An absolutely beautiful instrument, and one of the rarest. Vangelis always poured emotion into his music, and as soon as you hear the model CS80, the only name that comes up is Vangelis. Bladerunner became my favourite movie because of the atmosphere. The soundtrack, along with the visuals and brilliant acting make it untouchable.
The CS-80 just sounds SOOOO lush and magical. It really is the greatest synth of all times. There are other synths that are amazing, but the way the CS-80 used the polyphonic aftertouch to control the filter, gave it such an amazing expressiveness. True greatness. Of course, the performer also makes a big difference, as Vangelis truly could make this instrument sing like the voice of an angel. And I'm not even religious 🤣
Vangelis changed my life and makes me emotional every time I hear him. Direct, emotive and genuine in every note. I love this video and honestly would watch it if it was hours longer! Cheers!
Dear Jose, thanks so much for doing the video about the Vangelis' sound on CS-80, no one ever made such a detailed how-to video on TH-cam. Have a great weekend!
What an incredible amazing synthesizer and the greatest synthesizer ever made. Used to make incredible music by one of the greatest musicians of all time. RIP Vangelis, you absolute legend.
to the unknown man, one of my all time favorite tracks, and remains so all these years later... it was so interesting to watch you recreate how Vangelis made it and the other tracks you played
RIP Vangelis. We wil never forget what a great musician he was. Back than in Aphrodite’s Child as with Jon Anderson as well as his solo albums. My favorites are 666, Heaven and Hell, Spiral.
Really enjoyed this, thanks for taking the time to put it together. It's incredible how different the real CS80 sounds compared to the many VST emulations. I have both the ME80 and CS80V, both of which are great sounding synths but they don't quite hit the spot compared to the real thing. Cheers!
How about the AN1x virtual analog synth? I bought a used one eight years ago for around $250. I call it my "Blade Runner machine. Thank god I bought it then, because now the prices are well over a grand. It actually has a preset called "Vangelis", but that patch doesn't sound anything like these sounds. But it sounds pretty damn good.
Great channel, great video, doesn't try to sell nothing, knows how to play, the sound is great and the camera work is fabulous. Looking forward for more videos. Thank you.
Fantastic. Brilliant insight and for this 66 year old lover of all things prog and electronic, those sounds brought the memories flooding back. Thank you 👏👏👏
For me it all started with the sound of Pink Floyd - that got me into synths and keys. Actually I love my Rhodes, Wurli and CP70 as much as I love my synths
Evanghelis Odysseas Papathanassiou (if that is correct?)... That beautiful human being. He entered my heart, my soul...my everything. I love him forever! R.I.P.
@@josesvintagekeys Than we are both lucky victims❤ I looked it up: Evanghelos Odysseas Papathanasiou should be the right pronunciation/with such a name all is good...whatever you do in life!
A great composer, sadly missed, and a beautiful instrument. Personally my greatest moment of "wow, I never knew that was a CS80" was when I found out they used one for the opening sound effect on the new Doctor Who theme in the 1980s (it was the ring modulator).
I LOVE This. Thank you for creating this video. I"m old now but in 1980 as a college student I would go into my local music store in Albany NY just to sit and play and dream about owning this instrument. I never did get to own one but wow it was fun seeing what you did in this video. Thank you
Vangelis + Anderson is magic. Learned so much from my dads Vangelis (and others like Kitaro, Pink Floyd, Mostly Autumn, Marillion, and many more) collection. Glad we could see a rerun of Blade Runner together back in 2019. Just one year before he passed. Man that soundtrack needs to be heard in a Dolby theater.
I wouldn't add the 'extra brass' in the end.. instead use one of the two starters, they don't seem to differ that much. Simply beautiful demonstration though! It's truly a timeless instrument. Thanks for the video.
Every time I hear Vangelis' sound and harmony, my whole being goes into another dimension. And so for more than 40 years... Great job Jose. Thank you dude. Subscribe... ❤
Great video. Always nice to see great composers also using presents, it just shows that a lot of the times it's the inspiration to how to use them, what to combine them with, that is the most important in creating a great song. One pointer though, it's pronounced "vang-GHEL-iss", I would really hoped for people, especially musicians, would put a bit of effort in making sure they know how the names of the artists they admire are pronounced. It just shows good musical culture. All the best!
