Yamaha CS80: The Most Iconic Sound Machine of All Time
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- Yamaha CS80: The Most Iconic Sound Machine of All Time
The famous sounds of the Yamaha CS80 - recorded at Greystoke Studio - Dry. As used by Brian Eno, Vangelis, ELO, Michael Jackson.
1977 - 1980. Includes the Ribbon pitch bend & polyphonic after-touch.
Here - demoed by Andy Whitmore at Greystoke Studio, West London.
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Quite possibly the best demo of this glorious synth
wow thank you!
One of the classic old synths I'd still love to own...so many iconic albums made with the CS-80.
Yes - lovely synth but high maintenance!!!!🧑🔧
@@AndyWhitmore no stranger to that world!! ...still have an Oberheim Xpander. ..that needs a good going over.
...and used to have an ARP Pro soloist as well. ...and one of my Ensoniq keyboards was always in the shop having a keyboard replaced.
What a privilege it is to play a real CS-80. This one looks like brand new by the way. Can’t imagine it’s price today.
Kent Spong did an amazing job reconditioning it
Always a pleasure to listen to someone who cannot only afford a vintage synth but can also play it in an adequate way. Sounds gorgeous! 👏
Thanks for the feedback! - It was a journey purchasing this machine!
I’m no stranger to synths, but WOW. What amazes me most about the CS-80 is how distinct it sounds. Most synths make their differences apparent when you actually use them. Most people couldn’t tell most synths apart in a blind test. Certain things might be recognizable like an effect or in some cases the filter. But everything the cs-80 does sounds like a cs-80. The filter and the envelopes together do something so unique that i can’t really put my finger on. Maybe its the layout that lends itself to certain sounds being made, but I heard Vangelis all over this video even though you didn’t play anything explicitly vangelis. Such a unique synth. Too bad there hasn’t really been a true reissue from yamaha
Thanks for your feedback! - It is such an individual synth & so warm & big - I too was hoping for a re-issue!
I had a CS60 (mono version) and it was amazing. I'm not much of a keyboardist but I used to jam with some jazz guys and they were amazed by the sounds I mad come out of it. Sliders and lever allow you to really change things in real time.
I will use the CS80 on my next jam!
The most acoustic sounding synth ever created. It's awesome seeing you enjoy it in all of its glory.
It feels like a real instrument!
Yeah, riiiiiiiiight... 🤣👌
They have acoustic piano physical modeling synths now, check out the morphing in pianoteq
A very good way to appreciate the real power of a synth : without effects. Present synths sounds are drowned in tons of reverb, delay, chorus etc...
Here we can hear all the richness of each sound as if we were present in the room.
Thank you so much, it's a real discovery
Thanks for the positive feedback!!
One of my jam buddies had the CS-60 and his dad had the CS-80 and I got to mess with both! back when they came out !! My bud would leave the CS-60 for months at my house it was an unbelievable machine. I'm more guitar orientated but these have an amazing sound. This guy also had a Crumar that was also unbelievable he left that all the time also. @ 73 I miss those days. still play! Never put it down !!!!!. LOL Z.K.
Yes the synths sounded amazing back then and they still sound amazing today
If Yamaha hadn’t made the hard switch from analog to digital in 1980, the CS80 would’ve led to a dozen more successors like the Prophet 5, Jupiter 8 and OBX. They would’ve engineered out everything which made this model so difficult to maintain and kept everything which made it so incredible.
😀
They also might’ve taken the opportunity to configure the microprocessor to create digital patch memory as in those other models. This one only included the hardwire presets in the front panel and those miniaturized version of the slider set in the upper left-hand corner. That was insufficient.
wow! I'm crying with excitement to see an excellent demo of the CS-80 other than pads drowned in reverb. Thank you very much and congratulations 🙌🙌🙌
YES - After listening to comments - I am recording everything dry & top quality - thanks
Great demo! I'm loving it! I have to settle for the Arturia CS80 VST but it is the closest you can get to the real thing! Bravo on your wonderful find!! 👏 Cheers! KEEP IT UP!!
