Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!gibson From: gibson@unc.UUCP (Bill Gibson) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: Yamaha CX-5 ? Message-ID: <25@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:24:56 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.25 Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:24:56 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 04:44:07 EDT References: <190@telesoft.UUCP> Reply-To: gibson@unc.UUCP (Bill Gibson) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 35 Keywords: bad data or confusion Summary: In article <190@telesoft.UUCP> dar@telesoft.UUCP (David Reisner @shine) writes: > >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 Yamaha computer I've heard of is the CX-5M. If this is the same machine, then the facts are slightly different. The CX-5M has the equivalent of *one DX-9* inside it. The DX-9 is much less powerful than the DX-7, since it has only 4 operators combined in 8 algorithms (compared to the DX-7's 6 operators and 32 algorithms). >Perhaps it is much more difficult to set up sounds, or >perhaps it is not both velocity and pressure sensitive? Since you have a screen to display all the parameters on (which is done with graphics in Yamaha's voicing software), it's easier to set up sounds on the CX-5M than on a DX-9. Also, the DX-9 is *not* velocity- or pressure-sensitive, so I doubt that the hardware in the CX-5M is. >Seems like there is either some catch which I don't know about, or >that is a pretty damn good deal. I think that the former was the situation, especially since the TX-816 (Yamaha's rack-mount set of 8 DX-7's; no Z80 microcomputer involved) sells for about $2600. On the other hand, if this is some new Yamaha product that *does* have 8 DX-7 equivalents in it, it is a good deal; if this is the case, please tell me - I Want One! Bill Gibson gibson@unc ...[akgua,decvax,philabs]!mcnc!unc!gibson