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The CS-80V is the reproduction of the legendary Yamaha® CS-80, which was considered by many as the "ultimate polyphonic synthesizer", back in the late 70’s. It has been popularized by artists and groups like Toto, Jean-Michel Jarre, Keith Emerson, Stevie Wonder, Vangelis, Ultravox, Peter Gabriel… to name a few, and they all helped to turn this synthesizer into a real myth. More than twenty five years after its release, the time has come to rediscover a sound that has extensively contributed to the history of music...

FROM THE ORIGINAL MYTH...

In 1976, Yamaha introduced the CS-80, a synthesizer based on the same circuits as the GX1. The price tag ($6900) put it out of the reach of most musicians, and the weight (83kgs with stand) made it sometimes hard to use on stage. But the qualities of this synthesizer, considered Japans first great synthesizer, made it immediately famous in the Music Industry.

The CS-80 was popularised in the late 70’s and early 80’s by a number of pop groups, including Electric Light Orchestra, Toto, Paul McCartney and Wings. Other artists and bands like Vangelis, Bon Jovi, Jean-Michel Jarre, Geoffrey Down, Stevie Wonder and some others turned the CS-80 into a real myth.

Peter Forrest (in the A-Z of Analogue Synthesizers, Susurreal, First published 31/10/96) says: “When it comes to trying to decide which of the top-flight synths is the best ever, it’s not easy. (…) But if you are looking at richness of sound coupled with performance power, and sheer overkill, maybe nothing can touch it”.

... TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES

The CS-80V is the reproduction of the legendary Yamaha® CS-80, which is considered by many as the "ultimate polyphonic synthesizer". More than 25 years after its release, the time has come to rediscover a sound that has extensively contributed to the history of music...

The CS-80V offers all the features of the original synth, plus a new generation of innovative features, taking the original design to a new elevated level:

• A modulation matrix:to rebuild all circuits: a choice of 12 sources and 38 destinations for 10 additional modulations
• A Multi Mode: allowing to assign a different sound to each polyphonic voice. 4 different keyboard sections for "multitimbrality", with the possibility to direct each voice (4 polyphonic modes, and 3 unison modes from 2 to 8 voices).
• An arpeggiator and a stereo delay

Benefit from the experience of the best sound designers

The CS-80V comes loaded with more than 400 presets made by a selection of talented sound designers.

Main Features:

• All the original parameters of the Yamaha CS-80: 2 oscillators, 4 filters (high pass, low pass), 2 LFOs, 4 envelopes, 2 VCAs, 1 sub-oscillator (LFO), 1 ring modulator, chorus and tremolo
• New effect: Delay
• New Multi Mode: assign a different sound to each of the 8 voices of polyphony!
• New Modulation Matrix with 12 sources to modulate a choice of 38 destination parameters
• More than 400 presets made by a selection of the most famous sound designers
• Polyphonic aftertouch
• 1 Arpeggiator
• Expression and sustain pedals
• Ribbon controller
• No aliasing from 0.1 Hz to 16 kHz
• 64-bit floating point precision
• Sampling rate: up to 96 kHz

Platform Specification:

• Windows: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher and Universal Binary

Required Configuration:

• PC/Windows: 512 MB RAM; 1,5 GHz CPU
• Mac OS X : 512 MB RAM; 1,5 GHz CPU

Copy Protection

The installation CD is only required each time you want to import new banks of presets or when you install an update patch of the product.