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 arpeggiatorBut 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 destinationsSystem RequirementsPC * Pentium II 500 MHz * 128 MB of RAM * Windows 9x/2000/ME/XPMac * G3 500 MHz * 128 MB of RAM * MacOS 9.1 or higher * Mac OS X 10.2 or higherSound Card * Any sound card compatible with DirectX, ASIO, SoundManager or CoreAudio |
