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...

Extended information

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 achieved 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 and upper level:

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

Technical specifications

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 9.1 or higher, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

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.