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looked cool. And you could amplify it, you didn't have to put
microphones on it. The lowest notes had this weird almost non-
pitched sound to them, and the highest notes sounded more like a
Rhodes in a way, but it didn't matter. The CP80 was cool. It also went
out of tune, though not as often as a real piano did, and it wasn't the
lightest thing to move. But if you owned one in L.A. in the early 80's,
you were the business, and that was that.
Since the Motif XS has samples of a Yamaha CP70, that's what this
voice refers to. But sound-wise, there is no difference between the
CP70 and the CP80 – just a difference in the number of keys
CP70B Electric Grand.
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