NAMM 2025: If you harbour even a passing interest in synth history, you'll know the CS-80: Yamaha's '70s classic is one of the most fabled instruments in music technology, an ambitious and formidably ...

It is, by common consent, one of the greatest synthesizers of all time, but unlike many other classic instruments, Yamaha’s CS-80 has so far been consigned to the hardware history books. However, we ...

Behringer has announced its intentions to clone Yamaha’s classic polyphonic analogue synth, the CS-80. A Facebook post shared over the weekend says that the company acquired an original CS-80 around a ...

Arturia is bringing back Yamaha’s CS-80 analog synthesizer for today’s composers with its CS-80V. The CS-80 was a polyphonic synth popularized in the late 70s and early 80s with the works of ...

Yamaha has produced some of the most significant synths in the relatively short history of electronic music, and the CS-40M may be one of the most unfairly ignored in the company’s history. Coming in ...

Yamaha's CS-80 is one of the biggest synths ever -- whether in size, tone or resale price. Most notably remembered for being Vangelis' go-to instrument when composing the score for Blade Runner, the ...

Canadian artists Ango and Jonah Yano recreate the Blade Runner soundtrack with help from the Yamaha CS-80 during the RBMA Bass Camp Calgary 2019.