Yamaha CS-10

Multitrack recording of the Yamaha CS-10. All sounds are made with the CS-10. All processing in Ableton Live.
Stems of unprocessed individual audio tracks available at payhip.com/b/1...
Audio track is available at rimela.bandcam...

[@cougarman8]

Amazing sounding track! Even cooler knowing it was all with this synth. Two thumbs way up, fantastic job.

[@rimela]

Thank you Doron

[@dougdesmond7718]

Best sounding CS-10 video on KZbin by far. What signal chain / converters are you using?

[@rimela]

Thanks! I use the Allen&Heath ICE-16 audio interface (an oldie but a goodie), using 16bit/44.1kHz resolution into Ableton Live.

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

Fantastic. Now I'm lusting after yet another synth...

[@rimela]

Thanks! And sorry 😁

[@Unison_Detune]

Brother you are not alone!

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

@@rimela You are forgiven! Can never have too many synths. :)

[@phranquepeasant7526]

Wow!!! What a great set of compositions!

[@rimela]

Thank you very much!

[@RoomAtTheTopStudio]

Excellent demonstration of how a track can sound made with just one synth, and an amazing synth at that. Simple but amazing. One oscillator two envelopes plus the filter, I love it. It's the first secondhand vintage synth I bought

[@MattGreerMusic]

Really nice work here. Engaging and inspiring music and of course and excellent demonstration of what the CS-10 can do.

[@grandtetone]

2:59 - 4:59 Holy Harmonia. Wunderbar!

[@rimela]

Harmonia might just be the best band that ever existed. Big inspiration to me.

[@celticviolaandfiddle]

I love the way you make really great tracks exploiting each individual synthesiser with such skill. It’s a rare combination. Subscribed!

[@rimela]

Thank you so much!

[@TheNAPSince2005]

It is a wonderful performance. I also had a CS-5, so it's easy to imagine the tremendous amount of work that went into these tracks. Thank you for making the video available.

[@SamplersAndThings]

I had one of these. Excellent for techno because of the audio rate LFO and since it has a powerful single oscillator, the bass cuts through a mix easily. Surprisingly great synth

[@ryanedwardmusic]

Fantastic. Thinking about buying one, then I'll come back here to recreate these sounds

[@DiegoDeMarcoSandA]

Ottime sequenze timbriche e belle linee sonore evocative, bel lavoro R ! 🎼DdM Milano

[@Unison_Detune]

This sounds absolutely wonderful. I rate Japanese synths much higher than American. This almost sounds as lively as a modular system. Beautiful.

[@Podus81]

I used to be like that. I love my Rev 2 as much as my vintage Korg collection. It comes down to the right tool for the job.

[@jackreedy3861]

Great tune. Can't wait to get my hands on a cs10

[@creyesu]

Amazing tracks and sounds! Congrats!! Question: in first track, kick is also made with CS10? It sounds very punchy, with compression and overdrive fx maybe?

[@rimela]

Thanks Cristian! Every sound you hear is indeed from the CS10. Tracks are mixed in Ableton Live (with Ableton’s standard set of fx only). Compression was used and on this specific kick some overdrive. So, you were spot on.

[@lonezombieheart7808]

Thank you. Amazing work. Greetings from Germany.

[@sonicpulp9417]

Dude the hi hat sound is amazing ?!

[@rimela]

The CS’s multimode filter is one of the best filters I’ve come across for making percussive sounds. Thanks!

[@diderichlangmannen]

Excellent! The old Yamahas and Rolands are sounding so incredibly good! Maybe there is a company out there to build a clone of them ... 😉 Thanks a lot for this great demonstration.

[@rimela]

Thank you Diderich

[@TLOUTheorist]

Beautiful.

[@rimela]

Thanks

[@fender1000100]

Really nice. You can see how Vince Clarke got inspired.

[@SidBarnhoorn]

Excellent!!!

[@DestroyER82]

Awesome demonstration of sonic capabilites of this, still to this day, extremely overlooked and cheap vintage classic monosynth. Couple months ago I actually did similar CS-10 only tune, was amazing fun. Out of curiosity, what device have you used for sequencing? (I did most of my thing mostly just playing or sampling)

[@rimela]

Thanks! I used the Korg SQ-1 and the Dotcom Q960 sequencer. Both have their (dis)advantages for sequencing CS synths: Korg CV range needs to be attenuated, Q960 trigger needs offsetting to S-trig (using signal processor module). Most of the time I think it’s better to just play the CS. In my opinion the CS synths stand out when it comes to playability and reliability.

[@DestroyER82]

@@rimela OK, thank you! I have SQ-1 and tested it and exactly.. range needs to be divided (CS uses much lower voltages) so I havent really ever used it and rather just play. CS synths are extremely well and reliable build, there really isnt any match to them in that regard. And I absolutely adore the sound, but thats of course subjective thing.

