Yamaha CS80 - Why Is It Worth So Much?
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- The #Yamaha #CS80 The big Mumma Analog Polyphonic #Synthesizer!
Cheers to RAK recording studio for letting me jam on this beast so much ha.
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Released in the 70's and still sounds like the future of music.
open the synth and see what is inside and you understand that is not a cheap synth when it was released and even less more a synth that has to be worken on often in maintenance
Without effects it doesn’t really sound good on its own.
The onboard effects you mean? @@arjanpetersen
70s were and still are the future
I got so nervous watching that beast shake on its stand when Sam keeps slamming and slapping it.
"I moved her like a bitch"
😂
Gyrbae wait are you from finland?
@@ozule1782 tortillalle
@@ozule1782 perkele
best video of this keyboard ... as a jazz musician who is sampled based , this helped me alot understanding this "Yamaha CS80" is the top keyboard i want now !!!!!
My first introduction to music was piano lessons at Yamaha Music School in 1977, which was attached to their local piano showroom. I remember the first day the synthesizers appeared, all Yamahas of course, on stands next to the Yamaha grand pianos. I had never seen a keyboard synth before, they seemed so exotic. We were encouraged to experiment with them before and after classes. They seemed fun, but because they only used presets, and those presets were all named after traditional instruments WHICH THEY SOUNDED NOTHING LIKE, I was actually very disappointed at first. It would still be a loooong time before I learned to appreciate electronic music, and now I really kick myself for not identifying the potential and getting in on the basement floor. The industry really set stupid expectations by trying to market these instruments as electronic proxies of traditional instruments. I guess the point is I remember those Yamaha buttons and sliders very well, I goofed off for many hours with them and I can still remember what they felt like, I just wish I realized what I was playing with at the time.
I once visited a storage area in the basement of a former factory. It had lots of old synthesisers on display on shelves, but only a few that were plugged in for people to play on a day it was open to the public. There was a Roland Juno 6 or 60 on which I played the Scarface tune, but that was almost it. They did not have a CS 80 though, because this synthesiser was not mass produced. By the way I could hear the aging sound of the analog circuits whilst playing that Juno synth, especially when it came to ADSR and volume control. Ah yes, the magic of analog synths that need to be maintained to be optimal
I am Van-jealous.
LOL
Hahaha gold Alex. Love the vids btw thought I subscribed. I have now!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Oh wow, thanks Sam!
LOL
rofl xD
This is the first time Sam has made me legitimately nervous. Seeing that mythical giant beast sway on a casio stand is not a sight for the faint of heart.
try carrying one up stairs by yourself :)
@@slammah2012 carrying the CS50 already requires 2 guys (and it still was heavy) , I think you need 3 or 4 guys for this haha!
Honestly I was worried when he was leaning on it - if it fell off it probably would fall right through the ground
Seriously. I was thinking the same thing as it's rocking around and he's practically laying on it slopping his meathooks all over it, haha. I say this with a smile as I abolutely love his content. He's a mad genius and a brilliant musician and engineer!
Seth...you speak sooth :-)
I had to double check this video is from 2019. Guy looks like he is straight from the 90's and he is playing synth from the 70's.
Phrea Spirit best of two worlds
Yo, Behringer, how about a $500 version?
Behringer is working on one!!!!!!
@@verschwender1919 no way?????????
@@lorenzodalba6962 Yes! They already have published some pictures about it. I'm really excited about it!
Yea, afaik its called "DS-80" and they actually have the polyphonic aftertouch keyboard done already.
@@evil_in_your_closet Can't wait the release!!!
I've restored one of these... one of the most difficult synths to keep working, ESPECIALLY when you are 'working' on it, thanks to the super small gauge wiring used throughout, and with aging, the soldered ends and their flux residue have eaten at the copper strands, making them separate if you look at them too hard! Oh, so many wires broken!!!!
Argh.. I still remember the pain of that repair/restoration!
Love the channel, keep up the fantastic work!
