CS6x and the S80 are some freakin' great instruments. Too bad the CS6x is already out of production.
  13. Hi folks! I used my Yamaha CS6x for live performance only. Really great synth and lots of bang for your buck but now I want to get this thing to communicate through MIDI and I don't know sh*t about that. I just know that I have to connect midi-out to midi-in of the interface (Emagic MT4) and vice versa. The main problem is - and these Yamaha manuals do suck because it's totally unclear how to do this - that I have to, sort of, make the thing understand that it has to transmit a certain sound using the transmit channel I want. The manual is babbling about something with parts. What does this mean? Told ya I don't know sh*t about MIDI. S80 owners, please do answer too because I have the impression that this one is using some of the same things as the CS6x. Crazy, my old sound canvas never had problems like this. And my crappy PC always crashed but worked with midi. Now I have a great synth, a great mac, no more crashing but my midi doesn't work...
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