Enjoyed your video José, thanks. I believe the Blade Runner brass sound was Brass 1 & 2, but with the channel two detuned with the CH II Detune lever, that you didnt mention in the video. That would make the sound a little fatter.
Txx for your input - never thought of detuning…because the overall sound is always sligthly detuned - I wll give it a try! Overall consensus seems to be Brass 1 and 2 - which also means all the three patches were presets :-)
Fantastic composer he was. Taken me back to the 70s managing a record store. Inspiring. Beautiful having all those controls at hand. Nicer than my experience with the DX7. Thanks.
Spiral is my joint favourite Vangelis album along with Albedo 0.39 depending on my mood. It's a pity he didn't do more albums like Albedo. My favourite track though is Dervish D - I love playing it on sax or my Roland AE-30 wind synth.
@@josesvintagekeys no, not yet. I do have a full backing track but it's in Cubase on my Atari ST. I must make some time to put my MIDI setup back together and get all those old songs converted to audio! 😀
To my ear, no other synth generates sounds of such clarity and purity and harmonically thick richness than the CS80. What magical components did Yamaha use back in 1976??? (Great video, btw! Subscribed!)
It's great to see someone who loves these sounds as much as I do. For To the Unknown Man, try Guitar 1 up one octave and blend to taste. That's how I've gotten that sound on my Hydrasynth and Peak.
Thank you Jose for your time and insights. I was trying for many many years to recreate one of Vangelis's iconic sound but never managed to get it exactly. It is something between piano and rhodes.. you can hear it alot in his Antarctica album like Antarctica Echoes. On Memory of Antarctica we can hear a lot the modulation of that sound .. like a 'tail' at the end.. Was wondering how it could be done................
The Blade Runner theme that you played sounds really good but we can’t tell if you hit on the exact preset without listening to it along side the original track. Good job. Sounds great!👍
Thanks for this! Subscribed. Just got the Arturia CS80V - I loved your post where you compared the plugin to the real CS80 . ***any chance you can do a video where you recreate these sounds on the CS80V?*** (showing the settings for each as you did in the video with the quiz) Keep up the good work and thank you!
No one Vangelis instrumental went throw me like Bounty intro theme ! With music , he explained every situation at the story for sure hard , with out of exit .
Thank you for the reply concerning the effects used. Would it be possible for you to make a video about it how to setup the effect chain and the settings?
Amazing. I love Vangelis. He made so much for the ancient greek-latin culture from the Mediterranean. He was kind of a greek god come to Earth to show us how beautiful must sound the sounds of the Divine. He was constantly under inspiration of, who knows... some greek gods up there?
I'm a dumb guitar player and Vangelis is my hero. I heard he had his CS80 shipped from Japan and put on a train across Russia to London. The man was a one of a kind #genius
@@josesvintagekeys haha, I heard Jon Anderson tell a story that Vangelis had jammed with the YES guys potentially to join the band perhaps, and he proceeded to tell Steve Howe that the guitar wasn't a real instrument 😂 no wonder he did most of his work solo 😅 Guitar is only heard on a few of his tracks like Petite Fille de la Mer. Nicely played in the video. Did he play all the tracks live in that era do you know? As in, he didn't overdub and everything was recorded as 1 take or a mix of takes but he played all the instruments live ? There's a great recent documentary about him on YT with the Director of Chariots of Fire in the studio where he has around 17 foot pedals to blend the sounds live, it's crazy though he's playing his more recent symphonic stuff which I personally wasn't a fan of but incredible to watch. More Vangelis please you do it so well. I spotted the CS80 in the Barbie video for "I'm Just Ken" along with flash and EVHs son, I swear it had to be the video Director paying homage 🌈 RIP Vangelis
I didn't know that the ribbon controller was used to make all these pitch falls in Vangelis music. Thank you for that last trick. Interresting. Now I shall have to go buy a ribbon controller or something like that...