@@jameshinojosa9445 Thank you
I have loved analog synthesizers for 50 years now, both playing and listening to both music and tv/film soundtracks. For me, the golden era of synth music was between 1977 until 1983; in 1983 everything unfortunately changed when the DX7 was introduced. In those years, i played and loved every type of synth, but, whilst appreciating the importance of the CS80 and its unique sound and legacy, its tonal qualities have never 100% appealed to me. To my ears, it too often has a Koto/Shamisen tone, which i understand gives it its unique sound, but this tone seems to be present on so many bass, lead etc... sounds - it just doesn't do it for me. The Prophet 5, OBX, SEM, SH5, JP4 and JP8 (amongst many!) sound appeals to me more.
Fantastic demo though of a truly unique instrument.
I have to say my favourite synth is the EMS AKS Synthi - which was 1972.
1985 it all changed with dsp, dx7 had no dsp. all logic
I suspect that Asian/Japanese audience prefer more clear and bright timbres than the rest of the World. That's why all Yamaha's including CS and DX series sound so thin in comparison to Moog for example. The same goes to some Korg's and early Rolands.
Congratulations on acquiring such fine instrument. A true beauty
Thanks - Great channel
@@AndyWhitmore Many thanks Andy. More videos coming soon 😁 Hope you will check it out. Thanks for stopping by 🙏🏻
@@AndyWhitmore You may also enjoy this channel which is more of a noise exploration with various synths.
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I just started checking out the CS80's sound today on TH-cam and I am blown away by how dense, thick, and bright its sounds are. Seems way more than any other synth I have heard or played. Congrats on acquiring one. The holy grail. I can only imagine what and how you paid for it!
Yes - it doesn’t do everything but it does a lot of things that none of the other synths do - that’s why I like it
This is a beautiful sounding, iconic synth. It's interesting that it isn't actually that hard to imitate (try softer attack times and add a little instability to the oscilators) yet no one has come with a reasonable copy, not even Yamaha. That speaks about the true spirit of the instrument, the ghost in the machine, if you may.
I think the hard bit to imitate is all the unstable oscillators, VCF and VCAs
I recall this being quite a fun synth to have messed with in the music stores. Nice demo!
It’s a lot of fun to play
Really enjoyed your most professional demonstration. Thanks for you r time to detail this magnificent synthesizer.
Thank you!
Congratulations!. For people like me, with not enough money nor place for such a monster synth, the Cherry Audio GX-80 does the trick
I should get it back early next week from Repair and I will do more videos - thanks
Wow. I don't know the details about these instruments, but I can say that they sound fantastic. Good job !
Thanks!
00:00 - Funky 1 & 2 are the actual presets that Howell used to make the main bassline for the 80's theme. I'm really hoping I get the RAW multitrack for our project! It has the main bassline without the reverb!
Well got some new bass for you - but the CS80 has packed up so I ha to improvise - will get to you soon!🤤
A truly lovely video. Very well produced and played. However, I must take issue with your understanding of the GX-1, the CS-80s direct predecessor. The GX-1 was not an "organ with some synthesizer" mixed in. It was ALL SYNTHESIZER. In fact, it was effectively 3 CS-80s lashed together. It even had programmability via a CS-80-esque mini-panel interface (in a slide-out drawer). And the GX-1 absolutely, positively, make no mistake, had aftertouch. Indeed, the top mini "solo" keyboard even had bebung (sliding the key back and forth triggered modulation). What you may have been thinking of were Yamaha's line of Electone organs, which were indeed electronic organs, only. Yamaha used the same or similar outer case and control panel for the GX-1 as for the Electones. The GX-1 was a mighty beast for its day (c.1976), as more than reflected in its price tag.
You are absolutely correct - GX1 had two 8 note polyphonic synthesisers with no after touch and a top keyboard was monophonic and did have after touch - I know this now but didn’t know this at the time and making the video - apologies
What an iconic machine!
Agreed
Congratulation! Since you have one you should make a comparison video with the Arturia Cs80!
It is on my job list to do a comparison video with the Arturia CS80 - Thanks
Almost. I was going to buy a CS80 in 1981 and then a brand new Jupiter 8 arrived at my local music showroom and totally blew me a way, no competition I'm afraid. The Roland Jupiter 8... the Ferrari of synths! 😎
Love the Jupiter 8- but it’s like comparing 2 different beasts!
The Jupiter 8 is a toy in comparison
Professional demo of iconic synthesizer! Thanks!!! (now i am Your subscriber)
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Great playing and an awesome synth. 'It wasn't cheap', ha ha you think?
