Yamaha CS01-II Synthesizer Demo

[AnthonyDavid94]

The riff...amazing...favorite....t­hank you man!

[nickybendix]

Damn, I miss mine:)) Sold it many years ago -. such a great little synth:))

[GCom67]

Yeah!! Sounds really good :)

[stormcrow70]

It that the only battery power analog. Sounds great I want one.

[INNER1111]

nice demo

[Gazdatronik]

This is awesome, both in execution and content. I too share a love of single synth productions. Look up Micromoog on wikipedia. Make your song available in a similar manner because I must have it.

[ShadowlightSE]

Hi,

I just fixed my tb303 with sockets to controll slide, accen, filter, and bought Kenton Pro-200. I want to control accent in cubase but it doesnt work. Do I have to setup the Kenton in som way in Cubase first, before I can control for exampel "accent" in cubase (velocity)?

[hfyuutr]

I've just wasted time listening to this justice shit, so called electro artists who can't make music without a sampler, now this sounds retro and refreshing as well. Have you come up with the full track yet ?

[peahix]

no, maybe sometime though... i actually think justice is pretty good for what they do... at least what little i've heard from them...

[thedivinechemical]

I agree. Fuck Justice. Fuck Daft Punk. Pretty much fuck everything that's come out in the last ten years in electronic music. It all sounds like shit. Bad compositions and thin little soft synths.

[allrequiredfields]

Well, I'll certainly agree that they've received too much credit for doing so little. But you're just a critic if you're trying to say what they've done isn't genuinely entertaining - especially D.P..

[thedivinechemical]

DP puts on an entertaining show, but their musicianship is lacking and their songs are boring and repetitive. There's no substance in modern electronic music.

[allrequiredfields]

That's what everybody says when they get old. This is why we cease to be relevant as we get older. It amazes me that my generation hasn't figured that out, with all the old farts that complained about our music - *shaky, agitated voice* 'this is just noise! In my day, you could hear what they were saying and it wasn't so loud!'

There is good electronic music now (Cut Copy, The rapture, etc.) but I will say that it definitely sucked in the 90's.

[thedivinechemical]

Don't play the age game, because I'm still in my twenties and hate modern electronic music. The stuff in the 90's was fucking awesome: Shpongle, Astral Projection, Juno Reactor, Crystal Method, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Sasha, Prodigy, Apollo 440, Skinny Puppy, William Orbit... they all had movement and originality. Modern electronic is for the most part just sampling the better parts of the 80's, but making it sound like crap with overabuse of sidechain compression.

[allrequiredfields]

lolwut? NONE of the band we've talked about use side-chain compression - that stuff is just the backwash of the shit from the nineties. Chem Bros had 5 or 6 good songs, Skinny Puppy had moments but please, that shit was for chavs and tweakers - pass the E! By tweakers, for tweakers. Electronic music pretty much died in about '88.

[thedivinechemical]

Sir, opinions are like assholes, and if you don't like Skinny Puppy, then you really need to soak yours in bleach.

[allrequiredfields]

...hey now, no shit was talked about skinny puppy.

From one asshole to another, 90's electronic music almost completely sucked ...Propellerheads were fucking rad though. Another big missing element in the 90's was danceability - unless you did that bouncing dance like you just took a shit in your pants. And holy fuck, don't even get me started on Rave.

[thedivinechemical]

Okay, I think I see what's going on here, you and I were just into two different scenes in the 90's. Aside from trance, I hate most dance music and was more into Propellerheads, Massive Attack, Autechre, Prodigy, and the like.

[allrequiredfields]

Yeah, any of that sub-genre of a sub-genre shit (house, dub, drum and bass, jungle and whatever the fuck else) is just terminally nerdy to me. The real stuff that is coming out now is not at all related to the E/meth-fueled rave bullshit of the 90's. It's way more pulling from new wave and italio-disco as opposed to coming out of the previous generation. Mainstream now -well, I certainly don't like the almost emo-ish, pounding kick and hi-hat, with some chick whining/crying pathetically over it.

[fishefood]

@allrequiredfields -''E/meth-fueled rave bullshit'' Hey that sounds like hate-speech...Rave-on! (Glow sticks a flyin) ;-)

[NessieSanzerbeard]

So today's dance music is reactionary and redundant?  I'd have to agree!

[mmmrenkas]

yeah!

why do they like sidechain so much?

they think it pumps but nothing pumps like a nice saturated tape

[hectorsland]

what the hell...justice have a fucking huge analog system!

[hfyuutr]

what I heard from justice was a tune consisting of the main theme from Argento's movie Tenebrae, sampled and placated over a drum sequence that itself sounded like a Daft Punk sample. Great achievement. you don't need a huge analog system to do that.

[hfyuutr]

NICE

[bornhuman2]

you made the drums with this synth too?? would be interested to know how. I have same synth (mark 1) and though i've managed quite synthy sounding percussion sounds (~ "being boiled"), have never achieved such punchy real sounding drums as you have here.

[peahix]

you need the mkii to get the resonance zaps, kick drum, etc. then it helps to layer sounds on the computer- ie, in this track, the snare is made from a resonance zap and some white noise, on two individual tracks in cubase.

[rafaelleonard]

good demonstration performance!

synthesizer is very wonderful.

I like techno music.

[tinnedmeat]

Blimey - I bought one when they came out as my first "synth". Amazing! Must still be in the loft somewhere.

[UDSOUDS]

so, will you please sell it to me?? :-]

[MarWax]

There is also a 'breath controller' input in the CS01! I own one but never found any shop selling these controllers.

[bornhuman2]

I've occasionally seen second-hand ones (eg. eBay) ...but am a bit squeamish about getting a used breath controller. eurgh.

[iamyourholiness]

sweet

[bostich1]

one for sale in ebay

[retrosound72]

very cool

[infinitium]

Hi i e-mailed kenton but they say they doesn´t sell the kit for the cs01 anymore.Which company did you buy it from ?

Conny

[peahix]

i'm pretty sure it was synhouse

[infinitium]

I recently bought a Yamaha CS01-II, i would also like to retrofit mine with CV/Gate jacks could.Could you please tell me where to ship it to get this done ?

Best regards Conny

[peahix]

i don't think the company i ordered mine from makes it anymore, but i think maybe kenton makes a kit for the cs01?

[infinitium]

Wow i really like this song and sounds.Maybe you have some more songs we all could listen to.

Do you recommend buying this synth ?

Does it use cv / gate ?

[therezabizarre]

dairy farming....

[LoparXL]

Aaaah yeah! Rock on.

[Cubik303]

Very cool! Hard to believe all those sounds came from that little monosynth! Great job multi-tracking.

[enemencio123music]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[VoltageControlled]

I found one of the Mark 1 CS01's in a storage closet in my school (I also found a Casio SK-1 and a Juno 106!) The CS-01 is alot of fun. Cool song, too.