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  • Page 1 USER MANUAL _CS-80 V...
  • Page 2 Special Thanks DIRECTION Frédéric Brun Kevin Molcard DEVELOPMENT Baptiste Aubry Fanny Roche Marius Lasfargue Stéphane Albanese Mathieu Nocenti Rasmus Kürstein Marc Antigny Pascal Douillard Raynald Dantigny Kevin Arcas Pierre-Lin Laneyrie Christophe Luong Marie Pauli Alessandro De Cecco Yann Burrer Pierre Mazurier Alexandre Adam Hugo Caracalla Loris De Marco...
  • Page 3 Thank you for purchasing CS-80 V4! This manual covers the features and operation of Arturia’s CS-80 V4, one of our many powerful virtual instruments. Be sure to register your software as soon as possible! When you purchased CS-80 V4, you were sent a serial number and an unlock code by e-mail.
  • Page 4 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Arturia's CS-80 V4! We’d like to thank you for purchasing CS-80 V4, a virtual instrument recreation of the Yamaha CS-80 analog synthesizer: a groundbreaking keyboard that introduced the world to incredible new sonic horizons, with a massive sound that no synth – well, no hardware synth –...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Playing CS-80 V4 for the First Time ........................15 The User Interface ..............................16 3.1. Overview ....................................16 3.2. The Upper Toolbar ................................18 3.2.1. The CS-80 V menu........................................18 3.2.2. Preset Browser .......................................... 22 3.2.3. Advanced Panel Access....................................... 23 3.2.4. Side Panel Settings ......................................... 23 3.3.
  • Page 6 5.2.2. The upper Controller Panel....................................60 5.2.3. The lower Controller Panel ....................................65 5.2.4. The Left-Hand Section......................................68 5.2.5. The Service Panel ........................................71 The Advanced Panel ............................... 72 6.1. The Modulations tab ................................72 6.1.1. Functions............................................73 6.1.2. The Modulation Mixer ......................................76 6.2.

  • Page 7: Introduction

    1. INTRODUCTION Arturia would like to thank you for purchasing our modeling synthesizer, CS-80 V4. We're confident that it will become a valuable addition to your music production studio. If you've purchased our products before, you know we take great pride in recreating the sound and feel of the original instruments –...
  • Page 8 The first edition of the service manual has a lot of hand-drawn pages, including the main panel layout. The CS-80 Service Manual In the legendary reference book, The A-Z of Analogue Synthesizers (Susurreal, 1996), Peter Forrest says of the CS-80: Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Introduction...

  • Page 9: Why A Virtual Cs-80

    – in hardware or software – how would it fare in a modern studio? Arturia has remained faithful to the CS-80's sound and functionality, but has then taken its capabilities far beyond anything its creators could have imagined, giving it a new lease on life in the world of plug-ins and DAWs.

  • Page 10: Arturia's Secret Ingredient: Tae

    TAE®'s software algorithms result in spot-on emulation of analog hardware. This is why CS-80 V4 offers an unparalleled quality of sound, as do all of Arturia's virtual synthesizers. TAE® combines three major advances in the domain of synthesis: 1.3.1.

  • Page 11: A Better Reproduction Of Analog Oscillator Waveforms

    TAE® reproduces the result of this capacitor discharge in software. Below is the analysis of a waveform from one of the five original instruments Arturia's software emulates, followed by one made by TAE®. They are both equally deformed by the low-pass and high-pass filtering.

  • Page 12: Direct Filter Circuit Modeling

    Arturia. And when Arturia decides to honor the colorful history and stunning sound of one of the most famous synthesizers ever, you wind up with CS-80 V4.

  • Page 13: Activation And First Start

    You can use it as a standalone version or as a plug-in for your favorite DAW, in Audio Units, AAX, VST2, or VST3 format. Before you install or register the software, you'll need to create a My Arturia account here, using an email address and password of your choice: https://www.arturia.com/...
  • Page 14 You can also do this online by logging into your account and then following the instructions here: http://www.arturia.com/register Once you've registered, activated, and installed CS-80 V4, it's time to get it to talk to your computer. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Activation and First Start...

