All user reviews of 3/5 for the Yamaha CS2X

Paid: $1400(Australian)
Acquired this synth because my hands were itchy!!

This synth has nice sounding ambient sound and i would recommend it for ambient and new age playing. Yamaha made this model as a dance style model with cutoff and resonance knobs and arpeggios. Unlike other Yamaha models with only old style keyboard functions to it.

Though it was designed for dance, it lags the warm needed in dance music, and the arpeggios are so lagging and so outworldly. In dance, still Roland is "King" and Roland synths are still the warm, strong arpeggios kinda stuff, besides the Nova Superstation and Virus Access. Besides that, it's cutoff and resonance EQ's are as strong as well, and that's no way i can tweak it till full max high screeching sound.

The sound quality is sweet and ambient, and it has some effects in it which are pretty useful. It's drumparts are average.
Kinda easy to use, though hard to tweak the PEG settings. Really lagging in layering though.

This is quite multipurpose, and very ambient/New Age. More on the semi-professional standard type of style. But pretty good considering Yamaha standards. I'm not a Yamaha fan, they are so based on natural instruments that everything they design is mostly for the natural sound. Their electronic instruments are like a "halfway" kinda thing.

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