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.
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
- 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.