Never thought an Extra from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome would know so much about synthesizers. Nice man!
Pretty sure you just broke my face and split my sides.🤣😂😃. However Believe it or not the guys brilliant.
Didn't he get a boomarang in the head by the mental kid? Grrr grrr grrr
hahahaha
It totally makes sense if you think about it
I think that jacket came from a jihadist that has gone on to paradise.
I was responsible for one of those things when I worked for Zappa back in the '70s. We picked it up in Germany. I took a class in how to tune it there. Was I sorry we he ditched it for a Profit 5? Hell no! That thing weighed a ton. It was the 2nd heaviest keyboard we had after the Hammond B3.
The prophet 5 is the perfect balance between size and sound :3
You never fuckin worked for Zappa, Willy
@@larsthorsmith8369 Lars, you're a sad little man. I worked for him between '77 - '80. My name is listed on a web page that lists all the people who worked for Frank and you can even see me standing next to Tommy Mars' keyboard rig in Baby Snakes. (I gave Frank a police car that did sound FX). Sorry you're such a looser Larssie.
@William Harrington sorry. It was a -bad -joke. Which - as your work involvement with Zappa is true - should not really provoke you to call me, whom you dont know, such things. But then again, I had it coming
@@UrbanElectronicMusic what I dont get is that your self esteem is obviously so small that you can let a complete stranger put you down and use fowl words to him.
I owned a CS-60 for many years. It is the baby brother of the 80. Still had poly aftertouch and the ribbon controller. Sounded fantastic!
My fave thing was the ring mod and those great "pull down" pots. Still the most expressive synth I ever
Played!
That may be the best CS80 demo I’ve ever heard. Bravo!
it's one of the worst since he just make a little noise,this is the synth of TOTO ..VANGELIS and lots of other great artists that have recorded amazing songs ,non crappy noises.
@@margix1172 you make little crappy noises !! han !!
@@margix1172 I don't love this guy, but the moment he starts playing I appreciate him. You are correct, Toto and Vangelis wrote music with this synth. Vangelis wrote amazing music with it. Also, this guy isn't recording music with it. He is trying one out that he found in a corner. What's cool about this guy, and the rest of his videos, is that he isn't mimic'ing those sounds. The things he plays, keep in mind he is noodling, are pretty interesting and he drew great sounds out of the CS80 that you don't typically hear from this synth.
@@margix1172 Watch the rest of the channel. You are wrong. Toto....ha freakin ha!
This is a professional instrument intended for stage use, it's built to take a bit of a beating on tour. Sam knows what hes doing and it always looks much more dramatic on video than it actually is.
Give the guy a break and just enjoy watching!!
it's all good, but it made me more anxious than the last decade of horror movies combined..
I heard it was the most difficult of ANY synth to repair
They are so expensive because Vangelis owns 95% of all the existing working ones.
Where’s your evidence on this.....
@@drorlando2416 its been rumoured he sets presets and then gets another one for different presets.
I have an existing working one. In fact, it's never had any tuning stability problems or any problem at all aside from 2 front panel bulbs burning out.
Victor Barnes ...Do you want to sell it...??
@@drorlando2416 If the price is right and you pick it up in New Jersey, USA.
Wow that masterpiece-of-a-synth is beyond heavenly genius. My kidney wouldnt even be able to pay for half of the price
Really nice sounds, thanks for actually playing it instead of babying it!
You always hear about the CS-80's lush pads and atmospheric sounds, but man this beast can output some seriously dirty low end!
The greatest synthesizer to ever be conceived and you play it like you built it. Amazing.
You just ripped us through a time loop back to the 80's. It was awesome.
I admire the way you test drive these classic synths. It's like watching Guy Martin take a Lamborghini Countach from the early 80's, and compete in the world downhill mountain bike championships.
I would like to buy an hours worth of this CS-80 performance! Dear Lord, that was a-mazing!!
THIS is how to demo a CS80. Beautiful job matey! ❤🎹
That synth is a beast! It’s really got a unique sound to it, maybe it’s that additive sinewave that makes it different from most polysynths.
