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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...

From the original myth...
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.

...to the evolution of the species
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.

Benefit from the experience of the best sound designers
The CS-80V comes loaded with more than 400 presets made by a selection of talented sound designers.

ARTURIA CS-80V 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
▪ PC: Pentium II 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, Windows 9x/2000/ME/XP
▪ MAC: 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

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.