Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site telesoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!telesoft!dar From: dar@telesoft.UUCP (David Reisner @shine) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Yamaha CX-5 ? Message-ID: <190@telesoft.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 01:27:02 EDT Article-I.D.: telesoft.190 Posted: Thu Sep 12 01:27:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 03:37:35 EDT Organization: TeleSoft, SanDiego CA Lines: 35 Hello, Netfolk. If I have this straight... 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). Does anyone out there have any experience with the CX-5? It seems to me to be much more powerful than the DX-7, and I'm wondering what the downside is. Perhaps it is much more difficult to set up sounds, or perhaps it is not both velocity and pressure sensitive? The real kicker here is that a local (San Diego) music store is selling the CX-5 with a keyboard controller for less than $1000! Seems like there is either some catch which I don't know about, or that is a pretty damn good deal. Now, if this thing turns about to be decent, and if it is perhaps a little harder to program, I'd be inclined to write a nice front end for the CX-5 in C and run it on an Amiga. THAT would be cute. Do I hear the voice of experience out there somewhere? -David sdcsvax!telesoft!dar "If you get confused, just listen to the music play."