Yamaha cs1x sounds plus#
And last but not least, CS1x also had the arpeggiator with some Up, Down, UpDown and Random patterns, plus some more esoteric ones, which would also adjust the velocity and/or filter settings of the sound. Finally, two different settings of those knobs could have been memorized under the Scene settings and recalled instantly, as well as being morphed with the use of modulation wheel. Moreover, user was able to control the sound in the realtime, using four hardwired (Attack & Release of the amplitude envelope, as well as Cutoff and Resonance of the filter) and two freely assignable knobs – one ( Assign 2) could have controller different parameter for each layer, while the other ( Assign 1) was common for all layers. Routing wasn’t very flexible, but still some nice results could have been obtained. User was able to split & layer up to four so-called material voices (raw samples), as well as use low-pass filters, three envelopes (dedicated to control the filter, pitch and amplitude), LFO and FX processors. After pressing the Performance button, channels 1-4 were used for building the special, “better” sound. The knobs are back! Notice the Scene buttons above the modulation wheel.īut that was only one face of CS1x – the other one was trying to mimic the red monster from Stockholm. So when it landed in 1996, it was probably the most sought after budget synth. Also, the XG standard emerged just in time to provide the means for the true realtime control over the sound without the need to use bulky SysEx messages. But it proved to be one of its major strengths, to be able to provide multitimbrality of 16 channels.
Having the guts of MU50, CS1x was as far as possible from being a virtual analog. But apart from the chassis (and its color) and similar name, they bear no resemblance to each other. Later, the experience gathered while brewing CS1x was used for creating the AN1x – the one and only Yamaha’s attempt to create a virtual analog.
Yamaha cs1x sounds series#
They played on people’s sentiment to the well known CS series (with CS80 being the most famous) – old, heavyweight analog synthesizers – but “x” marked the new generation: light, affordable and always in tune. So Yamaha folks looked at the crowd storming the Clavia stands, took their MU50 sound module and reshaped it into the CS1x synthesizer. There was a huge problem with QS300 and the W series – they were quite expensive.