🤤
I have a arturia CS80 VST it has a good sound but nothing beats a real machine. Wonderful machine.
Me too it does sound pretty incredible tho
@@terryrollins1973 I use it quite often and do love the sound. As times have been hard I have no physical synthesizers. But there are some great and unique VST synths.
@@jimlemons9231 I got mine a few weeks ago and I'm crazy about it, I'm sitting here playing it right now 🤣 as you said not quite the real thing but still close enough to be a ton of fun 🙌
I will check it out!
I LOVE your synth shelves. I need something like that for my keyboards.
I designed them then booked a carpenter!!
I remember walking into the original “Guitar Center” when it was located across the street from where it is today and hearing that I had just missed a Stevie Wonder jam/demo on a new synth he had been waiting to come in. It was the CS-80. Yamaha’s latest masterpiece, with a price tag somewhere around 8k. Needless to say, they had it pretty much roped off in the center of the store. I’m not sure if it was to preserve Stevie’s fingerprints or to keep us dreamers away. I personally never even dreamed of owning one. Loved the sound but, it was far too pricey for my budget. So, I was content to walk out with a Yamaha CS-5 single oscillator, mono synth. My very first synth. I was happy, and went home to make music with my pals. It would be forty years before I got my hands on a CS-80. An Arturia CS-80 soft synth, that is. Yours is in such wonderful condition, but mine is much kinder on my back.
Congratulations on your acquisition. Have fun.
What fantastic memories - & Stevie Wonder - what a cool guy
@@AndyWhitmore Indeed. I wish I’d have been there about 45 minutes sooner! That would’ve been awesome to see.
Super like for à super moment with many sounds fron my learning time so many year ago.
I send you my compliments and congratulations.
Sincerely your, Aimé
Thanks u
sounds awesome
Thank you!
Amazing synth, put to good use on the first two UK albums in Eddie Jobson's capable hands.
Absolutely
Vangelis was king of yamaha cs 80 RIP
He certainly got a great performance out of his CS80
epic synth... i love the fat sound .. wow epic performances.. i love it all
thanks
Cool playing, and what a sound! However, I believe you are mistaken regarding the sine wave. AFAIK, it's at the same frequency as the other waveforms, it just fills out those frequencies that are cut off by the high pass filter, without adding any top end due to noe having harmonics, giveng you the ability to take advantage of the awesome sounding timbres from the highpass without thinning the sound. The andromeda a6 does the same thing, and also has per voice ring modulators and a ribbon, all directly inspired by the cs80.
You are correct!
wow!! its much more simplex than I realized. like all the best things it does a few things but in a wonderful way
It is actually a lot more complicated- but I am only scratching the surface here!
@@AndyWhitmore Fair enough. But after seeing and hearing it raw in your video I feel like its almost how Don Buchla would have done a transistor organ 😆.. dont get me wrong, its a beastie !
Absolutely beautiful. !!!!!!!!!! Richard Tandy from E.L.O used one of these for the 78 Out of the blue tour. Your very very lucky to have this !!!!
Thanks for your message!
LOL
Yeah, riiiiiiiiight... 🤣👌
Watch On The Run Again on You Tube Tandy was an iconic keybordist at the time!
Having grown up in the 60s and 70s I felt let down by the promise of the Synthesizer. Your constant reference to Stevie is natural he and Zawinul and I guess Jan Hammer and a few others Tangerine and Windy but just weren't enough out there in that vast nomans land between pop/rock simplicity and Academic electronica like Boulez I reckon. So now Snarky Puppy and Louis Cole seem to be breathing new life into it but still at the end of the day it's just another color on the pallet I guess I expected a revolution as a child I mean the Space Race even fizzled. I'd rather sit down at a Steinway D or a Mason & Hamlin or Fazioli I guess.
He lives in Lorain, Ohio about 20mins from me. Used to anyhow. I have two CS-80's and always wondered if he was approachable about having a go on mine.
The Yamaha CS80 was a bit like the moon landings 1969 to ’72: Ahead of their time, and not reached again in the decades since
yes - I'm not sure why they haven't done. re-issue- but the main problem with re-issues is they are too perfect & stable - sound amazing but not the same
@@AndyWhitmore vintage knob here we come
Arturia's virtual clone sounds pretty fine and even emulates most dirt effects.
