Personal to me too. I run Linux, and Cherry makes the splendid CS2600, which I use to record patches for my Behringer 2600 in a simple way. The fact I can run it via WINE with zero issues means a lot to me.
Cherry Audio have brought a brilliant suite of world class synthesisers to be well within reach of everyone. What an amazing company. Congratulations on the GX-80. It sounds great.
This synth is a sweet spot monster. My wife and I have spent two or so hours flipping through the presets only and already ended up with half a dozen song ideas.
Have ti say that all your synths have been so good so far. I wish I had had this stuff back in the 80's but it was totally out of my reach back then. Today's musicians probably don't realise how lucky they are to be able to buy synths like this for a few hours wages .
DX, D-50 ran around 2000 apiece. This thing beats them both even if you combined them. Plus FX, presets, ect. Minus the MIDI glitches. Yes, we remember. I'll get this tonight.Thanks guys, all your stuff is fantastic. And dirt cheap.
I played back then with the 60 it was all you need onstage. Using a mouse will never work for me the controls where awesome to articulate sounds, the organ style levers where brilliant as the ribbon and aftertouch where also. I could manipulate a lot with 1 hand while playing using the aftertouch and other controls I just loved the ribbon control. I've looked for decent controllers but they don't cut it unfortunately. It was a very organic experience.
Incredible value but a Mouse and PC will never equal the tactile feel of a real instrument. It’s why you see people like Tim, the narrator invest money in actual hardware.
I am now a huge fan of TS and the level of quality and expertise in his videos has massively influenced what I buy (Dreadbox!) Cherry's excellent GX80 will be next.
The first time i heard Keith Emmerson improvising on the MOOG live here in vienna, i knew that someday i will own ONE OF THESE; Now after 50 Years, in the 21th century its actually haaaappppppppening!!
Only CA could attempt a project like this. It could be the best emulation for many years from now of these wonderful beasts patched together in an amazing VST. Thanks CA for your efforts in giving us always better instruments to titillate our creativity without depleting our wallets and thanks Tim for your precise and detailed explanations, as ever.
Count myself lucky to have found this video and synth. Great job, Cherry Audio. Yamaha always seemed to prefer mostly sliders over knobs. It's a nice change of pace when working on presets.
OK, I owned a CS80 from the mid-80s to the mid-90s when I was forced to sell it, so I'm in love with this VST! So it's a pity that my elderly PC isn't quite up to running it (although I'll try the demo to make sure). Fortunately, I should be getting a new PC in the early spring. BTW, FUNKY 1 and FUNKY 2 fed through the ring modulator, plus generous use of the ribbon, gives you the sting from the 80s version of the Doctor Who theme.
@@MrJC1 The GX-80 does not alias at all so there is absolutely nothing to be gained by oversampling. You should run the GX-80 at the native sampling rate of your project. Oversampling implies subsequent downsampling back to your project's rate. These steps can often cause more problems than they solve. The oversampling buttons are not quality settings.
Superb! Well done again Cherry Audio. My desire to buy a couple of hard synths for my new studio is dimishing with every new synth you release. 😎 Now get started on that Jupiter 8 please!
I got the demo and checked out the presets and created a short piece to test it out ( even with that annoying sound that would come up at times ). After delving a bit further into its architecture and effects..I was quite impressed. This is a magnificent synthesizer, whether hardware or software. The factory sounds and presets can be quite inspiring, but like the reviewer here demonstrated; you can dig in and create incredible sounds. If your into serious music production...get this.
Looks and sounds great 👍 Bonus too with Poly Aftertouch response, so I can use with my TS-10 & GEM S3 Turbo master synth, yayy!!! Black Friday deal, here I come 🙏🏻 … 😎👊🎹🎵🍻🇬🇧
Thanks for the great presentation Tim Shoebridge! Will be adding this to my Cherry Audio collection for sure in due time!... I am growing into Cherry Audio brand over time, which at first I kind of skipped Cherry Audio products cos I was not familiar with them as other software companies. One product of a synth or something I do not remember of my 1st purchase to try it out got me going into Cherry Audio product line. Cheers, Happy Cherries! :-))
Wow. Really nice Tim. Love the walkthrough. I have this in my wishlist after watching this demo. Just the small sample of sounds you highlighted has this worth a closer look (via purchase). Thank you. Great share. (edit) ...have downloaded the demo with your link.
25:38 the octave and harmonic (Feet) settings harken back to Electone Organ roots, specifically Hammond Organ drawbar harmonics/pipe organ pipe footage. On the CS-80 the 5⅓ foot setting is quite useful for adding a 5th. To have the added harmonics from the GX-1 is about as awesome as it gets!
