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Man i love the choirs and strings vangelis made with this synth. i bought the Arturia Vst pluggin but i can't get the same sounds...to be honest, i can't even program anything with it. can anyone help me????
ReplyDeleteThe only string sounds Vangelis used the CS80 for were solo-string type sounds. He mainly used the instrument for that brassy lead, low drones, the guitar patch & the bass patch. He always did strings with a string machine. Those big impressive string & choir swells in Blade Runner are nothing more than a Roland VP-330 & a volume pedal with the occasional CS80 note on top or bottom. The VP-330 was also the secret weapon in Chariots of Fire, Missing, Antartica and The Bounty. Before that he used the Roland Paraphonic 505, and before that it was Farfisa & Elka boxes. The choir sound in "Heaven & Hell" was a real choir.
ReplyDeleteThe real key to the CS80 is the keyboard with poly aftertouch & the performance controls on the lower right, not the main patch.
Thanks reed, good info. I updated this other post with this.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that my synths are not that complicated to adjust...
ReplyDeletei gots me a lot of synths and no space but i would make room for a CS80.. passed on one 4 years ago for $750.. regret.
ReplyDeleteI turn 30 soon.. maybe I'll get myself something nice this year
so basically he's using the CS80 to control all of his other units then? I watched a clip that was just put to youtube recently...of him in his studio surrounded by gear. it looked like he was using that unit for all of the sounds i was looking for.
ReplyDeleteAnywho, thank you so much for the iinformation, now i need to hunt down a Roland VP-330 :)
Nope, he never used the CS80 to control other instruments. In the video clip that's referenced in this post, the VP330 is off camera, over the CS80. Starting with the "Direct" album in the 80's he went nuts for a Zyklus Midi switcher/arpeggiator thingy that let him control and sync everything with one keyboard and a set of controller pedals, and he never turned back. The CS80, however, was always played using its own keyboard.
ReplyDeleteAfter leaving the Nemo studio in London for Paris & Greece he was seduced by the dark side of Midi, and never ran around in a frenzy hitting real timpani & gongs again.
Back to the picture, I love seeing synths that were designed with serviceability in mind.
ReplyDeleteThere's so many out there that are difficult as a chinese puzzle box to open.
CS80s are a service nightmare.. most techs wont work on them and those that do always find other stuff to get to first.. as in they have to have nothing else to do before they get to them.
ReplyDeleteI keep the top panel on mine unscrewed so I can tune all 16 oscillators before recording with it. Hey, it takes a little longer than tuning a guitar but it's a heck of a lot quicker than tuning a piano.
ReplyDeleteWell don't forget that on BR his VP-330 went through a Lexicon 224. The Roland RS-505 would have been contemporary with the VP-330 and has very similar strings. Can someone verify he even had an RS-505 that's not a misidentified VP-330?
ReplyDeleteHe also used Korg PE-2000 a fair amount in the late 70s for string pads and "Antarctica" had Emulator choirs. As for Elka and Farfisa, he had the Elka Rhaposdy 610 - which he used a lot and he definitely used the Farfisa Syntorchestra.
well, can you make similar choir & string sounds with the cs80? if you have a patch for the arturia vst please post. even if its basic just so i can see how its done and tinker around making my own.
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