I know Peter Banks from After the Fire used (and probably uses) one. Just in case you want to hear some more patches. This thing is outstanding, one of a kind.
Any fool knows we never went to The Moon man. And the CS80 actually travelled back in time from an alternative 2019 Los Angeles. A rainy Perma dark Los Angeles with flying cars if you catch my drift...
It looks like mint condition as well as sounding great! I will have to make do with Arturia CS-80 vst 😢
Ah well - at least you'll have a credit balance! - LOL
Iconic.
Beautiful Tone .
First heard the CS-80
On BRIAN ENO song
SPIDER & I .
From Before and After Science.
Still play that song Loud Loud Loud.
CS -80 Dream Sythesizer.
One of the Best.
As the Mini Moog.
Brian Eno - what a genius
The Holy Grail of my musician's bucket list - play one of these before I die.
Yes, I had not played one until I bought one
@@AndyWhitmore OMG how did you even find one for sale? Must've cost you a ton.
I think there's only like 400 or 500 of things things still left "in the wild", as it were. Def an endangered species, LOL!
And there's probably at least a dozen of them collecting dust somewhere in someone's storage unit that they inherited from their deceased grandpa.
I'll just have to be satisfied with digital emulations from VST's like Arturia and Cherry Audio. I also have a Hydrasynth Deluxe which was designed to sound similar to the CS80.
But, you know... there's really only one CS80.
@@vanessajazp6341I was getting my Jupiter 8 serviced at KSR and he mentioned there was a CS80 for sale and a chunk of money later and I have one!!
@@AndyWhitmore I am envious! Very happy for you. Hope you get years of great use from it!!
@@vanessajazp6341 Yes - I am so happy to own this synth & I use it every week!
Always good to start with the sustain...
Well I never did that did I?
You should look up Scott Rodriguez. He has a true stereo mod, a unison mod, an octave lowering mod, etc. Even Uli Behringer had him do some work on his. Scott's personal flagship version is unbelievable to hear.
I will take your advice - thank you
Unison and stereo - sounds amazing
… brilliant! … chuffed for you, Andy! x
Good to hear from you!
@@AndyWhitmore … likewise x.
I wish I had one of these. I have the sound banks for the CS80 on my Montage, but it's a pale comparison to the real deal. Some of those sounds I have used on tracks off a few of my albums. I also have to make do with my ribbon controller on my Hydrasynth.
After playing the real thing - I feel your pain!
I got it on my montage too and cs80 is heavy and expensive
Do you know if there are CS 80 sound banks for the MODX?
@@bertvdlast I looked it up and it is only for the Montage unfortunately.
@@OswaldoVonSchnoobenstein Thanks. What a missed opportunity from Yamaha!👎
Congratulations! Its gorgeous.
Thanks - really enjoying it
Oh wow. I LOVE THIS!!!!
Yes - I'm very happy
I'm envious!!!!!!!
I felt that if I didn’t buy it now I would never get one!
Wasn't cheap? Must be the understatement of the year! I missed purchasing one for peanuts in the 90's (didn't actually want one then) and then thought again about purchasing one about 7 yrs ago but just about soiled myself at the prices they were going for. (but hey I was never good at that type of investing as I sold my Moog Rogue for £75 and swapped my Minimoog for a Poly 61 - and don't even ask what I did with my hammond C3 and Hohner Clav 😞!)
Yes an understatement - but definitely worth it - it sounds so organic! Yes I made the mistake of selling a clavinet for £90 - but quickly bought another one for £60 - back in the 80s - those were the days!
Got my sub straight away. Congratulations on getting one of the most prized synths of all time. Wish I could afford one, I ended up with what is called the poor man's CS80, the SK30 which doesn't really come close to the expression and control you can get out of the real thing. I look forward to seeing and hearing more from your use of it.
Thanks - I'm going to do a famous cs80 riffs & CS80 through midi
@@AndyWhitmore I'm impatiently waiting, lol
@@RoomAtTheTopStudio cool - give me a couple of weeks!
I had a CS70M back in the early 90's but it got stolen when I left it in a parked car!! Oh well! To be honest I never really understood how to program it, as I had previously been using Yamaha DX synths.
