Vintage Synth Explorer

Yamaha • CS-5

The CS-5 may be a lower-end CS series synthesizer from Yamaha but it still has all you need for vintage analog bass and synth effects at a very affordable price! The CS-5 is a single-oscillator monophonic analog synthesizer with classic filter, envelope and modulation controls. It features 37 full-sized keys, a multi-mode 12 dB/Oct resonant filter, an LFO with sample and hold, and an external audio input you can route through the VCF or VCA sections. The CS-5 is a very flexible and modulate-able analog synth that is quite capable of warm analog bass and bubbly synth effects! The absence of patch storage, MIDI and velocity are just reminders that the CS-5 is old - it's Vintage! It's been used by Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Richard Barbieri and the Sneaker Pimps.

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youknowjuno

Posted 14 days ago

I totally feel your pain Benny but that's market forces for you. If someone's prepared to pay x amount for a battered money synth then that's what it worth. I blame ebay. here in Jolly England the going rate for a shoebox sized flat (apartment) is around £150.000. it's not worth it, but you'll always find some idiot to pay the money.

Benny

Posted 14 days ago

I'm pretty pissed by todays vintage craze, seriously, seeing these things go for 400 USD or more makes my mind bleed, is there no end to human stupidity? Just because it happens to be analog it's suddenly worth 150 times more than a modern synth that is capable of annihilating this thing in every single way? It's monophonic, it has a 37-key keyboard, it has ONE oscillator and not even MIDI, why do people pay such insane amounts for these things? Sorry for all the negativity but jesus christ, I really hope this vintage fad blows over soon because it seems people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for dog [beep] just because it happens to be "vintage"..

octavcat

Posted 63 days ago

Try feeding the audio from the CS5 back into itself from an fx send. You get lovely distorted analog feedback!
www.octavcat.com

Brendon

Posted 65 days ago

Wow! Just picked one up for a decent price and in AMAZING condition.

There's a lot you can do with this little thing, especially with the trigger and CV. Really fat, really wide filter.

The only downside.
When playing up, the monophonic is fine, but playing down the scale the lower notes wont pick up until you release the higher key. Which can be a negative if your into mono solos. Other than that, it rips!

Liam

Posted 86 days ago

found a cool article about this synth
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006 /03/aphex-twin-sleevenotes-scrawled-on.h tml
apparently some guy bought one on a vemia auction and found the album insert for aphex twin's "selected ambient works v II" scrawled on the back of it

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