Apart from the real purpose of the video which is the music, I couldn’t let notice how preserved this unit is like if the CS80s were still being made by Yamaha today
Closest I will ever get to a CS 80 is my Arminator 2 VST. I will try to do the same what you have done here. Bravo. Beautiful sounds. I remember seeing Blade Runner in theater for first time and the music was spellbinding. The only thing comparable today is Hans Zimmer Dune.
2 ways. In a full production (like Bounty) I stack different synths: Jx10, Jup8, JD999, RS505. In a demo I make my live easy and use the Vangelis sounds from Onmisphere. They sound incredible!
How magical. You are so lucky to have this. Absolutely love the CS80 . Great demo !!!!! SUBBED 😊.Richard Tandy from E.L.O used one of these also,, and in the OUT OF THE BLUE tour 78. Question?? Would you be happy to have a go at talking about one of the effects he used for the song Telephone line from that concert?? Would love to see how it was done !! A great version of this song is found on TH-cam from Mvid fan, it's a great clear copy, beautiful. I noticed in that version, the 2 intros are slightly different from each other and has a nice aftertouch and through the chorus has a lovely blend of strings or some type of sound, you can see Richard changing some settings in the vid...
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Ohhhhhh WOW!! Subbed now.
the invitation stands; but after the interview I understand why you are so busy :-)#losangelesheredrmixcomes
I'm a simple man. I see a CS80, especially regarding Vangelis... I click. I subscribe.
It's great to meet fellow simple man ;-)
An absolutely beautiful instrument, and one of the rarest. Vangelis always poured emotion into his music, and as soon as you hear the model CS80, the only name that comes up is Vangelis.
Bladerunner became my favourite movie because of the atmosphere. The soundtrack, along with the visuals and brilliant acting make it untouchable.
The CS-80 just sounds SOOOO lush and magical. It really is the greatest synth of all times. There are other synths that are amazing, but the way the CS-80 used the polyphonic aftertouch to control the filter, gave it such an amazing expressiveness. True greatness. Of course, the performer also makes a big difference, as Vangelis truly could make this instrument sing like the voice of an angel. And I'm not even religious 🤣
Vangelis was out of this world…I feel very humble
Vangelis changed my life and makes me emotional every time I hear him. Direct, emotive and genuine in every note. I love this video and honestly would watch it if it was hours longer! Cheers!
Brass 1&2, resonance zero, and most important general filter to minimum, then modulation with aftertouch . And Lexicon 224 reverb.
Vangelis was a true master. His synths always sound organic. His albums Spiral and Albedo 0.39 haven't dated in the slightest.
Dear Jose, thanks so much for doing the video about the Vangelis' sound on CS-80, no one ever made such a detailed how-to video on TH-cam. Have a great weekend!
A great weeked to you as well!
Great presentation- even Vangelis would have been pleased to hear this
I certainly hope so!
What an incredible amazing synthesizer and the greatest synthesizer ever made. Used to make incredible music by one of the greatest musicians of all time. RIP Vangelis, you absolute legend.
Vangelis and a CS80 - it doesnt get any better!
@@josesvintagekeys Exactly mate! Exactly!
great job... Vangelis was a genius. I still hear I hear you now playing forever
That Blade Runner theme, what a soundscape…
Great to hear these iconic sounds reproduced and played so well! Big congrats Jose 👍👍👍. RIP Vangelis
to the unknown man, one of my all time favorite tracks, and remains so all these years later... it was so interesting to watch you recreate how Vangelis made it and the other tracks you played
Vangelis was the Greatest Composer and he will stay that way forever.
sounds amazing!!
I only have to work on my presence - than again blue is my colour ;-)
Excellent breakdown of the signature Vangelis sound!
RIP Vangelis. We wil never forget what a great musician he was. Back than in Aphrodite’s Child as with Jon Anderson as well as his solo albums. My favorites are 666, Heaven and Hell, Spiral.
Noooooo I did not know he died, where was all the coverage on TV! Bloody media. If it was a crappy politition it would be all over the place.
he died? it can't be true
Sadly so@@Galova
Really enjoyed this, thanks for taking the time to put it together. It's incredible how different the real CS80 sounds compared to the many VST emulations. I have both the ME80 and CS80V, both of which are great sounding synths but they don't quite hit the spot compared to the real thing. Cheers!
