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Crap. I was in the mood for crispy duck. My wife doesn't like the smell but she's out for the evening. I called my favorite local Chinese restaurant - Panda Garden - and am told that they're out of duck! Damn. So, I go to Yelp and check a dozen Chinese restaurants from Carlsbad to Vista to San Marco to Escondido and none of them even have duck on their menus! I found one place in Rancho Bernardo that has duck but not crispy duck and I don't want to drive almost an hour for take-out!
Maybe we don't need 10,000 Mexican food places around here and can get a little more variety without having to drive down to San Diego!

Hi again. After playing with the PB12 and looking at the manuals for both keyboards, I have a couple of questions about how the ribbon controllers work. I'm a long-time, on-and-off CS80 owner so this is important to me.

First, is the physical feel. Both are pretty poor compared to the Yamaha which used a special metal coil suspended over the variable resistance strip and covered by the wonderful "velvet" material. Oh well, can't win them all.

Next is touch mode and pitch bend range. The CS80 is always in what the others call Relative or Auto mode so wherever you first press it is zero. This works fine on both. However, the bend range is very special on the CS80 since it uses linear analog VCOs (Hz/v, not V/Oct). If you touch the left end of the ribbon and slide all the way to the right, it bends up an octave. This is multiplying the oscillator frequency by 2. If you touch the right end first and slide all the way to the left, it bends down infinitely to 0Hz/DC - multiplying the oscillator frequency (not pitch!!!!) by zero. It's a great effect that I can't see how to do with either the ASM or Arturia keyboards. The Hydrasynth can definitely physically do this since the digital oscillators are always linear. But I don't know if the settings allow this. Anyone know a way in their mod matrices to do this?

One, final issue. A great effect on the CS80 is to hold a key/note/chord, then bend it wit the ribbon, and while holding the ribbon with one finger, add a trill by tapping another finger on and off the ribbon to the right of the first finger. The Hydrasynth worked perfectly for this. However, the PB12 appears to ignore multiple fingers pressing on the ribbon. That is a problem! Anyone know a work-around or anyone to contact at Arturia to see if they might add this feature?

One more CS80 feature while I'm here: The CS80 has a great ring-modulator with its own LFO and envelope generator to sweep the LFO. The important detail is that this EG is legato-triggered. That is, it only triggers if a key is pressed while no keys had been pressed - like a paraphonic mode. Do with the ASM or Arturia have a way to trigger an EG this way while other EGs are triggered independently?

Any chance Behringer's CS80 clone might come out this decade and do this right?

Thanks!!

Hi all. I’ve been trying to research the differences between the Waldorf Iridium and Quantum but am getting confused with the different versions. The Quantum Mk2 looks like it came out a couple of years ago and includes a poly-aftertouch keybed. The Iridium appears to have a desktop version and a keyboard version. Looks like there’s a new Mk2 version of that but I’m not sure if that includes a keyboard model. I keep seeing that their synth engines are compatible.

So, what’s the quick comparison of the latest and greatest Iridium and Quantum? Number of voices? Multitimbral? Keybed/aftertouch? Effects?

Thanks!