cs-80 history

[fender1000100]

This is going backwards. THE YAMAHA DX7 MK2 is the greatest achievement in synthesiser history. It will blow a CS80 out of the water real or virtual. And you dont need 4 men to carry it around. It is the masterpiece of alltime.

[ReflexiveBeef]

anyone wanna give me one?

[ClassicTVMan81]

Cool-sounding brass sample at 0:45.

[AiwaMail]

What a sound...

[gavincurtis]

From my understanding less than 800 were made. Yamaha said 2000 were made, but serial number from the factory begins at 1000. Nobody has found #1800 or higher nor has any serial number less than 1000 been found. Anybody know more about this?

I am proud father of # 1306 :D

[zedster911]

this has always been on my wish list.... along with a Moog Modular and a Roland System 770

[gavincurtis]

@zedster911

Jupiter 8 would be nice too :)

[noddyspuncture]

those huge and brightly coloured 'rocker' switches are actually push buttons - funny how the narrator on the 'cs80 history' video has obviously never even been near one... and it's two EIGHT voice synths by the way... pah!

[TruenotesMusic]

Everybody claims it sounds the same, it doesn't. Did you even hear a real CS in your life?

I don't care if I understand digital or not, I own the dam thing so I would know better than YOU.

Funny how when I show people in person how they all agree with me. Analog is the Shit!

Digital audio suppose to emulate what the real "suppose" to sound like. It sounds good

in theory, but not in real life.

Of yea, I won a Jupiter as well and same story with Jupiter V8 software. Sorry.....

[patotostudio]

i've used in the past many analogue shit for my music , but i'm kinda tired from it now ... i can synthesize whatever i want to synthesize , and give it a proper character if i want , using only digital devices .. i know how it sounds in real, and i know how to give it as i said proper character in digital domain .. and what ? , is this something wrong with it U think ? ..

[patotostudio]

answer is ask yr'self , as long as U using in a true creative way for example 15 CS 80's at once ..

Many of todays producers just don't understand how to use all this plugin stuff, many ..

[TruenotesMusic]

You can do what you want. There are a lot of great things that come with digital devices. But funny when digital music started dominating the music industry, music just isnt that good anymore. There is very little creativity now a days. In the digital era.

People got lazy, and i think that was your case. I agree digital got the bells and whisles. But that doesnt mean it sounds as good as the real deal.

Analog is so much thicker and warmer in sound.

I use both digital and analog stuff. I know.

[patotostudio]

yes.. exactly i do what i want to do , and i have only one problem .. good/bad problem .. im no victim of those "analog-digital war" ...

the most funny thing is, all of these analog purist sounds exactly the same and boring as hell , no invention, no fresh-look, no nothing .. only wannabe as funky as for example moroder was .. this is funny.

[patotostudio]

and i'm not lazy! .. i'm just out of time or have no time to make one track in 12 months due to analog gear limits ...i live from music - i hope u understand it.

one question, last question .. my dear ..

tell me .. what's Y'r recorder device ..

[kotep777]

one hundred percent

[TruenotesMusic]

Keep lying to yourself.

[kotep777]

whatever man......you keep lying to yourself

[TruenotesMusic]

Why do people say that Arturia sounds like the real CS-80? IT DOESNT! The real thing sounds so much warmer and smoother its like night and day. Stop saying that unless you heard the real thing!.....SALES PEOPLE! THEY PAID PEOPLE TO SAY THAT!

[lbquota]

Yeah man, nothin's gonna beat the REAL ONES!

ICs cannot replicate exactly the sound of analog synths or effects, period.

[progjazzfusion]

IC's can be analog and digital. IC just means 'integrated circuit'...of analog or digital design. The CS80 has analog IC's. Most old synths used IC's in the first place, with the possible exception some very early mono synths that used transistors. Analog IC's are mostly just lots of transistors made smaller to fit in a IC package.

[patotostudio]

u must be an idiot ? .. first try to understand what digital audio is, an why is .. then .. compare it with the analog shit ...

all of these synths recreations sounds the same, in a sense , but not in character which is ? .. tell me U genius of the sound ..

[1980MF1980]

Soft synths etc where convenience and practicality are valued over sound is partly why music has degenerated so much. Lots more but not near the quality!!!!

[blue280z]

I had CS 5,10,15,50,60 and 80.

Never liked any of them. The CS-80 was nice late at night for Brian Eno Ambient-ish music.

[trap0001]

Arturia have done a great job with their emulator but I'm sorry, if it doesn't weigh as much as a tank or go out of tune just by looking at it then I'm simply not interested!

[TruenotesMusic]

I own a real CS keyboard and Arturia software, And Arturia is sounds like SHIT compared to the real thing. I'm sorry the quality cant be compared.

