Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

Here is the story:

I never cared about Vangelis, in a way (and forgive us for being
arrogant when we were young) he was uncool like Jarre was uncool.
While Bladerunner was cool, I obviously was not cool enough, because I
never saw the movie until 1991. I did however love electronic music. I
still remember as a kid being in the music section of a big department
store when for the first time I heard the solo in Lucky Man.

I never cared about the CS-80, polysynths were out of reach anyway.
The first polysynth we could afford was a Korg Poly 61. However in my
first band we had an SY-1, a little machine that I always loved.

Fast forward a few years.

I set up a small studio and started recording again. Hard synths, soft
synths, it did not matter (and still doesn't). I even got in touch
with the boys from my first band again and we engaged in a
cooperation. We started missing our SY-1, which sadly enough had been
sold when frequency modulation (and yes you experts out there: I have
heard that the DX series in fact used phase modulation…) hit the stage.
It was time to get that sound again. I got outbid on a few SY-1s on
ebay and elsewhere, and finally I went for a CS-5 as a substitute. But
while I think the CS-5 is a cool little machine, its sound is not
anywhere close to the SY-1.

After a recording session we were watching a DVD that a friend had
brought along, the Bladerunner 25th anniversary edition and I got
interested in the sound.

I bought a CS-80V.

We made a soundtrack Vangelis style.

We got infected.

We got a CS-80.

(to be continued)