@@GlenJDiamond Sorry for your loss. There must have been at least two people involved in stealing it from your car as the CS70M is supposed to be around the same weight as the SK30 as I think they are in the same casing.
10:00. That sounds just like a sound I heard in music and even some TV a bit in the early 1980s. lol
It’s so 80s
Cool Performanc my friend. Nice Sound and Playing. Have a good day and weekend. Grettings Heinz from Germany
Thanks for your feedback
Fantastic! 😍
thank you
That's awesome Andy
Thanks- keep well!
Polyphonic (channel) aftertouch for that vintage of synth is quite uncommon. And I don't care what anyone says, but there is absolutely nothing in software emulation that sounds as gritty and as real as this hardware behemoth in person. Pure bestiality.
I absolutely agree
You can't put a price on perfection
the synth is good too!!
One CS80 in every home in every room
absolutely!
Insane !!!!!!
Yes
I have never heard the cs 80 like a disco funk machine, vangelis knew this instrument.
Yes- always try to be different!!
I remember Steve Porcaro using one on the Toto IV tour
Steve Porcaro was a big influence on my playing!
Now I want one......
Thanks
Could you demo the bass line from the 1980 Doctor Who theme? There’s a video from the early 80’s of Peter Howell using a CS-80 and some other gear to make that version of the Who theme.
Almost all the incidental music in Doctor Who in the 1980s was done on the CS-80!
Great idea - give me a few weeks & I'll do it! - Thanks - Andy
@@AndyWhitmore AWESOME!!
@@doomguy1001 cool
very nice man. i have the deckards dream, but not the same exactly. i love how snappy the envelopes can be
Yes- the synth feels natural and tight!
Esses teclados revolucionaram os anos 70 e 80.
Yes thanks
In Malta in 1978 i saw one for sale brand new and it was about £m5000! Which was a lot of money those days!
I so dont know why I didnt buy one of these years ago!
Verily a Funky unit indeed!
Funky like a real instruments
@@AndyWhitmore Fuck yea!!!
Unreal machine. But my god you will need James Walker at Synth repair services on speed dial for servicing. My CS70M was needy and that is nowhere near as complex.
No poly synth is as expressive (except a GX1) and the ring modulator is something to behold.
It's what stopped me buying a cs80 earlier!
Have you recorded any of your performances where you (a) demonstrate technique on the instrument??
more videos coming - will note your comment
Mean Machine ❤
oh yes!
I used to goof ‘round with my old synth for hours. My girlfriend said that most of it sounded like chicken robot fartz. She was right of course…. But only vintage gear freaks would understand how much FUN it is.
Yes - I did a session today - 3 overdubs of CS80 - & I get paid!!!
My step dad had what I think was the version before that, had the same velvet stripa cross it with a double keyboard set up, he had the matching yamaha version of a leslie, it was a groovy keyboard back in the late 70;s early 80's wish it was still around my house
Sounds good - any photos?
@@AndyWhitmore No,but then again back then taking pictures cost money lol not like today. They had a band and I used to help haul all that stuff around. Never thought I would end up making music my full time job back in those days....strange how things work out
@@BillyBlaze7 Checked your YT & subscribed - you have good material out there!
@@AndyWhitmore Thanks Andy, I appreciate that. I retired from live shows after around 3 decades of it, but I was smart enough to build me a home studio and start doing full production work which is a ton of fun. I just picked up a Korg Minilogue XD and a Yamaha MX49 for the studio this year, im no keyboard player, but I can hunt n peck enough to add spice to my tracks lol
A good investment - will serve you well!
Is this the synth used by Steve porcaro on Rosanna and Africa?🤔
Yes!!
Thank you
Мне нравиться такой стиль игры.Обажаю всякие синтезаторы.
Thank u
7:13! that sound was cute and funny! :)
Yep
I had a crazy dream that I found one of these in the back of a Country Kitchen and I turned it on but it started smoking and didn't make any noise. It was so odd
I had a dream that it worked perfectly for a year!!! lol - then I woke up! Thanks for watching - 😃👍😎
The father of the Hydrasynth and Alesis Andromeda!
And the son of the Yamaha GX1!