Omg, what a massive sound with so much articulation. I'm speechless.
That sounded amazing! You can really place it at the heart of all those historic sounds.
God, I love the sounds it makes. Something so full and strong about them.
Sounds detuned ..
I don't...
@@theeltea then fuck off
100kg lol
6:49 wow, never heard it this fierce. nice.
This synth was literally 4 decades ahead of it's time
It was ahead of its time, but I would also say most people joining the analogue party now are four decades behind Vangelis, Jarre, Ciani, Tomita, Carlos, et. al. There's nothing being done in pre-sequnced electronica today that those pioneers didn't do better by hand.
@@thecritic2084 I see the point in that, but I'd beg to differ. Listen to this song that only uses the Moog IIIP and tell me if you could imagine a song like this existing in 1969 th-cam.com/video/lC1tovSCHeM/w-d-xo.html
Hence the difference of vintage synthesisers in the hands of modern composers as compared to forerunner composers
@@Jaesee But this is all boring sequenced EDM that sounds like EDM of the last 2-3 decades. It doesn't do anything texturally or tonally that hadn't been done by Tomita, Vangelis, Jarre and Carlos, who was Bob Moog's research assistant, in 73-76. And it's just beep boop beat beat... Listen to Spiral or Snowflakes in quadraphonic... or Ciani on the Buchla... It'll blow your mind. I mean what this guy is doing without actually "playing" anything but using preprogrammed arps, is primitive and flat sounding.
@@thecritic2084 Okay, that's entirely your own biased opinion of music and doesn't speak to the creative merit that exists in the song the artist wrote, just your opinion of that style
@@Jaesee Im biased by a better understanding of music history? This guy has no sense of composition it's just random crap layered on top of a beat. I mean its your loss if you don't want to listen to people who pushed these same instruments farther than this tinkerer trying to step into Kraftwerk's shoes 35 years after the fact... and not half as well.
Yep, amazing as usual. Don't forget Keith Emerson and Eddie Jobson were also both users of this amazing beast when it came out. And to think this one actually has a MIDI upgrade!
Kate Bush too
I've never seen one in real life but I'd love to one day. This thing is a monster. I was a bit worried we were going to get furbies hacked onto it but instead we got a sweet little jam session. Great stuff.
😂 furbies hacked onto it
First time i’ve heard a CS-80 properly played full on madness!
Honestly I love just listening to the jam session. Just trying out different sounds, and the slow beat. Its so good!!
I’ve played and listened to a lot of synths, but hadn’t heard a CS-80 be ‘showcased’ before. This is fr the best sounding and most dynamic synth I’ve ever heard.
When I first read about the price tag, as always, being cynical, I thought it was simply a supply & demand issue. I didn’t expect anything that stood out immensely. I did not expect to get this blown away.
3:40 absolutely smooth analog ribbon pitch control! Not a whisper of the stepping you'd hear on almost any modern microprocessor-controlled UI.
The yc45d has the same strip and can be had for peanuts these days.
Holy cow that sounds amazing. Has to be the best sounding poly ever
My Roland V-Synth sounds at least as good.
pcuimac
a r e y o u s u r e a b o u t t h a t?
stu9000 nope
@@SPAZZOID100 It sure kicks the shit out of the Prophet 5
6:49 That drum beat with the dark ambiance was when I fell in love.
I just love your work, attitude, and style. It's a very refreshing approach to typical reviews and creations.
Holy shit it sounds so good so warm like pissing in a pool
the accuracy
That was..m strangely accurate
Wow. I think I will pass on the pool party at your house.
sounds so good as a squirt
Hahahahhahahahaha
I can't believe this synth was made in the '70s... It sounds great!
If i got my hands on one of these, i'd play the hell out of it! I didn't even know the CS80 could sound like this, since almost every CS80 demo uses vangelis presets.
Goosebumps, your demo is amazing. The sounds are so cool and atmospheric. By the way your collab with Hainbach was great.