[21Division]

We always hear "it's not like the real thing, it's not like the real thing..yeah , yeah, we know". Of course nothing is like the real thing but unless you're talking about sex, sugar and blues music....the rest of us can't really tell the difference and are all losing our hearing anyways.

[fadplastic]

robj200735 Robert Moog the inventor of MOOG is pronounced MOGE,

mow - oge, as in mow the lawn there's an ogre coming. Don't know how many people fail to grasp this simple concept.

[robj200735]

It's MOOG. What the fuck is a "Moge"? Lose the lame-ass british accent

[Umby64]

The British ones are the english language's original accents and inflections, so it would be a good thing if you shut your fucking trap once for all

[robj200735]

Freedom of speech, get used to it asshole

[robj200735]

And English wouldn't exist were it not for Greek, Latin, and old Norse language so shut your trap and get your facts straight

[djfakt]

"It's MOOG. What the fuck is a "Moge"? Lose the lame-ass british accent "

People usually speak the most about what they know the least...

You fucking clown. It's pronounced MOGUE, like ROGUE...I'm American so don't start with any of that shit either. It's NOT MOOOOG.

[oxygene65]

I played on a real CS80 a long time ago and it blew me away. I have the Arturia soft synth version, and yes its great. BUT, I cant get any of the sounds from it to sit well in a mix with all my outboard gear. Its just too prominent ! I dont know whether thats a good thing or a bad thing. I wish I had £8000 to buy the real thing, but I dont think my studio floor could take the weight.

[RediForKing]

yeah and if you would have the 8k$ it would be more different to find one of those things because they are really rare.

[jupiter8]

Ah fuck it's just an ad for Arturia. I feel used and abused.

[robj200735]

Capitalism (sighs)

[kotep777]

haha got me too

[zzzxtreme]

wow cs80 documentary. pure gold!

[Uffebas57]

I remember when i heard Eddie Jobson in UK playing THE CS-80 in 1978. I was dreaming to have one.

It is curius that now nearly twenty years after I have Auturias CS-80 software synt on my computer that nearly could produce the fantastic sounds.

[ddyslexia]

I had two - and I still don't know why I got rid of them?

Oh yes - you cannot gig them - unless you are Peter Gabriel etc..

The best synth ever - if I had known no one would produce a better one....

[camerashycar]

One incorrect piece of information in this video - he says the CS80 is in fact two four voice instruments (re: the dual panel sliders) It is in fact two EIGHT voice instruments .... each 'side' has 8 voice cards. I know 'cos I got one...;^)

[athox]

100kgs!!! holly schmuck...

[LF0]

This video was boring, it contains images from another youtube link which is far more entertaining - as you have a better idea of the phat sound qualities rather then tech spec, which you could look up on vintagesynth.com.

What a depressing video about such an awesome polysynth

[pilmusic]

Borring ? I think this guy is brilliant. Just a synth and his description. What do you need more ...

[KRAFTWERK2K1]

by the way. The ribbon control was crappy emulated. Nothing can beat the original hardware!

[KRAFTWERK2K1]

IIIiiiii wanna have one!! Right now!!! You can do sooo much sounds. It's just amazing. And i love Sliders more than circular knobs.

[AutomaticGainsay]

This video would be VERY welcome in the Analog Synthesizers group!

[thommc]

i'm not sure how to add it but, tell me how and i'll do it, you may also be interested in some of my other synth video's too, check out my homepage to get them

[AutomaticGainsay]

Don't punish yourself. Get a CS-50... you'll miss out on some features... but the CS-80 and 50 use the same oscillators, etc. (just less of them). For the minor inconvenience of multitracking to get a CS-80-like sound, you'll miss out on major inconveniences like weight, price, and pitch issues... yet still get the delightful analog joy of the CS series. : )

[CountlovE]

The Arturia Software synth of the CS-80 sounds nothing like the real thing.

[thommc]

i Gotta agree with you its not 100%, they just cant program the idiosyncracies of the old instruments. the hands on aspect of the physical instrument in front of you has no software match

[Profisizer]

It didn't sound the same but I got it to respond to polyaftertouch with a Kurzweil Midiboard and liked the results as I don't actually own a real CS-80. Do I still want one? Yeah!

[Profisizer]

The guy says it's an 8 voice instrument (correct) he then says it's like 2 independent 4 voice instuments. That's wrong. It has 8 *pairs* of voices. Each voice in the pair has 1 VCO (rather than a typical 2 or 3), an LPF, a HPF (not typical), 2 envelopes. You can turn down the volume of one voice of the pair, but there is no way to play 16 voice polyphony.

[thommc]

i think the point thats trying to be made is essentially that there are two signal paths for the voices rather than actually two 4 voice instruments

[Profisizer]

...But the thing really has 8 voices. (the CS-60 has 8 one path voices and the CS-50 has 4 one path voices)

[ballbagular]

All your brass are belong to CS80