All user reviews of 4/5 for the Yamaha CS80

The Yamaha CS 80 is a very big unit. I do love the way that it is laid out though with color coded sliders, I think it looks cool and kind of makes some sense of all of the stuff on the board. This board is very big though and weighs about 150 or more pounds. So there wont be any taking it anywhere. You will want to leave this in the major studio, so I don’t know why someone would want this in their home unless they just have a good space to get it in. The Yamaha CS 80 has some amazing sounds that are very thick and phat. I didn’t think that sounds on this type of gear could be so fat. They are almost to fat and need to be eq some.


UTILIZATION

Using it will take about a day or two depending on how long you sit at the unit, you will have to learn where everything is so that when you want to do something you know exactly where that slider or knob is to tweak. But with the color coded stuff it kind of makes sense of everything for you once you get the hang of it.


SOUNDS

The sounds are by far the best thing about this unit. This has the best sounding phat sounds out of any piece of vintage gear that I have heard ever. This is the winner hands down as far as sound thickness goes. Also the ability to edit those sounds is pretty easy once you understand some basics.


OVERALL OPINION

This thing is huge, so don’t purchased it if you don’t have the room for it. There are two handles on it, but you probably wont be able to carry 150 plus pounds like it’s a suit case, its just too big for that.

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UTILIZATION

The config is as SVT with Yamaha surprising at first, but after hours QLQ experiments, it is clearly the most fabulous synth to play tps real parameter access is very instinctive, the resulting action immediate, the dosage should be done with subtlety.
No need for instructions as simplicity despite the very gd nb of control possible is the key word of this (very) big synth. (This is not the case Memorymmog Plus, the Prophet VS for example ...)

SOUNDS

I personally am not a fan of presets QLQ '1 except that I mix with one that I create (such as the use of guitar sound presets, presets and other percussive sounds mixed with a more long etc ... )
I do not like the two effects (which blow a little for that matter) that are vibrato and chorus).
The term is not "good" but EXCELLENT.

For me, the CS80 is comparable to a real acoustic instrument as the potential for modulation LIVEPAGE are great!
A cellist friend was surprised extrèmment expressiveness .... and yet he heard of bcp "big" polyphonic analog synths such as OBXa, Memmorymoog, 5/VS prophet, Synthex, etc ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 4 years.
Luckily, it is very fast tune, and just!
It is expensive but exceptional, except that a price must be near to invest a little more than a memmory but frankly here is the ... moreover, with one CSO is able to dethrone the low and below the lower memmorymoog!