Actually the CS-80 from what I've heard came out a couple years earlier than when you said it did.
u r right - Introduced between 1976 and 1977, it wasn't until 1982
Yeah I heard or saw in another video that the CS-80 came out in '76, so its a Bicentennial synth, it's a beautiful synth, but oh shit that's a synth that's anything but accessible, in terms of simplicity and portability. @@AndyWhitmore
Nice one. I have one. The serial number is 1003. I think the serial number started from 1000. So this mean I have third one manufactured.
My S/N is 1452 - making it the 452 made of a run of around 700 - has yours had many parts replaced? Mine was totally overhauled!
I really love Poly aftertouch, and would love to try the cs80.. its a dream.. i have 3 synths and 1 midi keyboard with poly AF.. the ensoniq VFX and EPS16+, Gem S3 Turbo and the midikeyboard Elka mk77..
Have you played any of these boards and if so how does the aftertouch compare?
I have not played any of those keyboards I’m fraid - but I am used after tax and this is very different
Darn it. I kinda knew that was the case, although i really wanted that it wouldnt be so expensive to get good poly aftertouch. Have you tried any other poly aftertouch keyboard and how do think it compares?
Sick
agreed
ME GUSTA SU SONIDO DE HUA HUA VERY GOOD EN INGLES HUASTECO SALUDOS DESDE DEL SUR DE TAMAULIPAS MÉXICO DLBEDIGA
Thank you
🤩 wow
Thanks!
Looks like a couple of mods were done, to wit, the small panel, on the main panel, at the far left. Function?
The factory mod left of rhythm strip is the midi which is a great addition- no after touch but u can play sequences and mess with the sound live- video to follow
Sounds wonderful thankyou. I bought one of these second hand in the 90s I think from the London Synthesizer Centre near Euston Station. The first shop that really introduced the synthesizer into the UK. Nearly lost it on the train as the fight case (which was akin to a huge coffin on wheels) made a bolt for the carriage door near Crewe. It was so heavy in it's case it damaged the back of the estate taxi which took me to the station adding to the cost. Bought it and used it mainly for piano practice which now seems an absurd waste. Once had lugged it upstairs it sure wasn't moving again lol. £1900 in those days and sold it for a lot less. In an era when keyboards of this stature were not regarded with the esteem they are today. Then the oscillators would drift and need a specialist to correct, but none to be found outside of London. Has this been solved or an ongoing issue for your model? Now have modern boards but if still had this and some other top synthesizers owned and later traded from that era, would sure be quids in. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Nice story and what a change in the values - takes 1 hour to warm up then stays in tune- I’ll let u know how I get on with it - no issues so far!
I remember seeing one demoed at the London Synthesizer Centre when they first came out - they wouldn’t have let me near it as I was a pennyless teenager at the time. The CS80 has always been my dream synth - not that I’d actually want to own one now due to the downsides (cost, weight, responsibility, maintaining it, etc). I have a Hydrasynth which scratches my CS80 itch considerably, but if Behringer actually deliver on their planned clone version, I will be very interested!
@@PhilW222 Will be interesting to see if Behringer do deliver, will they recreate the user memory under the flap that uses a replica using mini sliders rather than electronic memory that then came in on Jupiter 8 etc. My CS80 was super reliable apart from the detune problem. I owned a Rhodes (ARP) Chroma bought from Argents after that which broke in no time but also super costly now. Unlike the Yamaha you'd surely need to be skilled with electronic repair to make that a viable purchase. The London Synthesizer Centre is still going in Manchester under the Chase brand. Sadly only cheap electronic pianos rather than the Oberheims, Polymoogs, Arp Quadras etc that used to regularly be on display.
@@D76-z2h The LSC and Argents were regular haunts of mine back in the late 70s/80s when I worked in London. My guess is that Behringer will look to do the user memories as electronic presets rather than the mini sliders. It would be nice to have some onboard effects like delay and a good reverb. Maybe the ability to split the keyboard, arpeggiator, etc? There are definitely a few enhancements I would like to see without messing with the core engine.
Yeah! And pretty heavy too to use for gigs! About 200lbs if I'm right 🤔
In its day, the CS was no doubts amazing, there is no argument to be made on that one. But most "iconic of all time"? That statement I would strongly challenge. The true power of the CS-80 wasn't so much the sound generation possibilities, because lots of other synths can create very similar sounds, but rather the live performance capabilities, which for the time nothing else could touch.