  • Page 15: Initial Setup For Standalone Use

    Windows and macOS, although the names of the devices available to you will depend on the hardware you are using. Remember, this option is only available (and needed) in the standalone version of CS-80 V4. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Activation and First Start...
  • Page 16 96kHz, CS-80 V4 will happily support that. The Show Control Panel button will jump to the system control panel for • whatever audio device is selected. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Activation and First Start...

  • Page 17: Audio And Midi Settings: Macos

    CoreAudio driver built into macOS to handle routing. In the second dropdown menu under Device, choose the audio device you wish to use. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Activation and First Start...

  • Page 18: Using Cs-80 V4 As A Plug-In

    DAW, such as delay, chorus, filters, etc. • You can route CS-80 V4’s audio outputs creatively inside your DAW, using the DAW’s own audio routing system. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Activation and First Start...

  • Page 19: Playing Cs-80 V4 For The First Time

    By the time you reach the end, we hope you’ll understand all of CS-80 V4’s capabilities – and will be using this fantastic instrument to create equally fantastic music! Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - Activation and First Start...

  • Page 20: The User Interface

    3. THE USER INTERFACE In this chapter, we'll walk you through the features of CS-80 V, how to find them and how to use them. As with every Arturia product, we have gone to great lengths to make the use of this software instrument as simple and as much fun as possible, while also striving to make sure you never run out of new things to do with it as your knowledge expands.
  • Page 21  ♪ Your computer's keyboard can also play CS-80 V. The top row of letters acts as the black keys on a piano keyboard, the next row of letters acts as the white keys, and the first two keys on the bottom row act as octave shift keys, down/up.

  • Page 22: The Upper Toolbar

    The Upper Toolbar 3.2.1. The CS-80 V menu In the top left corner of the window, the icon of three horizontal lines labeled CS-80 V leads to a drop-down menu for important global operations. The CS-80 V menu and its various functions (see below) 3.2.1.1.
  • Page 23 Both types are stored in the .cs4x format. After selecting this option, the default path to these files will appear in the window, but you can navigate to another folder if needed. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The User Interface...
  • Page 24 "export" window, but you can create a folder at another location if you like. Export Bank: This option can be used to export an entire bank of sounds from the • instrument, which is useful for backing up or sharing presets. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The User Interface...
  • Page 25 3.2.1.6. Resize Window The CS-80 V window can be resized from 50% to 200% of its default size without any visual artifacts. On a smaller screen, such as a laptop's, you might want to reduce the interface size so it doesn’t dominate the display, although some smaller controls might be harder to see and click/drag.

  • Page 26: Preset Browser

    3.2.2. Preset Browser CS-80 V comes packed with lots of useful factory presets, and of course you'll create many more of your own. To help you search through this large preset library, the Preset Browser [p.36] is designed to help you catalog, filter, and search for the perfect preset in just a few clicks.

  • Page 27: Advanced Panel Access

    3.2.3. Advanced Panel Access CS-80 V goes well beyond the capabilities of the original hardware, adding new functions like a modulation mixer, keyboard response adjustments, and a powerful effects chain. Since the front panel of the original CS-80 doesn't have room for all these extra controls, they've been hidden away in a pop-up window that you can hide when it's not needed.

  • Page 28: The Lower Toolbar

    3.3. The Lower Toolbar The Lower Toolbar runs along the bottom of the CS-80 V user interface and provides quick access to several important parameters and useful bits of information. The Lower Toolbar, showing a tool tip for a parameter under the cursor 1.

  • Page 29: The Side Panel

    The gear icon at the top right of the Upper Toolbar opens the Side Panel, which in turn contains four tabs covering important subsystems that you won't have to access quickly when you're playing or editing sounds on CS-80 V. Let’s look at them from left to right. 3.4.1. Settings Tab This tab covers settings to control how a Preset responds to incoming MIDI, along with other options specific to CS-80 V4.
  • Page 30 You don't have to use all of these parameters at once, of course, but the ability to alter one note inside a chord in various ways can bring out amazing expressive possibilities. The CS-80 was one of the first hardware synthesizers to do anything like MPE, so CS-80 V is a natural fit for it.
  • Page 31 If you have a non-MPE controller, don't worry: you can still get almost all of the nuance of the original CS-80 when you play it – and if your controller sends polyphonic aftertouch, then it's all in your hands. Literally. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The User Interface...

