I am trying really hard but I don't hear a CS80..... perhaps its the effects...

Wonderful, thanks for sharing…and please make an album out of this.

This is an excerpt from another recording that came into being while working on some new material for a new album release. This time, it's a bit more ambient, less melodies (huh?), and the CS was run through a Roland PH-830 Stereo Phase Shifter to add some "swirl" to it.
Reverbs and delays used were, among others, a Dynacord DRP-15, Sony DPS-R7/D7/M7, and a Roland SRV-330.

Yamaha CS 80 Improvisation 2

It is very possible this is the only recording of this rare synth demo on the planet!

Whilst restoring the ex Klaus Schulze GDS (originally used on  his 1980 Album, Dig It) back in 2014 I found a number of what appeared to be demo sequences on one of the 8 inch disks.  These may well have been supplied with the instrument by the Digital Keyboards sales team or just may have been for a demonstration at NAMM circa 1980.

I loaded up and recorded this one from the GDS which was a nice demonstration of the instrument's multi-timbral capabilites. 

Released in 1979, the GDS was a groundbreaking all digital instrument based on Hal Alles' Alles Machine at Bell Labs and featured 32 high speed digital oscillators implementing a mixture of FM and additive synthesis in 16-bit audio with two 16 stage loopable EGs per oscillator, velocity sensitive keyboard, multi-timbral playback and a built in sequencer!

The name of the demo is a mystery - at first I thought it might be a reference to Nyle Steiner but he didn't think there was a connection.

Maybe the NY in NYLE1 stands for New York?... who knows!

1979 General Development System: Ultra Rare Original GDS Demo "NYLE1"

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PS - 3300 Démo- (chœurs)

"doombient" is a registered trademark. I thought I´d point that out first :).

Thank you for listening and enjoying. If you like what you hear, please feel free to check my Bandcamp sites:

http://ramp1.bandcamp.com/  http://stephenparsick.bandcamp.com/

And yes, I´ve got some modern instruments as well.

Yamaha CS 80 Improvisation 2

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