As a playing instrument - it’s very difficult to compare to the CS80 - - although in recording on tracks the Jupiter 8 is amazing
awesome, just subbed.
Just a quick fyi, the 8th voice card will only play if you're holding down another note. not sure if you're midi mod changes that or not but I just wanted to point it out. cheers!
Thanks for the sub - I didn't know this!
@@AndyWhitmore they even went as far as to emulate that voice allocation on the deckards dream. Pretty interesting way to deal with polyphony imo.
All synths should come with a ribbon controller…
They really should!!
Are these iconic sounds imported in these New boards these days?
on what synth?
I was just wondering if maybe its incorporated into the Motif series
I just heard they are only available on the Montage.
@@bertvdlast.. thats kool then....I'm a die hard fan of the Motif, I haven't feel the Montage yet but for what I've seen, its a Monster Board.....maybe one day I'll consider it
I think it will be silly to add a huge value for old synth as the music styles have changed quite dramatically in todays date and climax.
These synths are basically becoming antiques to own, but to add in todays composition, I wouldn’t bother keeping them. Fairlight cmc overshadow med many synths fir the beginning of the 80’s
Fair enough!
I don't think the value of an instrument has anything to do with the latest music styles. Fine instruments will always be in demand, and at a premium price.
It certainly is an antique, and that makes it difficult to incorporate in today's computer-centric compositions, but the expressivisity of the CS-80 is absolutely unmatched in any keyboard instrument.
Today’s styles are based on plastic sounding, unispiring and lackluster synth sounds. Why not break the mold?
I have Maschine in my computer and I truly get why everyone ends up sounding just like everyone else. However the happiest I am playing with it is when I make my own sounds from scratch. That's what synthesizers are for.
You're not kidding when you say it was a lot of money, these things are VERY pricey. Did Kent Spong have anything to do with this unit? I know he is the CS man, he services my synths and always does a great job, I think his mate Richard Lawson sells these too. What is that after factory modification to the far left of the keyboard, aluminium panel with a toggle switch and red button, in line with the Pitch Ribbon?
You are correct. Kent Spong serviced about 8 of my synths(great job) and brokered the sale on this beautiful CS80! The factory mod is a midi - which works very nicely- I will do a video on the CS80 through midi!
@@AndyWhitmore That's a nice mod, MIDI on the 80 makes a HUGE difference, nice to see your demo too.
With the Jupiter 8 it's the sound of Mickael Jackson Thriller album
Thriller album was Jup 8, Pr5, Mini Moog & Synclavier ( amongst others)
used by Pink Floyd? which song?
I was advised (by my assistant who was doing the research), that Pink Floyd used this synth - but on further research - there is no evidence they used it on their albums - I have tweaked the description accordingly - thanks for the comment.
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Iove old synths and have some, not that expensive, but i have a korg poly 800, a DW 6000 and a DW 8000 ...Someday the caps will fail....i bought the mac Au plug in for Apples Logic pro and it sounds exactly the same, like Your Demo Sounds here, for 79 Euro....what did U pay for Your CS 80?
dam - I paid €179! - could've saved €100! lol
Black Corp has the Deckard's Dream (MPE) then working on firmware for connecting two CS80 clone units I've heard. Then buy a Rachael ring module and an MPE+ Osmose controller (far more advanced than the CS80), I have (2) Osmose units in a double manual with Oberheim OB-X8m & Iridium module (MPE) and still probably way cheaper than the CS80. So many modern options so dare I suggest beat the CS80 and all with digital conveniences. I like it but can't justify it because there's so much else available that go way beyond the limits of the past. Odd that it's only just now becoming available at affordable prices.
Of course there are so many great ways to get great sounds- I just like everything about this synth - including it’s look! It plays very nicely and is essentially a live synth rather than a synth to be set up and recorded
Tudo de moderno que existe na mídia instrumental de hoje é genérico dessas máquinas do passado.
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Ah man. to bad I sold mine years ago when it was still "cheap". Regret forever.
I regret not buying years ago when they were cheap - but the way I see it - they are only going to get rarer
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I had fun playing piano.
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The GX1 was not "an organ with a synth on top"
Yes I know that now!