How about the AN1x virtual analog synth? I bought a used one eight years ago for around $250. I call it my "Blade Runner machine. Thank god I bought it then, because now the prices are well over a grand. It actually has a preset called "Vangelis", but that patch doesn't sound anything like these sounds. But it sounds pretty damn good.
All Three songs are some of my most favourite Vangelis songs. You sir play beautifully, and hearing them again, gave me chills! Thank you!
Very accurate analysis and considerations, emotions included. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thanks, Jose, for the really great job. I Know, how difficult it is, to rebuild a sound on a vintage synth, but you matched it. :-) Great!!!
Very nice, what a superb synthesizer collection you have!
Great channel, great video, doesn't try to sell nothing, knows how to play, the sound is great and the camera work is fabulous.
Looking forward for more videos.
Thank you.
Anything Vangelis emidiately gets my attention. Great video sir
Txxs toyota tech!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!
Very nice! Great sounds.
Fantastic. Brilliant insight and for this 66 year old lover of all things prog and electronic, those sounds brought the memories flooding back. Thank you 👏👏👏
For me it all started with the sound of Pink Floyd - that got me into synths and keys. Actually I love my Rhodes, Wurli and CP70 as much as I love my synths
Evanghelis Odysseas Papathanassiou (if that is correct?)... That beautiful human being. He entered my heart, my soul...my everything. I love him forever! R.I.P.
mine too!
@@josesvintagekeys Than we are both lucky victims❤ I looked it up: Evanghelos Odysseas Papathanasiou should be the right pronunciation/with such a name all is good...whatever you do in life!
Excellent video! I think this will become a very popular video, and I hope you continue to make more like this.
Well,next to the real thing, you are the master of getting the Vangelis sound on your Prophet!
Absolutely fantastic! Great performance!
Very nice!!!! I always wanted to know about how that amazing sounds was conceived. Thaks for posting, José.
Excellent work recreating these sounds...iconic
A great composer, sadly missed, and a beautiful instrument. Personally my greatest moment of "wow, I never knew that was a CS80" was when I found out they used one for the opening sound effect on the new Doctor Who theme in the 1980s (it was the ring modulator).
yep, amongst the most iconic uses of the instrument: Ringmod voor Dr. Who - but also the bassline was played on the CS
you will njoy the quiz I have just uploaded :-)
So beautiful (I can't move from my chair)... Thank you very much!!!
One of the greatest artist of the 20th century with the extraordinary sound of the CS80 ... thank you, Jose 👍
Great Video thanks so much for doing this - I have already started playing all my old Vangelis albums - Cheers pj
You’ll have a great time!
Great homage to an iconic synth and a musical genius
I LOVE This. Thank you for creating this video. I"m old now but in 1980 as a college student I would go into my local music store in Albany NY just to sit and play and dream about owning this instrument. I never did get to own one but wow it was fun seeing what you did in this video. Thank you
Vangelis + Anderson is magic.
Learned so much from my dads Vangelis (and others like Kitaro, Pink Floyd, Mostly Autumn, Marillion, and many more) collection.
Glad we could see a rerun of Blade Runner together back in 2019. Just one year before he passed.
Man that soundtrack needs to be heard in a Dolby theater.
I would love to see more of these video studies, and I hope someday you make a video about Vangelis' masterpiece "Reve" from Opera Sauvage.
All of Opera Sauvage is a masterpiece.
What a wonderful sounding machine.
it is!
I wouldn't add the 'extra brass' in the end.. instead use one of the two starters, they don't seem to differ that much. Simply beautiful demonstration though! It's truly a timeless instrument. Thanks for the video.
I bought Soil Festivities in 1992 and it's been my go to relaxation album ever since - timeless, simple and yet so complex
You made me feel so happy with those songs. I was taken from the sunny Miami to the French Riviera... laid under the sun.
What a sublime video. Enjoyed it immensely. Thank you Jose.
@@philipmulville8218 Txxs Philip. Glad uou enjoyed it
@@philipmulville8218 Glad you enjoyed it!
