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...

In 1976, Yamaha introduced the CS-80. The price tag ($6,900) put it out of reach of most musicians, and the weight (220 lbs or 100 kg) made it sometimes hard to use on stage...But the qualities of the CS-80, considered as 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 artists and groups like Toto, Jean-Michel Jarre, Keith Emerson, Stevie Wonder or Vangelis, who helped to turn this synthesizer into a real myth.

• A modulation matrix
• A multitimbral mode
• An arpeggiator

But is the sound of the CS-80V really close to the original? We would tend to say yes, as the synthesizer is based on TAE®, the proprietary technology developed by Arturia, and already successfully used in the Moog Modular V.

Features

• Stereo synthesizer
• Polyphonic (8 voices)
• No aliasing from 0.1 Hz to 16 kHz
• 64-bit floating point precision
• Sampling rate: up to 96 kHz
• More than 400 presets, made by professionals
• Playable through a MIDI keyboard
• 2 oscillators
• 4 filters
• 2 LFOs
• 4 ADSR envelopes
• 2 VCAs
• 1 sub-oscillator (for vibrato)
• 1 arpeggiator
• 1 stereo delay
• 1 chorus
• 1 ring modulator
• Expression and sustain pedals
• Ribbon controller
• Polyphonic after touch
• Multi mode (allowing to assign a different sound to each polyphonic voice)
• Modulation matrix: a choice of 12 sources and 38 destinations

System Requirements

PC

• Pentium II 500 MHz
• 128 MB of RAM
• Windows 9x/2000/ME/XP

Mac

• G3 500 MHz
• 128 MB of RAM
• MacOS 9.1 or higher
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Sound Card

• Any sound card compatible with DirectX, ASIO, SoundManager or CoreAudio

A 260-paged paper manual is provided in 3 languages: French, English and Japanese.