Thank you Mr. Shoebridge for this review. The ultimate question is always how the software compares to the original. However, if I count in the price of the software, I won't care for a second!
Intriguing introductory video to an apparently very interesting synth plug. Thanks! I have the Arturia version and it's a dead accurate emu to my ears. I'll be trying the Cherry in comparison to that, BUT the GX-80 does seem to be its own thing in addition! Very cool. Thanks again. 🙂
10:10, hearing that polyphonic aftertouch. Wow! Having a controller that has **polyphonic** aftertouch is not the easiest thing to come by, but it's great that the instrument can respond to it when it's there.
The ASM Hydrasynth Explorer is affordable, it's a fantastic synth for the money and does double duty as a poly-AT capable MIDI controller. Just hooked the GX-80 up to mine and it's bloody marvellous! 🙂
@@w1bblem0nkey Thanks for the info, I'll check it out! I've heard good things about the Hydrasynth, but didn't realize polyphonic aftertouch was part of it.
So clever of Cherry Audio to make a GX1/CS80 hybrid. There's no need for comparison with already established CS80 emulations, and this flagship synth will blow any competition away! Yet another CA product to add to my collection.
16:40 playing the CS-80 just after switching it on was always disappointing. It sounded thin, uninspiring. Quickly however, setting up dynamic playing on the keyboard - using all the master, global controls and really digging in with your hands on the keyboard ~ made all the difference. The dynamic, vibrant "sound" of the CS-80 always came from the user-interface, the keyboard, the velocity, the aftertouch and all the interrelated global controls. The dynamic vibrancy always came from the musician, the player, the human. Took me ages to realize that CS-80s do not have pitch and mod wheels. But you don't miss them at all because of all the other expressive options. The CS-80 is also an Electone after all and that means there's some covert organ tricks to playing that instrument. So nice to finally have all that expansive Yamaha sound palette from the GX-1 and through the E-70 and the CS-80 . . . so much to love with this GX-80 and most especially the glorious aftertouch capability.
Arturia's version is very good. This synth is wild, primarelly due to the filter and bi timbrality. Deckart's Dream does it justice, but the og one has some rough edges i really liked when i tried it long time ago.
Well done, Tim! I love it when you get excited about a synth (I've bought a few pieces based on your videos and no regrets), and I can see that with this as well. I'll be purchasing this also. Have you ever given thought to creating a synth, softsynth, or controller yourself? You seem like someone who could actually do it. If not, I understand - and I'll just wait for the next thing you get excited about.
Thanks! Got the demo now and tried -- realy good sound with its own character. And the price is below than democratic ))) placed for future buy! thanks! p.s> and the lumi keyboard is nice ))) wanna too
You know, Tim doesn't even have to finish saying "Hello, I'm..." and I am on your site pressing Buy Now. Amazing instruments you are creating, and this note is to thank you for not making me pay twice for Stack 2 and Stack 3. I love you, Cherry Audio ❤ (and you too, Tim Shoebridge 😂) #fan4life
@@tendingtropic7778 This is probably not a complete list, but these come to mind, in a variety of prices and features. Some pad-based controllers (or keyboard controllers with pads, like Novation’s SL MkIII) have Poly Aftertouch through the pads. Some of these are complete synths with Poly AT keys that also transmit the signals. Roli Lumi and Rise, CME Keys, most (all?) Keith McMillen controllers, ASM Hydrasynths (synths that can be used as controllers), Kurzweil Midiboard, MPC gear, Expressive E Osmose, Linnstrument, vintage Ensoniqs (SQ80 VFX), Arturia Microfreak, Mellotron 4000D, Novation Launchpad Pro and X and SL MkIII (as above), Waldorf Iridium keys, and Ableton Push 2 when used with Live. Others may be able to chime in with others we missed. The key thing to look for is absolute clarity that the instrument/controller has “polyphonic aftertouch” (not just mono or channel aftertouch), that it transmits it, and that it’s not just a synthesizer that says it supports polyphonic aftertouch just because it receives it (but doesn’t have keys that support it). Right now, some of us are using the ASM Hydrasynths which fully support Poly AT, have knobs that can be configured as MIDI controllers, and some have pitch ribbons that correspond to GX-80's ribbon. But it makes for a very expensive controller (though the synth is great too!)
Another thing that (I think) I am hearing with the GX-80 sounds is that aspect still making the CS-80 unique: slight variances in oscillator pitch or LFO rates between voices. Out of the 8 voices played, at least one voice is out of tune compared to the others. Slightly different envelope attack, different pitch attack, different LFO rate or depth. Something which somehow worked well on the CS-80 (and the GX-1). It seems like the programmers have gotten that as part of this instrument.
