{"id":335,"date":"2015-07-19T21:59:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T01:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/wordpress\/?p=335"},"modified":"2015-07-19T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T02:01:20","slug":"my-first-synth-yamaha-cs-10-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"My First Synth &#8211; Yamaha CS-10 &#8211; Back Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have a bunch of synths I&#8217;ve been wondering what my first synth, the Yamaha CS-10 sounds like compared to all of them. I thought it was a horrible little synth back then and desperately wanted something better so now that I have many much better keyboards it would be cool to revisit my very first synth I bought in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching them on Bay but sellers always seem to want $50 or more for them. Way too much! I was pretty sure I would play around with it for a while, then it would go into the closet, so I didn&#8217;t want to pay too much for it. Finally someone put one on an auction with a starting bid of $250. I was pretty sure that would also be the ending bid so I went for it. <\/p>\n<p>Sure enough I was the only bidder and here it is!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotteh\/19164845411\/in\/photostream\" title=\"Yamaha CS-10 Arrives!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/333\/19164845411_7077fb5749.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" alt=\"Yamaha CS-10 Arrives!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For once my memory proved to be accurate. It&#8217;s very basic and very limited. What I didn&#8217;t remember is how fast the envelopes were. They are extremely snappy! The sound is very clean somehow so you just cant get those moog-like sounds even with pulse width modulation. I think the oscillator simply doesn&#8217;t have some of the higher harmonics that most synths have. Generally that&#8217;s not good but it does give these synths their own sound.<\/p>\n<p>So a few months after I bought my first CS-10 the little store (the only music store in Barrie) got a new synth in, the CS-15. Well this synth was 10 times what the CS-10 was an I was really pissed that I didn&#8217;t have it. So that was unresolved business for about 35 years. But the seller also had one of these and offered it to me at a slight discount soooooo&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotteh\/19567234825\/in\/photostream\" title=\"Yamaha CS-15\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/343\/19567234825_b47102b450.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" alt=\"Yamaha CS-15\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This synth has 2 oscillators and 2 multi-mode filters in parallel. Turns out you can do a lot with that! It still has that very clean sound that the CS-10 has but even so it is a million times better, fatter, and just plain cooler.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to do a song to see what I could do with just one of these little synths. The CS-15 arrived when i was part way done so I switched to that one. So here&#8217;s the finished song:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/scott-from-canada\/1015a<\/p>\n<p>The drums were done with the Alesis DMPRO.<\/p>\n<p>All other sounds in the first part of the song come from the CS-10. From the key change onward all sounds were created with the CS-15. There were almost 90 tracks of audio in the project. <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;. now, back to the other songs. I have 2-3 songs I&#8217;m still working on but once they are done I can do the final mixes and mastering and release the next CD. Hopefully I am inspired to finish them soon!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotteh\/18917475423\/in\/photostream\" title=\"Yamaha CS-15 Arrives!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3754\/18917475423_bb37b5b1b4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" alt=\"Yamaha CS-15 Arrives!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Pictured L-R: Oberheim OB-8, Yamaha MG32-14Fx Mixer, Rack containing Moog Slim Phatty, Roland Super JV-1080, Yamaha CS-15, Roland D-50, Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, Korg MS-20 mini, Roland VK8-m, Tom Oberheim SEM Pro, Modular Synth, Kurzweil K2000, Yamaha CS-40m, Yamaha SK-20, Roland SH-2, Yamaha CS-20m, Yamaha CS-10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have a bunch of synths I&#8217;ve been wondering what my first synth, the Yamaha CS-10 sounds like compared to all of them. 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