That's a absolute unit
an*
What about the Yamaha?
LMAO.
Best playing i heard from LMNC so far, he really knew how to make this synth sing! And boy is it a beaut
Keyboards are meant to be played not masturbated🎹
The dream synth. Please be gentle with it !!! And the low end on this... So "woaw" I'm not sure it's legal.
I can feel the warm glow flowing from the speakers while flying through space.
Great sound, great keys! Hello from the audiofund from Ukraine! in the history of synthesizer construction in the USSR, there was nothing of the kind, our technology was very far behind foreign, and when in Japan and other countries there were already such great synthesizers, in the USSR they were just starting to make simple keys on factories for the general consumer. In some devices you can find similar ideas, for example, switchable analog presets. There are interesting and great sounding devices among our devices, but the fact that it was then that abroad abroad still looks like a fantasy. It’s very ironic when I have on my desk a huge electroorgan over 25kg weight made by the USSR and a small yamaha dx100, released in the same year.
Don't knock Russian synths. Polivoks are highly rated by many in the West and I can hear why.
Never fails to amaze me. Even after all those decades.
Nice jamming on the CS80! I've always wanted one of those expensive beasts for their coveted sounds.
6:50, This is why the CS-80 is my dream synth, despite all its issues, it would totally be worth it.
Get a Behringer DeepMind, sounds pretty close, besides they'll be releasing the CS-80 clone soon, along with the PPG Wave and VCS3.
Good Lord, that tone is amazing! I listen to this and remember why it’s my favorite synth ever. I think it was also used on The Shining and everything Toto did.
Saw this in 1978. It retailed for 8K in LA at the time.
Which equals about 1000000 dollars after inflation
damn i never knew that mini preset panel existed ! never seen anyone open it
It's absolutely insane they even bothered doing it if that was the only way. Such an over engineered nightmare of a great sounding synth.
it comes from thier Electone organs, they had the same preset board concept...
@@DigitalMusicXpress exactly. That's also the reason the E-70 sounds pretty mind blowing for an organ. It's related to the CS-80 more than many think. They're easy to find but large and heavy.
@@jakspin - I've got the E75 here, it's mind-blowing but so heavy I can't even move it an inch. What a fabulous instrument though, playing it is pure heaven.
@@backmaskmetal It's not insane given it's a performance (live) synth and quick recall of user-presets would be hard to achieve by any other method at the time.
Hey, treat that Stradivarius with some respect!
Would love to see a CS-80 in person someday. The plug-in versions are pretty good but having it right there in all its glory has to be pure synth heaven.
thisguy sounds all London until he says 'aftertouch' and his northern roots are exposed!
Ann Other eagle ears
It’s the east anglia childhood with northern parents
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER If you're anything like me, with a mishmash North/South 'Barftub/Bafftub' accent then I reckon you've most likely physically recoiled in horror as the word 'plarstic' has fell out of your gob...
It's so hard to hide. No matter how much a Northern can convert to sounding London there are always certain words that give it away. I used to get teased because of the way I say "One" with a northern accent even when I was speaking cockney. Now I've moved back up north I get teased for not pronouncing my "T's" when I speak with a northern accent lol
@@RoomAtTheTopStudio "TOO NORTHERN TO BE SOUTHERN... TOO SOUTHERN TO BE NORTHERN... AND WITH ACCENT THEY CALL.... NETHER-REGIONAL!"
Got studio monitors and the low end from this almost wrecked my windows!
I have mildly shitty speakers- but today I found out that the lowest note they can produce is exactly the resonance frequency of my whole desk
LOL.
@@olik136 How the rocks were moved into structure just simple and perfect. 👁️🗨️
Moar bassssssss
TH-cam compression also sucks alot so you get the lowest frequency more often than its actually played.
Fantastic sound! Clearly legendary for a reason. Can't wait to buy the Behringer version, if Yamaha had come out with their own analog reproduction for 5 or 6 thousand US I would have bought one already, missed opportunity on their part!
i don't know anything about synthesizers but the sounds this makes are clearly above-average. i think the "aftertouch" is very distinctive
Great video, iconic synth. That stand is totally inadequate!