  • Page 32: Midi Tab

    3.4.2. MIDI Tab This is where CS-80 V may be placed in MIDI Learn mode. In this mode, all MIDI-assignable parameters on the main panel are highlighted and you can map physical controls on your MIDI controller to them. A typical example might be to map a physical knob on the MIDI controller to the Frequency knob of the Filter section.
  • Page 33 At the top right of the MIDI tab is a drop-down menu where you can select templates for many Arturia MIDI controllers. These map physical controls to many “most wanted” parameters in CS-80 V for a plug-and-play experience. A Generic template is also provided for third-party MIDI controllers.
  • Page 34 3.4.2.2. MIDI Config Menu The MIDI Config menu Another drop-down lets you manage different sets of MIDI maps for controlling CS-80 V from MIDI hardware. You can Save/Save As the current MIDI assignment setup, Delete it, Import a configuration file, or Export the currently active one.
  • Page 35 3.4.2.3. Assigning and Unassigning Controls Click the Learn button in the MIDI tab to put CS-80 V into Learn mode. Controls available for assignment are purple. Controls that are already assigned are red, but can be reassigned if desired. The screenshot below shows the assigned and unassigned controls for CS-80 V's Default configuration.
  • Page 36 These are: • Pitch Bend • Aftertouch (Channel Pressure) • All Notes Off (CC #123) All other MIDI CC numbers may be freely assigned to control any parameter in CS-80 V. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The User Interface...

  • Page 37: Macro Tab

    Macro 1 through Macro 4 , but you can rename them by double-clicking the name field. The knob above the name corresponds to the knob of the same name in the Lower Toolbar. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The User Interface...
  • Page 38 Right- or control-click on a point to remove it. The first and last breakpoints cannot be removed.  ♪ A simple diagonal line would produce a linear curve, but the potential fun here is to make things non-linear. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The User Interface...

  • Page 39: Tutorials

    In this tab, which can also be opened by selecting Tutorials from the CS-80 V menu, you can click on titles for the individual chapters, which in turn will take you through different areas of CS-80 V in steps. The parts of the panel to focus on are highlighted as you go. ...

  • Page 40: The Preset Browser

    4. THE PRESET BROWSER The Preset Browser is how you search, load, and manage sounds in CS-80 V. It has different views but they all access the same banks of Presets. To access the search view, click the browser button (the icon looks a bit like books on a library shelf).

  • Page 41: Search And Results

    The Results list beneath shows all Presets that fit your search. Click the X icon at right to clear your search terms. Filter by typing text in the Search field Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 42: Using Tags As A Filter

    Preset you're looking for was tagged with Keys or Pad, select both to broaden the search. Results columns can be inverted by clicking the arrow buttons to the right of their titles (Name, Type, Designer). Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 43: Styles

    4.2.3. Banks Next to the Types and Styles buttons is the Banks button, which lets you do your search (using all the methods above) within the factory bank or user banks. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 44: Search Results Window

    Click the TYPE header in the second column to do the same thing by Type. Click the Arturia logo to the left of TYPE to bring factory-featured Presets to the top of the list. These will appear just under any Presets you have liked [p.41].

  • Page 45: Liking Presets

    Results list. Use as many of the sorting and filtering features as you need and you will find the exact sound you want every time. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 46: Sidebar

    Clicking My Sound Banks brings up a window with all of the currently available Sound Banks, starting with the Factory bank. User banks appear next to it, and can be deleted, renamed, or exported by right-clicking them. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 47: My Favorites

    Done. To add Presets to a particular set of Favorites, simply drag and drop them over the appropriate color. Then click on the color itself to display your grouping. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 48: My Playlists

    The bottom part of the sidebar displays any Playlists you have created or imported. Playlists are a very powerful management tool for set lists for gigs. Learn more about them in the Playlists section [p.48] below. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 49: Preset Info Section

    Options include Save Preset, Save Preset As, Delete Preset, and Add to Playlist, complete with an option to create a new Playlist. The lines with color icons allow you to add the Preset to a particular group of Favorites, which we'll describe below. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 50: Editing Info For Multiple Presets

    ♪ If you want to alter the information for a Factory Preset you must first use the Save As command to re-save it as a User Preset. After this the Info section will gain Edit and Delete buttons at the bottom of the window. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 51: Preset Selection: Other Methods

    These are simply larger duplicates of the Macro knobs in the Lower Toolbar. Move one and its partner moves with it. Assigning parameters to Macros is covered in the Macro Tab [p.33] section of Chapter 3. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 52: Playlists

    The My Playlists subheading appears under My Favorites in the Sidebar. However, when you first start using CS-80 V, you'll have no Playlists yet, and the My Playlists subheading won't be there yet. To make it appear, you'll have to create your first Playlist.

