Yamaha CS-20M: A gorgeous analog synth from 1979 + FREE SAMPLES!

I was craving more when your video ended. Any chance you will post the raw footage of the hour you spent experimenting and exploring? In the 8 mins of your video I was transported back to my 13 year old self and hypnotized by those sounds!

Very cool ! Merci beaucoup !

This is great! After playing with all the presets that you made, I loaded the last one that lets you create a new preset and made something really spooky. Not sure if it’s any good for music, but it could be for some scary scene.

Gives Lena Raine vibes

Great demo, I used to own this synth long ago but sold it due to it's size. You got some great sounds out of it! It sounds very old and nice, but it's very heavy and bulky and those side panels are ugly with imitated wood

it's got a feature that is not very common on synths: you can blend in a sine tone for more bass paralell to the filter, if I remember correctly

Thanks

Okay that’s going on my grail synth list

One day it will be possibile to have a mono sound with portamento/glide on decent sempler? Congrats and thank you for all of your work man!

Thank you for all you do and all the free things you give us

I like that you just ended up making Celeste music

Man this channel just continues to be a hidden gem.

dude. splendid track and inspiring story behind this beautiful piece of hardware.

great video bro, that synth sounds fantastic. and it's great to have a piece of the owner live on after passing to the next journey. and your song you composed is lovely.

Cooyill

The CS-20M, a nice predecessor to the CS-70M, but certainly no real connection to the CS-80.
If i had the money and the confidence (Yamaha) I'd go for a CS-70M, not a CS-80. There are enough candidates for a CS-80 already. Of course that is an epic instrument, but i prefer a real synth instead.
But i like your video: one rarely gets a demo of these old synths! Thank you.

This is an incredible find.

If you couldn’t figure out the LFO was on. Then you shouldn’t be playing a synthesizer.🤪

Hey David! I recently found your channel and just tonight I discovered that I could download the DecentSampler plugin to use your free samples. I am so thankful for the opportunity to enjoy these sounds for free with such ease of use. You have just inspired me to enjoy the gift of music after a long day. Thank you, and keep up the great work my friend!

Plantasia vibes

Japanese circuit boards from this era always had that look.

Just wanna say i think you totally undersold that decent sampler pack for this synth, it's incredible. Thank you.

You are an absolute gift to the music scene. True dedication. You do things no one else can or would.

Hey, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, but the CS-20M actually has an 8 step sequencer built into it, it's one of the earliest onboard sequencers. You missed it!

What a beauty.

This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. It just happened to pop up, haha. Immediately subscribed! Keep it up!

This is amazing! I hope you'll get your hands on a 70s crumar or korg string synth someday haha. You're so generous for making these large sample libraries, thanks so much :)

Great video and awesome music! Some serious Minecraft vibes here!

It's a good synth that you could find for under $500 like many lower numbers in the CS series. I got mine given to me as well from an old fella who played it in a Portuguese polka group.

the last part sounds like Tomita, which is great

Trip down memory lane for me David. My first synth in 1980 was the CS30L which had the 8 note sequencer you were looking for. As ever with you such great content.

Thanks David for this beautiful work....Even a Soundbuilder is included! That's great fun to play with! 🙂

Its taken me years but I think I've figured out why I always think the instrument is on the wall in every video. It must be the shadow direction

Absolutely love your videos! Your presentation is so relaxing and enjoyable and the instruments you find are such an important part of the fabric of music production. Please keep them coming. Just one suggestion for you for your future repairs, when possible during soldering, you should have it disconnected from the circuit board. The transfer of heat to a component on the board could fry something else and that would not be good on an instrument this old. Thanks again for a wonderful video.

hey man, can you talk about yamaha cs01?

Awesome! some of the sounds remind me of Mother Earth's Plantasia, by Mort Garson :)

Mesmerizing as always. I'm inspired to fix some issues with a couple of my vintage synths. Thanks, David!

My first synth owned and loved since the 80:s ,and guess by ear and experience ,the "presets" aren´t programmed......... the synth sounds like that when battery has run out of power and it has "reset" itself randomly ,it gets into a certain strange genre and can even make sounds that´s not really tweakable with the knobs ,that is a kind of weird and cool artifact,and yes you can do the Vangelis fat bladerunner lead sound with it, and just add a creamy big reverb.

I just found a Packard Pump organ at a thrift store and it made me think of you. Then that made me think that maybe I could do the same as you do - I could restore any broken parts and sample all the notes with all the combinations of stops... then I came to my sense. Needless to say, the organ is still at the thrift store!

inspiring as always!

The only channel I Like the video before it even starts loading.

Thank you for another amazing video!

Please do a video about the Omnichord

Wow, memory for presets in a 1979 synth - Seq. Circuits pro-1 was a nice mono synth, but there was no memory for saving patches. $600. new in the early 80's. It had a step sequencer.

Cool. You’re so methodical. ❤

Invented to back Horror movies. Loved your natural reaction ... to have FUN. Your tone when you say "for something from the 70s .." however cost you points. You inherit the work of so many people who were gifted and determined.

Ultravox!