Yamaha - CS-80

The Yamaha CS-80 is very well known for the intensive use that Vangelis made on the compostion of the Blade Runner soundtrack.It's a 8 voice polyphonic analog synthesizer, with a front panel plenty of sliders,knobs, ribbon controller,aftertouch.... and is from 1977!!!

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• My Yamaha CS80 synthesizer. The string sounds on this are amazing. Look at Blade Runner that was scored with a CS80 keyboard by Vangelis. This is recorded using my home video camera and its built in microphone. In the future I intend to post a much better video. Hopefully this gives you an idea of what the CS80 sounds like.

Source :

• Youtube.com by galaxiesmerge

More info about Yamaha CS-80 :

• Vintagesynth.com
• Synthmuseum.com
• Cs80.com ( Yamaha CS-80 maintenance and more )
• Yamaha CS-80 Service Manual ( high resolution scan )
• Therogoffs.com ( Yamaha CS-80 tuning,schematics... )
• Soundprogramming.net ( Yamaha CS-80 block diagram )
• Soundprogramming.net ( Yamaha CS-80 part 1 )
• Soundprogramming.net ( Yamaha CS-80 part 2 )
• Soundprogramming.net ( Yamaha CS-80 part 3 )

Yamaha CS-80 pictures :

• Flickr.com
  

Buy Yamaha CS-80 :

• Ebay.com
• Vemia.com