  • Page 53: Add A Preset

    Preset, click-drag it onto the Playlist name. Click and drag from the Search Results list onto one of the playlists To view the contents of a playlist, click on the playlist name. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 54: Re-Order The Presets

    To delete a Preset from a playlist, right-click on its name to bring up a pop-up menu. This menu also includes Rename, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate options. More management options are described below. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 55: New Song And Playlist Management

    Export Playlist: Exports your Playlist to a location on your computer, with the • filename extension “aplst.” Delete Playlist: Deletes the current Playlist but does not delete any of the Presets • in it. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Preset Browser...

  • Page 56: The Main Panel

    Now that we've figured out what all the controls around the edges do, you're probably eager to get to the main event – the controls we use for sound creation on CS-80 V, both original and modern. These are found on the Main Panel, as shown above.

  • Page 57: Channels I And Ii

    (VCF cutoff) and LEVEL (VCA amount) are modulated by the Initial Touch and After Touch (Yamaha's original terms for velocity and key pressure, although 'aftertouch' has entered common usage today). Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 58: The Controller Panels

    GX-1 and CS-80 came along! Its RANGE control does more than set bend range, as we'll see. Finally, there are global TUNE and VOLUME knobs whose values can be stored • with each preset. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 59: The Left-Hand Section

    Oh, and if you look closely at the top left of the Main Panel, you'll see some mysterious- looking controls hidden behind the grille of the Service Panel: We'll get to those later... Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 60: Controls And Parameters

    – or unsynchronized. When synced, SPEED ranges from 1/32 of a bar to 8 bars, a range you'll find on nearly every other CS-80 V control that offers sync. When it's turned off, SPEED can be set from 0.100 to 127 Hz.
  • Page 61 You can choose one noise oscillator for both channels, or two per channel. By doing so, you can create stereo fields using panning on Noises. Keyboard tracking is always present on the filters. Using only noise source and sweeping the keyboard then acts like a cutoff control. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 62 0 . This makes the envelope cover a range both above and below 0, which leads to a variety of interesting modulation possibilities beyond what a conventional ADSR can offer. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 63 R (Release Time), the time it takes to drop from the sustain level to 0. (2 ms to • 11.50 sec in Classic mode, 2 ms to 40.00 sec in Long mode) LEVEL controls the overall level of the VCA output. (0.00 to 10.0) • Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 64: The Upper Controller Panel

    DETUNE changes the pitch of Channel II, with Channel I's pitch remaining • steady. PAN spreads Channels I and II to the left and right of the stereo soundstage. • Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 65 In CS-80 V, as on the original, one input to the ring modulator is the mixed output from the two Channels, and the other is a dedicated LFO. The LFO speed can be set by hand, or modulated with a dedicated AD envelope so it changes the character of the ring modulation for each note.
  • Page 66 Many synthesizers today use the actual octave designations 32', 16', 8', 4', and 2', but nobody calls the control 'Feet'! Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 67 CS-80!), and two PANEL buttons. If any control in a Channel is moved once a preset Tone has been selected, the Panel button lights to show that it's been changed. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 68  With the input being polyphonic, and since it responds to polyphonic aftertouch and MPE, you can have different values for those parameters on each voice. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 69: The Lower Controller Panel