[@rimela]

@@DestroyER82 There are Attenuator Cables available which are perfect for hooking up the CS to the SQ-1. The item number is: SYN0004623-000

[@DestroyER82]

@@rimela Awesome, thanks a lot for tip!

[@tuddilu]

First synth I bought, for 35 euros 1995, still got it. Later I got a cs15, really sweet to hook them both up, 3 osc massiv cs sound :D . I have started to have a gas to get the cs 5 and cs30, thus get a 4 meter wide synth :D

[@rimela]

Great suggestions to hook them both up. Though I have the CS-15 as well, I never tried that.

[@tuddilu]

@@rimela Do it. it is the easiest thing

[@rimela]

@@tuddilu will do 🫡 might even make a video while I’m at it

[@edenhunter9904]

good dem🙂o thanks

[@rimela]

@@edenhunter9904 Thank you!

[@ymotechnopopfan]

3:00

[@danielortizdecaracas]

the percussion is CS10 too?

[@rimela]

Yes, all CS10

[@StudioSoaker]

Ah yes, this was before Yamaha invented the synth that made it to many consumer products!

[@jessevanderzee2344]

Wauw🤩

[@logimite7174]

Love it. I want to get a cs10 now, there's on on ebay for $465!

[@electronicmusician]

how did you make the kick drum? :D

[@rimela]

A low pitched wave (square/saw), with a very fast attack/decay on the filter. Play with the filter setting adding some resonance. To make it punchy I used some compression. Also used some EQ. Did you check out the unprocessed STEMS (you can download them for free)?

[@electronicmusician]

@@rimela i thought you might have used the sawtooth lfo on the pitch set to slow... interesting. thanks! will check out the stems sometime.

[@eancurtis9333]

How you sequence ?? Midi ?

[@rimela]

Using Korg SQ1 and Dotcom Q960 sequencers

[@omarbonifacino3381]

Is fantatasic CS5

[@jeremymurray-wakefield8011]

I had the CS-5 which had most of the features of this. I thought it was a terrible synth and haven’t once regretted selling it. Very narrow palette and the only good thing about it was the keyboard mechanism - but even that was of limited use as it was incompatible with the CV/GATE standards adopted by other manufacturers. Best avoided.

[@jonerik1391]

Any thougts on Cs-10 vs Cs-15?

[@rimela]

Hi Jon, if you have to choose one of those two, I would go for the CS-15. I really like the envelope generators of the 10, but the 15 is not bad or anything (just a little slower). Other than that on the 15 you get so much more with the 2nd VCO and two signal paths. The feedback trick on 15 can’t be matched by any other synth (well perhaps the CS-30 can).

[@jonerik1391]

@@rimela Thanks! The CS-10 seems a bit "fatter" sounding but I might be fooled by only watching YT. I know it is the case with Ms-10 vs Ms-20. The 10 sounds bigger but the 20 wins on features.

[@rimela]

@@jonerik1391 Did a check on this today, had the 10 and 15 side by side, trying to make exactly the same sounds on both. At first I found it fair to compare using only one VCO on the 15. Then at some point I thought you are right about the 10 sounding bigger, but then I figured out that I had mixed both waveforms on the 10, something that can't be done on the 15. Then I added the second VCO on the 15, tuning it as tight as possible to VCO1, but then in my opinion the 15 is the winner in 'big' sound (without detuning VCO2 and even without using the second signal path). Still, the 10 sounds really good and the faster envelope makes it do things the 15 can't. I could do some more testing on this (if you want I'll make some WAVs for you), but I think the comparison with the Korg MS10/20 with the 10 sounding bigger than 20 (which I agree upon) doesn't apply to the Yamaha's.

[@rimela]

CS-15 Stems of the entire demo are available payhip.com/b/FkOJH as a free download package 🤗

[@rimela]

CS-10 Stems are also available now for download.

[@MisAnnThorpe]

That's a very Neu sounding beat and very German sounding overall on the second track. In a good way of course.

[@rimela]

Neu, Cluster and Harmonia are the best.

[@MisAnnThorpe]

@@rimela Strictly speaking, (The) Associates are the best but seeing as I can't demonstrably prove it, I'll let that one go!

[@rimela]

@@MisAnnThorpe Could the Associates name be inspired by Organisation, the predecessor of Kraftwerk?

[@MisAnnThorpe]

@@rimela I've never given it any thought before but I'm sure they made the right choice in going with that rather than Frenzy MacKenzie and the mysterons! Are you familiar with their work and if so are you an admirer at all?

[@rimela]

@@MisAnnThorpe To be honest I never really got into this band. Listening to it for about 30 minutes now and it definitely has its moments but I'm not blown away by it (yet).

[@tronique]

Really good! The envelope of the CS10 seems to be more snappy than on my CS15. Btw. this is how my CS15 sounds through some noisy 80s Delays: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqqrpJyCg7OVgKssi=uzL5xbHy6ygm5lbx

[@KUGKmusique]

great

[@rimela]

Thanks