Retro midi machine!

[Paul Battersby]

That Cs1x has some nice sounds. The sounds remind me of some of the custom DX7II patches I have. Maybe not a co-incidence since they're both from Yamaha. Lately I've been sampling some of the custom sounds and making sfz instruments for the day when my DX7II finally dies and the sounds would otherwise be lost to me forever. Some of my sounds seem to need velocity layers, some don't even respond to key velocity at all (easy to sample those), some need careful looping and a few need chromatic sampling, but it's still far easier than dealing with orchestral instruments!