Specification

Arturia CS80V

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 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, Vangelis and Genesis who helped to turn this synthesizer into a real myth.

The Arturia CS80V...

The CS-80V offers all of the features from the original synth, plus a new generation of innovative features which take the original design to a new elevated level:

• A modulation matrix
• A multitimbral mode
• An arpeggiator

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.

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

Minimum System Requirements

• 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.

Inta Audio recommends the Arturia CS80V by Arturia

The Arturia CS80V offers great value for money, features, build quality and reliability.

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