Already have miniverse and dco-106. I can't wait to get more of these plugins! Broke-ass musicians unite! edit: this comment wasn't meant to say that the synths are low quality, because they aren't. they're amazing and affordable.
A little fun fact about the sideways modulating. This is still available if you buy a Yamaha Electone (only sold in South Acia today) The top manual have sideways modulation of filter and pitch for creating natural sounding vibrato. It's propably expensive to implement but why oh why have Yamaha never put this into a modern Synthesizer. I wasn't aware of the Roli keyboard had this. Even the GX-1 was generally a Preset instrument, IIRC it still had a Shelf hidden under the lower manual where you could access most of the synth parameters. The most fantastic about the GX-1 was that for an analog Polysynth of 1975 it has some remarkable good impressions of both real woodwinds and stringed instruments. The closest I have gotten to this marvel of an electronic Instrument was as a local contender in the Yamaha Electone Festival in the late 70's, we all got a record with the past years Finalists in Japan all performing their music on the GX-1. There isn't anything in the world that rivals this instrument. Absolutely amazing. This is an absolute "Must have" as ever seeing one of these for real, yet to get playing it will only happen if you visit the Yamaha Museum
There was a separate programmer box that had all the analog synth parameters - this was used with yet another box to program sound cartridges, which had a bunch of tiny trim pots. The procedure for getting them set up was downright comical . Re the side-to-side keyb mod, I believe the Yamaha YC-45D organ had it too.
@@celebutante Yamaha also used this on later Electones. I purchased an FS70 which was the top spinet version of the FS/FX series had a shelf for setting the flute section. This could be saved along with the combination settings and programable rhythm steps to a cartrigde much like the DX cartridges
Tim, I see that you have a Behringer X-Touch Universal Control Surface in your studio. I am wanting to get one of those but I want to mount it in a way that I can have it suspended, perhaps on an articulating arm or sorts to move it to where I want and need. How do you have it mounted? Can you tell me the make and model of what it is mounted on? That would be great. Great preview of a great product in the GX-80!
Emerson's GX-1, post orchestra, 2nd leg of the tour, '78...THAT is the epitome of the GX-1 sound...to me at least. ELPowell '86 GX-1 midi'd sounded amazing as well.
Totally agree! I saw that ELP concert twice post orchestra and watching Keith play Pirates by himself on the GX-1 was epic. Better than with the orchestra IMO. I miss that guy so much.
Probably not a complete list, but these come to mind, in a variety of prices and features. Some pad-based controllers (or keyboard controllers with pads, like Novation’s SL MkIII) have poly AT through the pads. Some of these are complete synths with poly AT keys that also transmit the signals. Roli Lumi and Rise, CME Keys, most (all?) Keith McMillen controllers, ASM Hydrasynths (synths can be used as controllers), Kurzweil Midiboard, MPC gear, Expressive E Osmose, Linnstrument, vintage Ensoniqs (SQ80 VFX), Arturia Microfreak, Mellotron 4000D, Novation Launchpad Pro and X and SL MkIII as above), Waldorf Iridium keys, Ableton Push 2. Others may be able to chime in with those we missed. The key thing to look for is absolute clarity that the instrument/controller has “polyphonic aftertouch” (not just mono or channel aftertouch), that it transmits it, and that it’s not just a synthesizer that says it supports polyphonic aftertouch just because it receives it (but doesn’t have keys that support it).
there is a great video on TH-cam for Emerson, Lake and Palmer who did a song called Fan Fare for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Keith plays a GX-1 in the video.
Back in 1987 I answered at ad from a guy who was selling all his old gear so he could get a D-50. The item of most interest to me was a Yamaha CS-80, which he was asking the princely sum of $200.00 for. I got there just too late. Someone else just beat me to it. But having 2 bills in my pocket I did not leave empty handed. Still have that Minimoog.
Great sounding synth! Going through the presets now. I was kinda dissapointed that there was no MPE support though.☹ This and the Linnstrument in full MPE mode would be a killer pair. Maybe too processor intensive?
The dual layer nature of GX-80 (like Elka-X) does not perform well with our implementation of MPE, but you should still be able to take advantage of Linnstrument’s polyphonic aftertouch support using Note-Per-Channel mode or in Single Channel Poly Pressure mode
There is a virtual keyboard and even a separate “typed” keys UI to play on the QWERTY keyboard of your PC/laptop, but you’ll definitely get more out of it with even the most basic MIDI USB keyboard controller
Does anyone know if Mark Barton's demo of Fanfare for the common man have those sounds as a preset patch as the harmonica solo sound that keith Emerson used on The GX-1sounds really close to his?