    V, offer a take on this that has been a huge influence on later synthesizers. Rather than a single tracking amount for Brilliance (VCF cutoff), CS-80 V has four levers to offset both Brilliance and Level for Low vs. High notes. As they're adjusted in various ways, you can make a patch soft at the extremes of the keyboard and louder in the middle, roll off the bass for high notes while boosting the treble for low ones, and much more.
  • Page 70 EXCL (up and down, with the top and bottom notes played only once), ◦ RAND (notes are played in random order). ◦ OCTAVE changes octaves at each arpeggiator cycle. • GATE controls the steps length. • Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 71 Last but not least are knobs for MASTER TUNE (400 to 480 Hz, double click to set to the default 440 Hz) and MASTER VOLUME (-60.0 to 0.00 dB). Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 72: The Left-Hand Section

    5.2.4.1. Pedals, Unison, Footswitches, and Portamento The CS-80 had a variety of expression modes that could be controlled by an attached foot pedal and footswitch. CS-80 V reproduces those controls for use with your keyboard controller's MIDI expression pedal and footswitch.
  • Page 73 • play. • Glissando is like Portamento, but the pitch change happens in semitone steps, as if you're playing a run up or down the keyboard and hitting every note. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...
  • Page 74 DEPTH controls the amount of effect. (0.00 to 1.00) • The TREMOLO and CHORUS tabs turn the two effects on and off – and you can turn on both at once. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Main Panel...

  • Page 75: The Service Panel

    And now, we get to click on the Service Panel grille at the top of the Main Panel and see what's hiding underneath! This is a new feature in CS-80 V that's designed to take the model's authenticity to a new level: Voice Dispersion.

  • Page 76: The Advanced Panel

    Functions and the Modulation Mixer.  Note that the Modulations tab doesn't cover all of the modulation routings that CS-80 V is capable of; in fact, many of the simplest and most common ones are found on the Keyboard tab, which we'll get to later.

  • Page 77: Functions

    SYNC controls if, and how, the Function is synchronized to the master tempo of your DAW or to other parts of CS-80 V. Clicking it pulls up a small pop-up menu that shows the different units available for the Function's sync: Hertz (cycles per second, not tied to any sync clock), Sync (standard divisions of notes and bars), Sync Triplets and Sync Dotted (for triplet and dotted-note sync timing).
  • Page 78 Clicking on the name of the Destination pops up a window with a choice of 87 parameters (or pairs of parameters for both Channels at once), as shown:  This pop-up is identical for every Destination selection in the Modulations and Keyboard tabs. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 79 Example 3 above shows a sine wave that's been redrawn in various sections using the three different draw modes. The Function Visualizer also features a grid mode that magnetizes points to a 16-step grid. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...

  • Page 80: The Modulation Mixer

    Sources in various ways and send the resulting waveform to three Destinations. Click on SOURCE 1 or SOURCE 2 to select the two modulation Sources from the following pop-up: Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 81 LFO 2 (a faster sawtooth wave), with the Amount set to 0, 0.5, and 1.0. Note that the waveshape of the difference has the opposite polarity; compare it with Sum. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 82 6.1.2.5. Lag Lag: A lag processor takes abrupt voltage changes and smears them out over time. Source 1 has the lag applied, and Source 2 isn't used. In the example below, Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 83 Direct Routing: This option subdivides the Mixer into two separate sources, which can be routed to Destinations 1 and 3 (Destination 2 is deactivated). This is useful when you need a couple more basic modulation paths. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...

  • Page 84: The Keyboard Tab

    This window tailors the chosen Destinations' response to how hard you press into the keybed after playing a note. CS-80 V supports polyphonic aftertouch , which is a different amount for every note. Keyboards' aftertouch response can vary widely from product to product, so getting a certain keyboard to play the way you want it to can be quite challenge –...

  • Page 85: Mod Wheel

    It's good for gradual or set-and-forget modulations that aren't appropriate for the keyboard. The original CS-80 had no mod wheel, but CS-80 V has MIDI mod wheel data (Control Change 1) as an assignable source. In this example, the mod wheel changes the Detune of both Channels from zero to maximum, a "dead zone"...

  • Page 86: The Effects Tab

    6.3. The Effects tab As a final polish to the CS-80 V sound, the Effects tab adds up to three different effects (FX) to a preset. These can be chosen from a set of 16 different effect types, and routed in various ways suitable to the patch.
  • Page 87 100% wet. Others, like reverb, are usually placed in parallel so that each instrument can be affected by them without influence from the others. There are no set rules – feel free to experiment! Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...

