In my last post I presented some demos of the Yamaha CS-70M in a tribute post. Now it's time for the big brother, the Yamaha CS-80, synthesizer of synthesizers. This legendary piece of gear is almost mythical. I'm not even sure that it exists!

Here are some great clips/demos of the Yamaha CS-80 in action. It's nice to see that a lot of people care about their CS-80s so this piece of music history is kept alive. And from what I've heard the CS-80 requires almost constant repairs and service.

Enjoy...

From CountLovE Yamaha CS80 using patches flute/ brass 2. Slight modulation added to VCOs. Signal chain: CS80--Eventide 2016 reverb--Siemens 295b EQ--Prism Sound Orpheus (Ihavesynth: some really nice detuned oscillators here...)

From Wutierson Test session with Sergio Koval playing his Yamaha CS-80 at Synthoma studio. The test is a chorus comparison with the CS-80 built-in chorus, a Digitech multieffect chorus, and the élkorus analog bbd chorus. Now the CS-80 can do a very nice strings, not only brasses!! More info about élkorus and synthoma in general, at www.synthoma.net

Pt 1 from Galaxiesmerge My Yamaha CS80 synthesizer. The string sounds on this are amazing. Look at Blade Runner that was scored with a CS80 keyboard by Vangelis. This is recorded using my home video camera and its built in microphone. 

Pt 2 from Galaxiesmerge Poly Pressure, Poly Velocity and expression pedal Arpeggio sequence. Fat thick Brass sounds. Deep sweeping Funky crazy sounds. Thanks to ingsoc_1979 for some comments and discussion - so the classic brass is for you! Next time I'll do PWM Strings. Very wide range of tonal modulation in this video.

3 Vangelis clips. It is impossible to have a post about the Yamaha CS-80 without mentioning Vangelis.

From analoghell Vangelis demonstrating a Yamaha CS80.

From Carellister Vangelis improvising on the famous Yamaha CS80...

From Mart138 A chance to pay tribute to this great Ridley Scott film on its 25th Anniversary using the main titles and end credits from Vangelis brilliant score.

Is there someone out there who likes my work and feels like sponsoring Ihavesynth.com by buying me a CS-80? Anyone :-) ?

This is quite impressive. The theme Vangelis made for Bladerunner with his Yamaha CS-80 is here played on a vintage Roland Juno 60. All the sounds you hear in the clip is from a Juno 60.

Fantastic dreamy piece of work. Perfect for a soft sathurday night.

You can never get to much of Vangelis, Yamaha CS-80 and Yamaha CP-80 electric piano, so here is one more clip. Here, the Greek God of the CS-80 gives us some beautiful tones from those detuned CS-80 oscillators.

Youtube via ptpt88