Very easily - you can click the magnifying glass in the top menu strip to select a percentage size, or you can just grab the bottom right corner to make it any size you like. There's also a FOCUS button that lets you blow up a section really big (and pan around) - it's very useful on smaller displays.
Although a bit over-satisfied with the number of soft-remakes, it's refereshing to have someone take a good look at the GX1 and not just the CS80 ! Not waiting till the end of the video (and also managing my time a bit here, will watch the rest later), but have a question : Why did they include a resonant HP filter (on square and sawtooth waves) with frequencies going far above the hearing limit ? Maybe it's just to be "fateful" to the original, but unless there's a very good reason for it, I would prefer to have them use the bottom half of the slider to narrow down on anything below e.g. 800hz, and the top half for anything above ...
That preset is likely James Dyson's "God Particle" preset, or a modified version of it. It's an amazing example of what can be done on GX-80 with all four ranks, dual layers, effects, and an aftertouch controller.
The CPU usage is so absurdly obscene, that Cherry Audio is forcing me to buy Arturia's CS-80(which costs nearly 3 times as much.) Great going as usual guys, as I am NEVER buying another CA product.
This is a personal thing to me. I’m supporting this company because they’re doing great work at an affordable price.
Me 2
Personal to me too. I run Linux, and Cherry makes the splendid CS2600, which I use to record patches for my Behringer 2600 in a simple way. The fact I can run it via WINE with zero issues means a lot to me.
same
You've guys have easily become my favorite plugin company.
Tim's one of the best synth teachers online. Great new V synth at a great price. Thanks Cherry Audio!
Tim is absolutely one of the best, most thoughtful teachers and reviewers. I continue to learn from his videos!
You guys make the best sounding synths I have ever heard and I heard alot!!
Lovely new synth. Well done, everyone involved in making this thing! Never thought I'd see a GX1 emulation, but here we are :)
Incredible Cherry Audio! My Killer Klowns from Outer Space GAME Soundtrack proudly features Cherry Audio Synths. Keep up the great work. 💯😎💯
Cherry Audio have brought a brilliant suite of world class synthesisers to be well within reach of everyone. What an amazing company. Congratulations on the GX-80. It sounds great.
This synth is a sweet spot monster. My wife and I have spent two or so hours flipping through the presets only and already ended up with half a dozen song ideas.
Thank you, Tim, for another brilliant intro to another brilliant virtual instrument by Cherry Audio. It is breathtaking!
Have ti say that all your synths have been so good so far. I wish I had had this stuff back in the 80's but it was totally out of my reach back then. Today's musicians probably don't realise how lucky they are to be able to buy synths like this for a few hours wages .
Great point!
DX, D-50 ran around 2000 apiece. This thing beats them both even if you combined them. Plus FX, presets, ect. Minus the MIDI glitches. Yes, we remember. I'll get this tonight.Thanks guys,
all your stuff is fantastic. And dirt cheap.
I played back then with the 60 it was all you need onstage. Using a mouse will never work for me the controls where awesome to articulate sounds, the organ style levers where brilliant as the ribbon and aftertouch where also. I could manipulate a lot with 1 hand while playing using the aftertouch and other controls I just loved the ribbon control. I've looked for decent controllers but they don't cut it unfortunately. It was a very organic experience.
Incredible value but a Mouse and PC will never equal the tactile feel of a real instrument. It’s why you see people like Tim, the narrator invest money in actual hardware.
@@williamshaneblyth the Hydrasynth will do it
Simply incredible. Thank you, Cherry Audio!
I am now a huge fan of TS and the level of quality and expertise in his videos has massively influenced what I buy (Dreadbox!) Cherry's excellent GX80 will be next.
Cherry one-upped us with the GX bits, well played. Well presented < 3
The first time i heard Keith Emmerson improvising on the MOOG live here in vienna, i knew that someday i will own ONE OF THESE; Now after 50 Years, in the 21th century its actually haaaappppppppening!!
Another great job Tim in presenting this product.
Picked this up last night. It is a BEAST!! Love it and can't wait to start tweaking my patches with it. Well done CA!!!
Only CA could attempt a project like this. It could be the best emulation for many years from now of these wonderful beasts patched together in an amazing VST. Thanks CA for your efforts in giving us always better instruments to titillate our creativity without depleting our wallets and thanks Tim for your precise and detailed explanations, as ever.