Every time I hear Vangelis' sound and harmony, my whole being goes into another dimension. And so for more than 40 years... Great job Jose. Thank you dude. Subscribe... ❤
We share the feeling Oliver
thats very interesting for me to use my reface , the pictures in the studio are nice
Really enjoyed that, thanks.
WoW, It sounds Big & glorious! Congrats!
How beautifull layering sounds!!!❤
Great video. Always nice to see great composers also using presents, it just shows that a lot of the times it's the inspiration to how to use them, what to combine them with, that is the most important in creating a great song. One pointer though, it's pronounced "vang-GHEL-iss", I would really hoped for people, especially musicians, would put a bit of effort in making sure they know how the names of the artists they admire are pronounced. It just shows good musical culture. All the best!
Thank you very much, great job. What an amazing and iconic instrument!
You did really well there Sir. Keep them coming. I wonder what Vangelis would have done with the Seaboard Rise 2, with its 5d expression.
WOW! chills down my spine.
💚Bravo !! Magnifique !
Interesting vivid sound...
Enjoyed your video José, thanks. I believe the Blade Runner brass sound was Brass 1 & 2, but with the channel two detuned with the CH II Detune lever, that you didnt mention in the video. That would make the sound a little fatter.
Txx for your input - never thought of detuning…because the overall sound is always sligthly detuned - I wll give it a try! Overall consensus seems to be Brass 1 and 2 - which also means all the three patches were presets :-)
Thanks for making this. Great to hear and see it.
Fantastic composer he was. Taken me back to the 70s managing a record store. Inspiring. Beautiful having all those controls at hand. Nicer than my experience with the DX7. Thanks.
Spiral is my joint favourite Vangelis album along with Albedo 0.39 depending on my mood. It's a pity he didn't do more albums like Albedo. My favourite track though is Dervish D - I love playing it on sax or my Roland AE-30 wind synth.
Have you shared it on YT?
@@josesvintagekeys no, not yet. I do have a full backing track but it's in Cubase on my Atari ST. I must make some time to put my MIDI setup back together and get all those old songs converted to audio! 😀
I'll always watch Vangelis content
So cool. I love trying to do these sounds with the Arturia vst version of it.
Amazing synth
Sprial's title track is wickedly good.... The arpeggio intro sounds like it's from another planet
I think that arpeggio was done on a Roland system 100
Que sintetizador tan hermoso ❤ gracias por hacerme recordar la música Vangelis ❤
How dammn good it does sound! The CS-80 is amazing.
To my ear, no other synth generates sounds of such clarity and purity and harmonically thick richness than the CS80. What magical components did Yamaha use back in 1976??? (Great video, btw! Subscribed!)
It's great to see someone who loves these sounds as much as I do. For To the Unknown Man, try Guitar 1 up one octave and blend to taste. That's how I've gotten that sound on my Hydrasynth and Peak.
Inspiring!!
Thank you Jose for your time and insights.
I was trying for many many years to recreate one of Vangelis's iconic sound but never managed to get it exactly.
It is something between piano and rhodes.. you can hear it alot in his Antarctica album like Antarctica Echoes.
On Memory of Antarctica we can hear a lot the modulation of that sound .. like a 'tail' at the end..
Was wondering how it could be done................
8:00 - I think the programmed patch you made was spot on
Una joya tecnológica de la electrónica antigua! Pero aún vigente!
The Blade Runner theme that you played sounds really good but we can’t tell if you hit on the exact preset without listening to it along side the original track. Good job. Sounds great!👍
next i will add short clips of the original - if that is allowed vis a vis copyright laws
absolute Great
Thanks for this! Subscribed. Just got the Arturia CS80V - I loved your post where you compared the plugin to the real CS80 . ***any chance you can do a video where you recreate these sounds on the CS80V?*** (showing the settings for each as you did in the video with the quiz) Keep up the good work and thank you!
No one Vangelis instrumental went throw me like Bounty intro theme ! With music , he explained every situation at the story for sure hard , with out of exit .