  • Page 88: Presets And Fx Copy

    Every one of the FX has its own menu of Presets that drops down when clicked: As is common elsewhere in CS-80 V, the option to Save an edited preset under the same name, or Save As a new name.

  • Page 89: Fx Sync

    6.3.3. FX Sync As with other time-related operations in CS-80 V, some of the effects offer a variety of sync options. When these are available, you can click the down arrow next to the parameter, which shows the current choice, and change it from this little pop-up: The options are: Hertz: no sync –...

  • Page 90: Meet The Fx Types

    Of course, even though "none" might sometimes be the right choice for a certain preset, it's not very much fun. So let's learn about your 16 other options: the FX Types. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 91 DELAY is a generic term for any effect that makes a copy of an input sound and repeats it a short time later. There are several delay FX in CS-80 V, and this first one is a good-sounding digital delay for all kinds of applications.
  • Page 92 Please use it responsibly and be ready to turn it down. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 93 (0.00 to 0.20) PING PONG is an effect where echoes alternate between the left and right sides • of the stereo field. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 94 (down); larger amounts can produce strange, inharmonic results or smoother and more musical 'boom' or 'shimmer' (try setting it to octaves). Pitch shift can be set to 24 semitones (2 octaves) up or down. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 95 (HP Freq 20 Hz to 10000 Hz, LP Freq 250 Hz to 20000 Hz)  You also have three modes available in the upper-left corner of the visualizer: Normal, Oct. Up, and Oct. Down, as shown below. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 96 'echo chambers' in studios. Sometimes less width means more depth. (0.00 to 0.500) Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 97 INPUT LP rolls off the high frequencies of the input before it hits the reverb. • This softens the overall sound and removes overly tinny treble effects. Its cutoff frequency ranges from 100 Hz to 20000 Hz. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 98 6.3.4.5. Distortion Distortion offers the most options of any CS-80 V FX type. It might seem strange to you that all this effort should be put into a 'fuzzbox', but electronic musicians have known for years that there are many different kinds of signal distortion, each with its unique sonic signature –...
  • Page 99 'fold over' the peaks of waveforms to create more harmonics, there are unusual types such as Asymmetrical, Wiggle, Stairs, Howl, Core, Push, and Climb. Want to know how all these funky shapes sound? Try them for yourself! Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 100 1.00 x (highest quality) to 80.0 x (trashed). The more downsampling, more aliasing affects the sound, with inharmonic frequencies 'folding down' below the highest frequency the bitcrusher can deliver. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 101 In these cases, the compressor will have controls for Attack and Release to delay the onset or finish of compression. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 102 100 to 1, which is effectively brickwall limiting , where no signal is ever allowed to go above a certain level. This is often used for digital mastering to prevent clipping. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 103 ATTACK and RELEASE adjust the onset and removal of compression (-1.0 to 1.0) • A drop-down menu lets you choose between combined compression and expansion (ABOVE & BELOW) and compression alone (BELOW ONLY). Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 104 Sometimes one voice is all you need for a tiny bit of thickening or vibrato, but three voices is overwhelming. (Of course, getting overwhelmed can be fun, too.) Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 105 Note that if a stereo patch where Phase is turned all the way up is mixed to mono, the two sides will cancel each other out and the chorus will disappear – a common and annoying discovery for guitarists whose stereo chorus pedals always worked this way! Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 106 Parallel routing, inverting one LFO and synchronizing the two panners produces centered effects that widen and shrink the stereo field, as one panner moves the sound left while the other moves the sound right. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 107 LFO Wave is selected from the waveform button on the display. It opens a • drop-down menu of six different waveforms, each of which will produce a significantly different phasing. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 108 Unlike chorus, where feedback is an unusual added control that's best used sparingly, Feedback on a flanger is essential to creating its distinctive resonant timbre. (0.00 to 0/990) Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 109 One changes the LFO waveform from a sine to a triangle, producing a dramatically different flange; the other inverts the polarity of the feedback, producing two different tonal spectra. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 110 6.3.4.14. BL-20 Flanger The BL-20 Flanger is based on the sound of Arturia's Flanger BL-20 plug-in, which is in turn based on the sound of a rare but beautiful-sounding hardware flanger from the 1970s. It doesn't provide all of the BL-20's capabilities, but it still sounds amazing! RATE is the speed of the LFO that varies the delay time.
  • Page 111 2000 Hz (CombFB, CombFF) RESONANCE: sets the resonance of the filter. (0.500 to 15.0) • SLOPE: lets you choose between 12dB/octave slope, 24 dB/octave slope, and 36 • dB/octave slope. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...
  • Page 112 In the screenshot above, the Parametric EQ has been set to tightly notch out hum at 60 and 120 Hz, gently boost the lows and lower the highs, and provide a broad bump in the upper mids. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Advanced Panel...