Stunning, succinct and inspiring. Thank you Tim
Count myself lucky to have found this video and synth. Great job, Cherry Audio. Yamaha always seemed to prefer mostly sliders over knobs. It's a nice change of pace when working on presets.
The GX-80 is a stunning piece of work - absolutely loving it. And this is a superb intro video.. please consider doing more!!
OK, I owned a CS80 from the mid-80s to the mid-90s when I was forced to sell it, so I'm in love with this VST! So it's a pity that my elderly PC isn't quite up to running it (although I'll try the demo to make sure). Fortunately, I should be getting a new PC in the early spring.
BTW, FUNKY 1 and FUNKY 2 fed through the ring modulator, plus generous use of the ribbon, gives you the sting from the 80s version of the Doctor Who theme.
It's lighter on CPU than you might imagine.
@@shmeez that would be different from other Cherry Audio plug-ins on a decent quality setting.
You were forced to sell a cs80?Good lord that's rough man.😞
@@davidreidy5750 Yeah!!! +1 there for sure….. I feel you man 😩
@@MrJC1 The GX-80 does not alias at all so there is absolutely nothing to be gained by oversampling. You should run the GX-80 at the native sampling rate of your project. Oversampling implies subsequent downsampling back to your project's rate. These steps can often cause more problems than they solve. The oversampling buttons are not quality settings.
Cherry Audio you exiled yourselves a well sought after Poly synth is now within everyone's reach brilliant
Brilliant job guys (again!!) - let me at it, lol...
Tim is perfect. Nice video, nice instrument, nice explanation.
What else?
Amazing ! Tim is the best🎉
Wow suddenly there are a massive amount of separate videos on this new synth- well marketed!!
This looks and sounds magnificent. Can't wait to get to play with it today.
Really nice walkthrough of a lot of different features, thanks for the work on making this video!
Sounds brilliant. It’s a winner so far.
Cherry smacks it AGAIN, worldclass!
First VST company I feel in the same way I do hardware synths. The way you absolutely nailed the JP4 is absolutely impressive.
Sounds absolutely awesome. Great work!
Very subtle and detailed design; Exceptional presence; Congratulation!
Superb! Well done again Cherry Audio. My desire to buy a couple of hard synths for my new studio is dimishing with every new synth you release. 😎 Now get started on that Jupiter 8 please!
Cherry audio has done it again!
I got the demo and checked out the presets and created a short piece to test it out ( even with that annoying sound that would come up at times ). After delving a bit further into its architecture and effects..I was quite impressed. This is a magnificent synthesizer, whether hardware or software. The factory sounds and presets can be quite inspiring, but like the reviewer here demonstrated; you can dig in and create incredible sounds. If your into serious music production...get this.
Great product and launch and love these overviews, reviews.
Looks and sounds great 👍 Bonus too with Poly Aftertouch response, so I can use with my TS-10 & GEM S3 Turbo master synth, yayy!!! Black Friday deal, here I come 🙏🏻 … 😎👊🎹🎵🍻🇬🇧
Thanks for the great presentation Tim Shoebridge! Will be adding this to my Cherry Audio collection for sure in due time!... I am growing into Cherry Audio brand over time, which at first I kind of skipped Cherry Audio products cos I was not familiar with them as other software companies. One product of a synth or something I do not remember of my 1st purchase to try it out got me going into Cherry Audio product line. Cheers, Happy Cherries! :-))
Wow. Really nice Tim. Love the walkthrough. I have this in my wishlist after watching this demo. Just the small sample of sounds you highlighted has this worth a closer look (via purchase). Thank you. Great share. (edit) ...have downloaded the demo with your link.
Hope you have a series of 3 or 4 videos covering the rest of this amazing synth emulation.
I like this video much better than the other one I just watched on the GX-80. Nicely done.
Thanks so much for the walkthrough, definitely need this one!!! A lot going on under the hood of this one.
I am loving this synth so far. :)
Sold on it. Just got mine! Thank you Tim
This!!! Thank you Cherry Audio.
Download the demo, choose preset LAYERED BLADES, play, buy.
Great Video Tim as always well cone :)
25:38 the octave and harmonic (Feet) settings harken back to Electone Organ roots, specifically Hammond Organ drawbar harmonics/pipe organ pipe footage.
On the CS-80 the 5⅓ foot setting is quite useful for adding a 5th. To have the added harmonics from the GX-1 is about as awesome as it gets!
Thank you Mr. Shoebridge for this review. The ultimate question is always how the software compares to the original. However, if I count in the price of the software, I won't care for a second!