Suscrito! gracias por tu video. Saludos desde Chile
great video would be awesome if you could explain the effect chain as well reverb, chorus, etc. and their combination.
no chorus, only lexicon 224 plug in and H delay by waves
Thank you for the quick reply, would it be possible for you to make a video about it how to setup the effect chain and the settings?
Txxs again for the question, I made a video about it :-) th-cam.com/video/746TSq0u4RQ/w-d-xo.html
I loved his work with Jon Anderson. Arturia made a lovely CS-80 emulation.
fully agree! It is still my favorite work by him
Thank you for the reply concerning the effects used. Would it be possible for you to make a video about it how to setup the effect chain and the settings?
Very interesting thank you
Very cool
Wow...my prefer. Artist...Vangelis forever...
Amazing. I love Vangelis. He made so much for the ancient greek-latin culture from the Mediterranean. He was kind of a greek god come to Earth to show us how beautiful must sound the sounds of the Divine. He was constantly under inspiration of, who knows... some greek gods up there?
thanks very much for uploading
I'm a dumb guitar player and Vangelis is my hero. I heard he had his CS80 shipped from Japan and put on a train across Russia to London. The man was a one of a kind #genius
Nice story.BTW: guitarplayers are great!
@@josesvintagekeys haha, I heard Jon Anderson tell a story that Vangelis had jammed with the YES guys potentially to join the band perhaps, and he proceeded to tell Steve Howe that the guitar wasn't a real instrument 😂 no wonder he did most of his work solo 😅 Guitar is only heard on a few of his tracks like Petite Fille de la Mer. Nicely played in the video. Did he play all the tracks live in that era do you know? As in, he didn't overdub and everything was recorded as 1 take or a mix of takes but he played all the instruments live ?
There's a great recent documentary about him on YT with the Director of Chariots of Fire in the studio where he has around 17 foot pedals to blend the sounds live, it's crazy though he's playing his more recent symphonic stuff which I personally wasn't a fan of but incredible to watch. More Vangelis please you do it so well. I spotted the CS80 in the Barbie video for "I'm Just Ken" along with flash and EVHs son, I swear it had to be the video Director paying homage 🌈 RIP Vangelis
This was so great to see, really got those sounds perfect. Just one small quibble - The Unknown Man is in triple time, not 44!
oooooopssssss! one of my weak
spots. txxs for the feedback
love Vangelis!
2:13 ...."i hear you now !"
4:14 ..."To the unknow man"
I didn't know that the ribbon controller was used to make all these pitch falls in Vangelis music. Thank you for that last trick. Interresting.
Now I shall have to go buy a ribbon controller or something like that...
Definitely Brass 1 and 2. The way it cuts through the background pad in unmistakable.
Hi, in my opinion at the end is Brass 2. Nice video.
Apart from the real purpose of the video which is the music, I couldn’t let notice how preserved this unit is like if the CS80s were still being made by Yamaha today
Closest I will ever get to a CS 80 is my Arminator 2 VST. I will try to do the same what you have done here. Bravo. Beautiful sounds. I remember seeing Blade Runner in theater for first time and the music was spellbinding. The only thing comparable today is Hans Zimmer Dune.
Hey Jose
Ty for the Cs 80 Vangelis videos. Could you also explain how you make the pad sounds ?
Tyvm
Xbros
2 ways. In a full production (like Bounty) I stack different synths: Jx10, Jup8, JD999, RS505. In a demo I make my live easy and use the Vangelis sounds from Onmisphere. They sound incredible!
The China album was stunning. Still love it now 😊
How magical. You are so lucky to have this. Absolutely love the CS80 . Great demo !!!!! SUBBED 😊.Richard Tandy from E.L.O used one of these also,, and in the OUT OF THE BLUE tour 78. Question?? Would you be happy to have a go at talking about one of the effects he used for the song Telephone line from that concert?? Would love to see how it was done !! A great version of this song is found on TH-cam from Mvid fan, it's a great clear copy, beautiful. I noticed in that version, the 2 intros are slightly different from each other and has a nice aftertouch and through the chorus has a lovely blend of strings or some type of sound, you can see Richard changing some settings in the vid...
CS 80's brass voices sound amazingly thick ...
you are amazing 100 persent