I believe you get one of this if you go to heaven
I'm turning devout synthian then
Wauv... what a fat, emotionally evocative and living sound.. most synth's of today do'nt even come half the way to that. HUGE sounds, and eerily alive..absolutely brilliant!
That thing sounds incredible. What a massive tone.
lots of surface to snort a line on, huh?
Of course
I think hes had enough.
Gaita Ponto Right along the pitch ribbon! Changing the pitch with your schnoz
you're disgusting.
@@0hhtecMusicianTheNotecianHero I think he was making fun of the 80s. Because the 80s were all about male on male action and cocaine.
I loved the part between 0.05 - 9.58 when the keyboard stand was giving me severe anxiety
yes
You keep beating the snot out of a museum piece.
That thing has gotta have the heaviest, deepest, "phatest", bass of any synth before or since.
I love this guys enthusiasm
Respect for the music you played on it. Actually you nailed the best performance made on this synth in the last 20 years. (!) (Im very very critical on synths and how they are used.)
Keep on the path! And thank you!
I guess you're very very (!) critical on synths.
Human ears are made for this synths😍
Me and my dad have one since 1981 and it is hell to keep tuned.....And hell to travel with.......
The sliders and buttons on this look exactly like some of the old Yamaha "home organs" from the 70s & 80s which are still knocking around and which I sometimes play. But this beast is truly awesome for its time (apart from the obvious limitation of having only 4 user memories). Thanks for the excellent demo and hearing the great sounds that it makes.
9:58 with no ads. Because who needs money when you have s y n t h
The second he pushed that first note I climaxed...my god...
*Bladerunner* would _never_ have been what it is without this instrument.
Still the best Yamaha CS80 in depth feature on TH-cam
8:06 When you ask for turntables on Christmas but your mom gets you a CS80 instead
I'd take the cs80 over anything else anyday
Then your mom would be a genius
It probably feels like a huge honor to play the CS 80 ... :)
Best CS80 demo I've seen, by far 😊
I wanted a good cs80x demo and if I could pick anyone , this would be the guy to play it !
No wonder it's worth so much, one of the few vintage synths with a truly unique sound...Love what you're doing at 7:00...so deranged, like circuit-bent micro-chip brain damage action.
I didn't know that the Yamaha CS80 had built in digital reverb.
My grandparents had a Yamaha organ in their basement. I used to mess with it as a kid. All those buttons and switchgear bring back memories. They were so tactile and satisfying to play with.
This thing has actually been invented in 2077. As a time machine. It just has teleported itself into 1977 by having pushed that funny yellow button.
"Today I found this old Yamaha organ, so I pulled all the guts out and filled it with voice chips from Gameboys and Furbies!"
Sam the Man, you've hit the big-time, getting to play one of the most iconic synths ever built. Nice patches, lad!
Only LMNC could have a music room big enough that a CS80 could hide in a corner.
Also, this thing sounds so orgasmic I'm gonna be running on empty for the rest of the week at best.
i dont actualy own this! i wish sheeesh haha. i was working on a project at RAK recording studio in london, and this thing had been sat in the corner of studio 3 for quite some time! apparently it hadnt been played for 5 years. and it was out of tune, but i insisted to give it a go. and it was working beautifully
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER honest question... How would it go out of tune? Isn't it all electronic circuits?
@@shadowuser00 Analogue electronics can go out of tune pretty easily.
It's hard to explain. But to keep it simple, the oscillator circuits are made of components that change their behaviour in relation to temperature, voltage, age of the components and many more things besides.
You can make extremely cheap analogue synths by circuit bending 555 timer chips, but those are extremely unstable, and go out of tune very easily.
Keeping the circuits in tune over long periods and varied conditions is one of the hardest parts about designing analogue synths.