Intriguing introductory video to an apparently very interesting synth plug. Thanks! I have the Arturia version and it's a dead accurate emu to my ears. I'll be trying the Cherry in comparison to that, BUT the GX-80 does seem to be its own thing in addition! Very cool. Thanks again. 🙂
Thank you Cherry, this looks superb :)
10:10, hearing that polyphonic aftertouch. Wow! Having a controller that has **polyphonic** aftertouch is not the easiest thing to come by, but it's great that the instrument can respond to it when it's there.
The ASM Hydrasynth Explorer is affordable, it's a fantastic synth for the money and does double duty as a poly-AT capable MIDI controller. Just hooked the GX-80 up to mine and it's bloody marvellous! 🙂
@@w1bblem0nkey Thanks for the info, I'll check it out! I've heard good things about the Hydrasynth, but didn't realize polyphonic aftertouch was part of it.
@@jakehendriksen2841 ASM OWNS THE AFTERTOUCH POLYTOUCH KEYBED PATENT SINCE THE BEGINNING ITS THEIRS AND ON ALL THEIR HYDRAS 🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌👍👍👍😜😜😜
I agree with others here, I have been very pleased with everything I have purchased from Cherry Audio so far, and this is next.
So clever of Cherry Audio to make a GX1/CS80 hybrid. There's no need for comparison with already established CS80 emulations, and this flagship synth will blow any competition away! Yet another CA product to add to my collection.
Great calm teaching. Thanks Tim. but, what happened to the other two videos i wanna rewatch for the 10th times
This was the only Intro video for this instrument. We're experimenting to find the right balance on videos... number, length, and topics. Stay tuned!
16:40 playing the CS-80 just after switching it on was always disappointing. It sounded thin, uninspiring. Quickly however, setting up dynamic playing on the keyboard - using all the master, global controls and really digging in with your hands on the keyboard ~ made all the difference. The dynamic, vibrant "sound" of the CS-80 always came from the user-interface, the keyboard, the velocity, the aftertouch and all the interrelated global controls. The dynamic vibrancy always came from the musician, the player, the human.
Took me ages to realize that CS-80s do not have pitch and mod wheels. But you don't miss them at all because of all the other expressive options.
The CS-80 is also an Electone after all and that means there's some covert organ tricks to playing that instrument.
So nice to finally have all that expansive Yamaha sound palette from the GX-1 and through the E-70 and the CS-80 . . . so much to love with this GX-80 and most especially the glorious aftertouch capability.
Arturia's version is very good. This synth is wild, primarelly due to the filter and bi timbrality. Deckart's Dream does it justice, but the og one has some rough edges i really liked when i tried it long time ago.
Cherry audio ❤️ the besttt
SO beautiful!!!
Well done, Tim! I love it when you get excited about a synth (I've bought a few pieces based on your videos and no regrets), and I can see that with this as well. I'll be purchasing this also. Have you ever given thought to creating a synth, softsynth, or controller yourself? You seem like someone who could actually do it. If not, I understand - and I'll just wait for the next thing you get excited about.
Thanks Tim, awesome walkthrough as always from you ! Curious what is that controller keyboard you are using?
I’m all about this, but would love it in AUv3 format more than anything!
Thanks! Got the demo now and tried -- realy good sound with its own character. And the price is below than democratic ))) placed for future buy! thanks! p.s> and the lumi keyboard is nice ))) wanna too
This is a perfect opportunity to explore Ableton Live 11's MPE programming potential, (without an MPE-equipped keyboard).
Hi Tim,
I've just purchased GX-80 and it's fantastic. Amazing instrument!
Could you please tell the patch in 8:30 ? Thanks
I was wondering how Cherry was going to outgun Arturia. Nice shot, Cherry. Nice shot, indeed.
You know, Tim doesn't even have to finish saying "Hello, I'm..." and I am on your site pressing Buy Now. Amazing instruments you are creating, and this note is to thank you for not making me pay twice for Stack 2 and Stack 3. I love you, Cherry Audio ❤ (and you too, Tim Shoebridge 😂) #fan4life
Really? You just buy from hearing a payed Synthfluencers voice! Your real easy ah! Nice one..
@@nagchumpalot 🤣 I am indeed.
Sounds very good I wasn't going to buy any more VST as I moving towards hardware but may just make an exception I will never own a real one of these 😬
what keyboard is being used starting with 0:44?
That’s Tim’s Kawaii MP9000 digital piano (released 1999), used as a MIDI controller (no aftertouch)
@@CherryAudiovst what midi controller would you recommend for this to make optimal use of the polyphonic AT?
@@tendingtropic7778 This is probably not a complete list, but these come to mind, in a variety of prices and features. Some pad-based controllers (or keyboard controllers with pads, like Novation’s SL MkIII) have Poly Aftertouch through the pads. Some of these are complete synths with Poly AT keys that also transmit the signals.
