Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!mohan From: mohan@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Sunil Mohan) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: Yamaha CX-5 ? Message-ID: <3684@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:21:26 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3684 Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:21:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 01:49:11 EDT References: <190@telesoft.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 > The Yamaha CX-5 is a cross between a baby home computer and a synthesizer. > It has a typewriter keyboard, is programmable in basic (sigh), and hooks up > to your TV to display text. In addition, it has something like the > equivalent of eight DX-7s inside it. The voice parameters are set, > and notes may be played, by basic programs. The CX-5 can also be > hooked up to many devices via a MIDI interface. In particular, it can > be hooked up to a keyboard which functions as a controller only > (Yamaha makes two). The CX-5M is a Microsoft muC based on an 8-bit muP. It has 8 FM voices, each with 4 operators (as found on the DX-9). However the 8 voices can be independently programmed. I *think*, but am not sure, that these are velocity sensitive. List price is around $470. You can get a s/w cartridge to program the voices, and another which converts the m/c into a MIDI sequencer (each $50). Yes, the muC has built in MIDI interfaces. Yamaha also makes two 4-octave non-touch-sensitive keyboards - small keys (list $100) and normal-sized keys (List $200). KEYBOARD magazine carried a review of the system early this year. -- _ Sunil UUCP: ...{harvard, seismo, ut-sally, sri-iu, ihnp4!packard}!topaz!mohan ARPA: Mohan@RUTGERS