Now, if you were talking a digital system, you'd be right. getting a digital synth to go out of tune is pretty difficult. But analogue ones can go out of tune really easily...
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER They had it in the corner of the studio for YEARS and no one played it? What kind of crime is this! They should just give it to you at this rate.
I Agree! @@CockatooDude
This synth is a LEGEND. One of the very best of all times.
Never really looked into the details of it, thanks for sharing that. I think having two oscillators per voice with separate parameters is unique and we can start to understand this notion of sounding complex wave characteristics to actuate realism, furthering down the line of Yamahas interest into FM...maybe
Look mum a Vangelisizer ! ❤️
"Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mum."
"My mum? Let me tell you about my mum..." **blam**
nice seeing u here
Wow, the moment you started playing my jaw hit the floor. That thing sounds deeeeeeep!
Many and many years after this one is the best synth ever made : it is living :) I hope one day someone will recreate it as an harware not too expensive^^
Just subscribed today - echoing the same thoughts as below many months ago. I was expecting Vangelis'ness to come out, but instead blown away by god-level madmax sounding tunes! Awesome!! Never thought of a CS-80 doing that kind of stuff...but it does! And melts the speakers with no care.
And I am going to use this comment to confess my sin too, and hope people will pray for my redemption. Back in the mid 90's, as a teen, listening to Vangelis and JMJ a fair bit already, I visited a Cash Converters in Kings Lynn (UK). There I saw a brightly buttoned huge mother of an "Organ" as it was ignorantly displayed , wanting the huge bugger gone, the price tag was...£25!!!!! Yes, £25 bloody quid! .. AND with the original stand and lid etc.
So I bought it cause it looked retro funky, I had the fecking heavy thing on my lap in the car, all the way home. Plugged it in, couldn't get any sound - I was dumb of course (more so now evidently). Soooo many buttons and switches, I couldn't figure it out. I said to myself, "Nah, silly organ thing doesn't work", so I ...*sobs in agony*... started dismantling it like the donkey I was/am, without a care or any awareness of its prestige and legacy. I kinda knew something was odd when I noted Rosewood sides, and what seemed to be gold plated contacts under the keys and the bands along the base of them (velocity), then wires attached to the felt strip and so on. In time, I moved out, and dad disposed of the parts at the local dump.
Some years later I really got into Synths and started searching (the internet was taking off by then, unlike before). I search "what is the ultimate synth?" ..." A Yamaha CS-80, used by .... oh ok - nice!. Looks a bit familiar .... see some more pictures.....and ..Oh....... FFFFFFFFFFF***********************************************KKKK!!!!!!! ....and I truly do feel a deep gutted feeling even now, like 25 years later - so sad. But, as soon as I have 20k spare, I will have to buy another one as punishment!
I don't think that X stand is going to survive long lol
I have to get my CS kicks out of a Deckard's Dream, but love the original still of course :)
Watching him play that on that x stand gave me massive anxiety
dick'eads dream heheh!
I believe it’s been sat on that stand for the last 25 years, I suspect it will be ok for another 25.
I thought the same lol
Oh great now you've just reminded me i really want a Deckard's dream NICE ONE, YEAH?
Man that stand looks super wobbly. I would put a cement foundation under a cs-80, the price certainly justifies it
that jam had some parts that are the most beautifull thing i ever heard
@5:42 Mother of God that bass.
That thing is amazing, and likely the reason I'm into synth music, blade runner being my intro into it.
Bah. Vangelis made two good pieces. Tangerine Dream Logos and Tangram are the real thing.
Yes. They are the main influencers that got me into synthesizers first and foremost. Vengelis and Tangerine Dream and also Jean-Michel Jarre. My very old grandfather introduced me to this music when I was a child. It's awesome to find like minded people among us.
@@pcuimac We all have our own opinions. For me, Tangerine Dream are no longer interesting beyond Ricochet (1975?).
Your ability to play that is phenominal
The jam session (at least the first half) reminded me of psychedelic fantasy animation from the late 70s/early 80s, and I fuckin' love it.