Yamaha CS01-II analog synthesizer review

Published on Jul 17, 2018 Ari Tamminen

"My review of the vintage classic and the last analog synthesizer made by Yamaha in the 1980's (all the Yamaha synthesizers after this have been digital or virtual analog), the last of the classic Yamaha CS lineage, the CS01-II. It was a revised version of the original Yamaha CS01, with a different VCF section with a 24 dB/oct LP filter and a variable setting for the resonance.
The synth also had the option to use a breath controller to control the VCO and/or the VCF, but as I don't have the breath controller, I left that bit out of this review.

Most of the videos in Youtube about the CS01 or CS01-II have been either done to sell one, where someone just shows that it works, or presented by someone who is not familiar with the synthesizer. I have been using this synthesizer since new, so I'm pretty familiar with it at least. it was the first real synthesizer I have owned myself and it's still in active use. I also wrote one of the first reviews of this synth to the Internet in the 1990's, so I thought this is a good device to start my new series of synthesizer reviews."