  • Page 113: The End (For Now)

    6.4. The end (for now) And with that, we've concluded our tour of CS-80 V, and now it's time to get programming! Even though you've learned enough to find your way around CS-80 V, you might want to learn a bit more about the basic synthesis principles behind it, especially if you're new to subtractive synthesis.

  • Page 114: The Basics Of Subtractive Synthesis

    – even new ones based on digital processes like sampling, ROM playback, wavetable scanning, and vector synthesis. While the original CS-80 (and therefore, naturally, also the CS-80 V model) has a few unique elements to its architecture – after all, it was one of the very first polyphonic synthesizers in the world, and Yamaha's engineers were making it up as they went –...
  • Page 115 'woody' sounds (like a clarinet, if the square signal is filtered), etc. Shape and harmonic content of a square wave Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Basics of Subtractive Synthesis...
  • Page 116 CS-80, the sine wave bypasses the filter because there's nothing to filter but one harmonic, and that can be turned up and down manually to set its level. Shape and harmonic content of a sine wave Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Basics of Subtractive Synthesis...
  • Page 117 VCO's waveform, a separately mixable part of one VCO's output, or a separate source that is mixed in later. On CS-80 V, both VCOs have a mixable noise waveform, and the Sub Oscillator can be set to produce noise.

  • Page 118: The Voltage Controlled Filter (Vcf)

    HPF before the LPF, as the CS-80 does. (You won't find a synthesizer with only an HPF; they're not that useful for making conventional sounds on their own.) Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Basics of Subtractive Synthesis...
  • Page 119 The band-pass filter (BPF) technically isn't a filter of its own on the CS-80 or • CS-80 V. It's what you get when you put the two filters, HPF and LPF, in series and adjust their cutoffs so that only a certain band of frequencies around the cutoff gets through.

  • Page 120: The Voltage Controlled Amplifier (Vca) And The Full Signal Path

    CS-80 VCA has a final Level control after its envelope. When we put all the pieces together, our signal path looks a bit like this: The CS-80 V signal path Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Basics of Subtractive Synthesis...

  • Page 121: Modulation: Making The Sound Change

    The Attack Level (AL) is the maximum level of the filter envelope; we need to • add this parameter to control the shape of the envelope relative to the cutoff frequency. Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Basics of Subtractive Synthesis...

  • Page 122: The Keyboard

    When we let go of the key, then the release happens. These signals shape the volume of a note (starting and stopping it) and its tone over time (to simulate the behavior of acoustic instruments, etc). Naturally, on CS-80 V, these signals come from a MIDI controller. ...

  • Page 123: The Low Frequency Oscillator (Lfo)

    If we apply the LFO to the VCF cutoff, it goes up and down in an effect similar to a wah-wah pedal. • If we apply the LFO to the VCA level, the volume goes up and down and we have tremolo . Arturia - User Manual CS-80 V - The Basics of Subtractive Synthesis...

  • Page 124: Seeing The Whole Picture

    The CS-80 V offers six different waveforms on the Sub Oscillator; the extra waveforms account for the fact that an LFO often needs more ways to control a signal than the waveforms we listen to at higher frequencies. The waveforms include sine, sawtooth down, sawtooth up, square, noise, and sample &...

  • Page 125: Software License Agreement

    The License is not a sale of the original SOFTWARE. 2. Grant of License Arturia grants you a non-exclusive license for the use of the software according to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You may not lease, loan or sub- license the software.
  • Page 126 (a) return of the purchase price or (b) replacement of the disk that does not meet the Limited Warranty and which is returned to Arturia with a copy of your receipt. This limited Warranty is void if failure of the software has resulted from accident, abuse, modification, or misapplication.

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