Roli Lumi and Rise, CME Keys, most (all?) Keith McMillen controllers, ASM Hydrasynths (synths that can be used as controllers), Kurzweil Midiboard, MPC gear, Expressive E Osmose, Linnstrument, vintage Ensoniqs (SQ80 VFX), Arturia Microfreak, Mellotron 4000D, Novation Launchpad Pro and X and SL MkIII (as above), Waldorf Iridium keys, and Ableton Push 2 when used with Live.
Others may be able to chime in with others we missed. The key thing to look for is absolute clarity that the instrument/controller has “polyphonic aftertouch” (not just mono or channel aftertouch), that it transmits it, and that it’s not just a synthesizer that says it supports polyphonic aftertouch just because it receives it (but doesn’t have keys that support it).
Right now, some of us are using the ASM Hydrasynths which fully support Poly AT, have knobs that can be configured as MIDI controllers, and some have pitch ribbons that correspond to GX-80's ribbon. But it makes for a very expensive controller (though the synth is great too!)
@@CherryAudiovst thank you for the elaborate answer
Great video 👍
Two Layers = Two CS-80s stacked? That's a lot of design space to explore!
Another thing that (I think) I am hearing with the GX-80 sounds is that aspect still making the CS-80 unique: slight variances in oscillator pitch or LFO rates between voices. Out of the 8 voices played, at least one voice is out of tune compared to the others. Slightly different envelope attack, different pitch attack, different LFO rate or depth. Something which somehow worked well on the CS-80 (and the GX-1). It seems like the programmers have gotten that as part of this instrument.
Already have miniverse and dco-106. I can't wait to get more of these plugins! Broke-ass musicians unite!
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this comment wasn't meant to say that the synths are low quality, because they aren't. they're amazing and affordable.
A little fun fact about the sideways modulating. This is still available if you buy a Yamaha Electone (only sold in South Acia today) The top manual have sideways modulation of filter and pitch for creating natural sounding vibrato. It's propably expensive to implement but why oh why have Yamaha never put this into a modern Synthesizer. I wasn't aware of the Roli keyboard had this.
Even the GX-1 was generally a Preset instrument, IIRC it still had a Shelf hidden under the lower manual where you could access most of the synth parameters.
The most fantastic about the GX-1 was that for an analog Polysynth of 1975 it has some remarkable good impressions of both real woodwinds and stringed instruments.
The closest I have gotten to this marvel of an electronic Instrument was as a local contender in the Yamaha Electone Festival in the late 70's, we all got a record with the past years Finalists in Japan all performing their music on the GX-1. There isn't anything in the world that rivals this instrument. Absolutely amazing. This is an absolute "Must have" as ever seeing one of these for real, yet to get playing it will only happen if you visit the Yamaha Museum
There was a separate programmer box that had all the analog synth parameters - this was used with yet another box to program sound cartridges, which had a bunch of tiny trim pots. The procedure for getting them set up was downright comical .
Re the side-to-side keyb mod, I believe the Yamaha YC-45D organ had it too.
@@celebutante Yamaha also used this on later Electones. I purchased an FS70 which was the top spinet version of the FS/FX series had a shelf for setting the flute section. This could be saved along with the combination settings and programable rhythm steps to a cartrigde much like the DX cartridges
Awesome !
When will Cherry Audio release this on iOS , iPad. ?
Tim, I see that you have a Behringer X-Touch Universal Control Surface in your studio. I am wanting to get one of those but I want to mount it in a way that I can have it suspended, perhaps on an articulating arm or sorts to move it to where I want and need. How do you have it mounted? Can you tell me the make and model of what it is mounted on? That would be great. Great preview of a great product in the GX-80!
that interface looool
That sounds surprisingly good for software. What is the cpu hit like?
Great video as usual Tim. Can i ask what is the Midi keyboard you are using?
Tim's using a number of keyboards in this video: LUMI Keys by ROLI, Kawaii MP9000 digital piano, and Mellotron M4000D
Thankyou@@CherryAudiovst
Emerson's GX-1, post orchestra, 2nd leg of the tour, '78...THAT is the epitome of the GX-1 sound...to me at least. ELPowell '86 GX-1 midi'd sounded amazing as well.
Totally agree! I saw that ELP concert twice post orchestra and watching Keith play Pirates by himself on the GX-1 was epic. Better than with the orchestra IMO. I miss that guy so much.
I know ('cos I've looked) that controllers with poly after touch are really rare. Do you "happen" to have a list of them?
