Yamaha CS-80 Song List
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Table of Songs featuring Yamaha CS-80
| Artist | Song | Year | Notes | Reference | Media URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After The Fire | One Rule | 1979 | Rock band with Peter Banks on CS-80 (and in this TOTP clip, big solo on Moog Multimoog) | Peter Banks Video | YouTube |
| After The Fire | Time To Think | 1979 | Rock band with Peter Banks on CS-80, heard in the gated synth from the start | Peter Banks Video | YouTube |
| Herbie Hancock | Mr. Hands (album) | 1980 | Keyboards [Emu Polyphonic Keyboard, Clavitar], Synthesizer [Waves Minimoog, Minimoog, Prophet 5, Oberheim 8 Voice, Yamaha Cs-80, Arp 2600], Clavinet [Hohner], Electric Piano [Rhodes 88 Suitcase Piano], Vocoder [Sennheiser], Drum Machine [Linn-Moffett Drum Synthesizer], Computer [Modified Apple Ii Plus Microcomputer], Piano – Herbie Hancock | Discogs | YouTube" |
| Peter Howell | Doctor Who theme:
- Intro sting - Bassline |
1980 | Peter Howell demonstrates exactly how he used the CS-80 to create the intro ring-modulator 'sting' (from presets 'funky I' and 'funky II') and bassline (also 'funky I' and 'funky II') for the 1980 version of the theme tune. | YouTube Documentary | Intro Sting |
| Michel Normandeau | Jouer | 1979 | "Synthesizer [Yamaha Cs-80, Minimoog]. Rock / Folk / World. | Discog | YouTube" |
| Bruce Springsteen | Born In The USA | 1984 | The iconic synth stabs of this song were played by Roy 'The Professor' Bittan | YouTube Documentary | YouTube |
| Ultravox | Hymn | 1982 | The Hymn' starts with a vocal intro accompanied by a throaty vocoder-type PPG preset mixed with multi-tracked vocals — sounding like a choir. The chorus section main theme is done by Billy on the CS80 (with the ribbon controller — a trade mark of ours!)” | E&MM 1983 | YouTube |
| Vangelis | Blade Runner (Film Soundtrack) | 1982 | "Instruments which stand out include the ubiquitous Yamaha CS80, which provided the eerie synth solo heard over the opening titles."
Nice recreation here demonstrating opening titles theme: YouTube |
SOS 1997 | YouTube |
| Vangelis | The Long March | Vangelis: "The solo line in “The Long March” from that album creates the impression of a string instrument very strongly. I think I did that with the Yamaha CS-80. I used that a lot on that album." | Keyboard 1982 | YouTube (Solo at 1:01) | |
| Richard Wahnfried | Time Actor (album) | 1979 | Richard Wahnfried is pseudonym for the collective comprising Klaus Schulze, Arthur Brown, Wolfgang Tiepold, Vincent Crane, Michael Shrieve, Harmony Brown | Discogs | YouTube |
| Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade | The Pentateuch of The Cosmogony (album) | 1979 | Composed By, Arranged By, Keyboards [Polymoog, Prophet 5, Roland Rs202, Yamaha Cs60 Synth, Yamaha Cs80 Synth, Yamaha Cp70b Piano, Arp Explorer, Arp Omni, Cat Synth, Church Organ, Crumar Stringman, Hohner Clavinet, Kitten Synth, Mellotron 400, Minimoog], Vocoder [Sennheiser], Programmed By [Sds Drum Synth 3] – Dave Greenslade | Discogs | YouTube |
