Product Description

The Arturia CS-80V is the reproduction of the legendary Yamaha(R) 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 the 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.

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

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 and a stereo delay

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(R), the proprietary technology developed by Arturia, and already successfully used in the Moog Modular V.

Technical Description

Required Configuration

PC :
Pentium II 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, Windows 9x/2000/ME/XP

MAC :
G3 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, MacOS 9.x, Mac OS X 10.2

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.

Copy protection: the installation CD is only required each time you want to import new banks of presets or when you install an update patch of the product.

iLok compatible

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