Probably not a complete list, but these come to mind, in a variety of prices and features. Some pad-based controllers (or keyboard controllers with pads, like Novation’s SL MkIII) have poly AT through the pads. Some of these are complete synths with poly AT keys that also transmit the signals.
Roli Lumi and Rise, CME Keys, most (all?) Keith McMillen controllers, ASM Hydrasynths (synths can be used as controllers), Kurzweil Midiboard, MPC gear, Expressive E Osmose, Linnstrument, vintage Ensoniqs (SQ80 VFX), Arturia Microfreak, Mellotron 4000D, Novation Launchpad Pro and X and SL MkIII as above), Waldorf Iridium keys, Ableton Push 2.
Others may be able to chime in with those we missed. The key thing to look for is absolute clarity that the instrument/controller has “polyphonic aftertouch” (not just mono or channel aftertouch), that it transmits it, and that it’s not just a synthesizer that says it supports polyphonic aftertouch just because it receives it (but doesn’t have keys that support it).
there is a great video on TH-cam for Emerson, Lake and Palmer who did a song called Fan Fare for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Keith plays a GX-1 in the video.
Amazing ! what is the controler used for pilot the GX-80 with polyphonic aftertouch ?
If you're asking about the lit controller with color keys, Tim is using a LUMI Keys by ROLI
but nice video and sound at the end thx.
Back in 1987 I answered at ad from a guy who was selling all his old gear so he could get a D-50. The item of most interest to me was a Yamaha CS-80, which he was asking the princely sum of $200.00 for. I got there just too late. Someone else just beat me to it. But having 2 bills in my pocket I did not leave empty handed. Still have that Minimoog.
Awwwwwwhhhhhh, hyper gutted there !! He (& you…) must be regretting that, to this day. Darn. 😢
@@theaudioeng Would have been my retirement fund.
How to access rans III and IV. The manual is not much help.
Great sounding synth! Going through the presets now. I was kinda dissapointed that there was no MPE support though.☹ This and the Linnstrument in full MPE mode would be a killer pair. Maybe too processor intensive?
The dual layer nature of GX-80 (like Elka-X) does not perform well with our implementation of MPE, but you should still be able to take advantage of Linnstrument’s polyphonic aftertouch support using Note-Per-Channel mode or in Single Channel Poly Pressure mode
I’m new to all this, do I need a keyboard or any type of equipment to use this program?
There is a virtual keyboard and even a separate “typed” keys UI to play on the QWERTY keyboard of your PC/laptop, but you’ll definitely get more out of it with even the most basic MIDI USB keyboard controller
Does anyone know if Mark Barton's demo of Fanfare for the common man have those sounds as a preset patch as the harmonica solo sound that keith Emerson used on The GX-1sounds really close to his?
Could values in sliders be precisely entered numerically?
SOLD!
Will these be available for iPad at any point
We have not announced any plans for making our software available on iOS
WOW!!!
Can it be resized? Its way too big for my screen in FL.
Very easily - you can click the magnifying glass in the top menu strip to select a percentage size, or you can just grab the bottom right corner to make it any size you like. There's also a FOCUS button that lets you blow up a section really big (and pan around) - it's very useful on smaller displays.
@@CherryAudiovst yall are amazing. Thank you. All your stuff is too damn good
8:25 - Not Watcher Of The Skies 😉
i really need and want (!) a MIDI keyboard controller with polyphonic aftertouch!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Although a bit over-satisfied with the number of soft-remakes, it's refereshing to have someone take a good look at the GX1 and not just the CS80 !
Not waiting till the end of the video (and also managing my time a bit here, will watch the rest later), but have a question :
Why did they include a resonant HP filter (on square and sawtooth waves) with frequencies going far above the hearing limit ?
Maybe it's just to be "fateful" to the original, but unless there's a very good reason for it, I would prefer to have them use the bottom half of the slider to narrow down on anything below e.g. 800hz, and the top half for anything above ...
Is that a preset around 2.11. Just wondering or is it a combination of things. Or a group of layered effects which is what this could be too.
That preset is likely James Dyson's "God Particle" preset, or a modified version of it. It's an amazing example of what can be done on GX-80 with all four ranks, dual layers, effects, and an aftertouch controller.
@@CherryAudiovst Thanks Tim. I was looking for it. It's quite incredible for sure. Complex. Great video as well.
The CPU usage is so absurdly obscene, that Cherry Audio is forcing me to buy Arturia's CS-80(which costs nearly 3 times as much.) Great going as usual guys, as I am NEVER buying another CA product.
Odd. Everyone else seems NOT be having that problem.