Arturia CS-80V Soft Synth (Standard)

by Arturia

Product Features

• All the original parameters of the Yamaha CS-80
• More than 400 presets made by a selection of the most famous sound designers
• Standalone, RTAS, VST, AU supported
• Please note: This is a virtual synthesizer that will run on your computer and NOT an actual hardware synthesizer.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0002GLKP6
• Item model number: Arturia
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,519 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #100 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Computer Recording > Software > Virtual Instruments

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

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.

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 helped 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 elevated level:

• A modulation matrix
• A multitimbral mode
• An arpeggiator and a stereo delay

But is the sound of the CS-80V really close to the original? We would tend to say yes, as the synthesizer is based on TAE®, the proprietary technology developed by Arturia, and already successfully used in the Moog Modular V.

Features:

• 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

Required Configuration:
vPC: Pentium II 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, Windows 9x/2000/ME/XP
vMAC: G3 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, MacOS 9.x, Mac OS X 10.2
Sound Card: Any sound card compatible with DirectX, ASIO, SoundManager or CoreAudio

Compatibility:
PC: ASIO / DirectSound, Cubase 3.7 to SX, Ableton Live, Logic 4.7 or higher, Sonar 2.0 or higher, Pro Tools 5.x, Pro Tools 6.x
MacOS 9.2.2: Cubase 4.1 or higher, Logic 4.7 or higher, Digital Performer 3, Pro Tools 5.2
Mac OSX: CoreAudio, Cubase SX, Ableton Live, Pro Tools 6.x, Pro Tools 6.x, Logic 6 & DP4, Ableton Live, Digital Performer 4

A 260-paged paper manual is provided in 3 languages: French, English and Japanese.
Copy protection: the installation CD is only required each time you want to import new banks of presets or when you install an update patch of the product.

Product Description

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... 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 Japan's 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 helped to turn this synthesizer into a real myth. All the original parameters of the Yamaha CS-80: 2 oscillators, 4 filters (high pass, low pass), 2 LFOs, 4 envelopes, 2 VCAs, 1 sub-oscillator (LFO), 1 ring modulator, chorus and tremolo New effect: DelayNew Multi Mode: assign a different sound to each of the 8 voices of polyphony! New Modulation Matrix with 12 sources to modulate a choice of 38 destination parameters More than 400 presets made by a selection of the most famous sound designers Polyphonic aftertouch 1 Arpeggiator Expression and sustain pedals Ribbon controller No aliasing from 0.1 Hz to 16 kHz64-bit floating point precision Sampling rate: up to 96 kHz PLATFORM SPECIFICATIONS Windows Windows XP/Vista/Seven 512 MB RAM CPU - 2 GHz (Multiple cores recommended) Standalone (Asio/Direct Sound), VST, RTAS Mac Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and Universal Binary 512 MB RAM CPU - 2 GHz (Multiple cores recommended) Standalone (Core Audio), VST, RTAS, AU PROTECTION Internet Connection required to authorize the product