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The CS-10 makes a great electronic, dance and trance musical instrument because it is analog, monophonic, has a really cool filter and is capable of warm bubbly analog bass and lead sounds. Its very simple design and layout with plenty of knobs allows for instant gratification! It has one oscillator and a switchable low-pass, band-pass or hi-pass resonant filter. The LFO can modulate the filter cutoff, volume, pitch and VCO. External audio can also be routed through the filter and there is portamento that stretches for one octave.

Although MIDI-less, the CS-10 does have CV / Gate which can be converted to MIDI using a proper interface, so the CS-10 works quite well both in the studio or for live performance. If you're into techno, dance or electronica then consider the CS-10 an inexpensive but worthy alternative to other more popular mono-synths. It has been used by Depeche Mode, Astral Projection, the Propellerheads and Moa.

35 VISITOR COMMENTS

MedIcI

May 11, 2012 @ 5:43 pm

I hear one of these used in The Alan Parsons Project- iRobot and found one at a garage sale so i pluged it in to my adapter for the laptop and used it for my music.

Kevin R. Marshall

March 13, 2012 @ 4:47 pm

FYI: If anyone is looking for one, i have a CS-10 in very good condition for sale here:
http://www.houseofsynth.com/yamaha-CS-10-mono-analog-sy nth-for-sale

Regards

orlando

March 2, 2012 @ 5:37 pm

Saw one of these this morning on my local Craigslist, $175, but keyboard triggering was identified as iffy. The early bird got the worm (and it was not me). Darn. Maybe next time. But there is hope.

youknowjuno

December 16, 2011 @ 3:46 am

Spinalzap, you had a faulty one mate!

youknowjuno

November 16, 2011 @ 1:58 pm

Just bought a mint condition one of these to go alongside the Moog Prodigy and The Octave Kitten in my monosynth collection. Just one thing to say; I need a new set of woofers;-)

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