Bad Gear - Yamaha CS1x - Not Exactly My Thing
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Yamaha CS1x. How can it be that this 90s classic is absolutely not my thing? 
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General Midi showed great bravery when he fought in the war.
Mad Dog Midi!!!
😊 I Wonder how he felt once they'd extended him.
The Protocol Wars
Tragically he got five times shot in the head!
@osspaljeni classic
"I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but Im not sure where to go from here. I haven't made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all." -- AudioPilz
That one was a random meme find but sums up the whole topic rather nicely
@@AudioPilz I think it sums up your personality quite well.😂
It was blue, and I liked the way it sounded in 1996, and still miss mine.
@@AudioPilz best meme ever.
"Then I thought that using the frequencies everyone else uses to make music was disingenuous, so I became a god and re-organized the heavens" -- I'm watching you from the sky
i just can't bring myself to hate this thing. it was my first "real" synth, bought off ebay when i was 16 with the money i'd saved up over the summer. despite its limitations and datedness, i had so much fun messing around and writing songs on it back then. i still love my cs1x, can't imagine ever parting with it!
First love is the deepest!
Same here....I literally learned the basics on the Cs1x. Of course my next Synth was a complete different beast (Yamaha EX5) but I still have some beautiful pads and look leads I programmed on the Cs1x...I also learned that the most important thing about a synth is the time YOU put in to it...
"datedness" ?? If you like it, you like it.... why should you let this fool with 4 sets of headphones on his head try to make you think it sucks? Why does this person matter to anyone? Why do people need to spend time on graphics and videos just to tell you about a synth? It's almost as if its a joke. Placing stupid movie scene clips in between.
Gen-X: 90's Rompler PTSD
Millenial: "SWEET, a 90s Rompler! Now I can sound like a public television station in 1996! And it's only $5 so I don't have to choose between gear, rent, and food this month!"
Gen-Z: "What's a rompler? All gear made before 2010 sounds the same to me"
Really loled hard😂😂😂
I like how you leave Ableton's crash notice up for the video. That's a vibe I can really relate to.
Thank you!!!
@@AudioPilz Speaking of the SH series you gotta get your hands on an SH-32. Had one for a minute, and for the life of me, I could not figure out what it was supposed to be or why it had been built.
@@johnwilmarth833 I got one recently and it's one of the most frustrating but also fun synthesizes I've ever used
Thank you so much for giving us something to look forward to on lockdown friday nights. The humour is off the charts, as always!
Thank you so much!
Great review as usual. As an Australian, I found it heartwarming seeing the Austrian flag there.
Thanks!
Much better than the Australian flag. Those red stripes are so uninspirational!
In Hamburg, we often do have Austrian flags attached to the bridges.
The casual bangers you throw into this video are some humble FIRE. Love it. Such an awesome way to be reminded it's Friday. Happy weekend Bad Gear homies!
Thank you!!!
I know you hate this synth but I absolutely loved the tracks you put together with it! Alone, it sounds tiny, fragile, weak. But when put together in your vid, it offered a sweetness and delicacy that helps me understand why some people swear by it. Despite all that, I appreciate your notes that it wasn't fun to work on. Your suffering brought us some lovely tunes :)
Thank you so much!
The sound of the CS1X was and is why we like it. It has massive 80s vibes, great for synthwave etc.
Used this synth a lot for gigging: Lightweight, "decent" sampled piano, organ (for the nineties), and great sampled analog sounds. Great memories. Also has a deep MIDI implementation with real-time sysex. Thank you for the great tracks and entertaining video. Loved it.
Thanks for watching!
You add such excitement to my mornings with every video you put out!! You deserve many more fans!
Thanks! Happy to hear that!
the amount of jokes and puns in this one is off the charts, made my day.
Thanks!
Definitely in G#9/Ab9 territory
I've been saying this for almost 20 years now.. there is no bad gear.. just bad musicians.. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Certainly true!
I don't know..."Bad" musicians? I have known a lot of great musicians that just wouldn't get any creative inspiration from a lot of synths. Take an amazing violinist who spent decades of their life honing their craft and can perfectly play any sheet on sight, they might not have the creative training for improv or know a thing about ARP's...but that doesn't make them "bad musicians", just not training in same area so don't "see" the creative possibilities as readily...you DO! So that's cool! Just say'n don't fall in trap of having put other artists below you because their creative flow or craft is simply different. Ya know?
@@pimusicproduction
Ouch someone sounds upset.
What the OP was saying except you seem to have misinterpreted it is that A good musician will sound good on any instrument where as a bad musician will sound bad no matter how good the instrument is.
And whilst I agree with that sentiment there are sometimes instruments that are so bad they sound terrible no matter how good a musician you are.
As to your comparison that somehow a musician who spends many years playing violin is any more a musician than one that spends an equal length of time playing synthesizers leaves me not entirely sure what you mean. sight reading doesn't necessarily make someone a great musician. The same way as someone who doesn't read music doesn't mean they cant be considered a musician.
As lt happens synthesizers do inspire creativity every time I'be bought a new synth i've explored other avenues that I may never have even considered without the inspiration of the sound coming out of said synthesizer .
There some truly awful synths out there… and detuned pianos with broken keys, hammers and dampers…
You've got it backwards: ALL gear is bad gear. 😜
"Suffering from 90s Dance Rompler PTSD ..." must be the generation after "suffering from DX7 Electric Piano PTSD" ...:)
Wasn't that the generation before? ;)
@@AudioPilz Probably. It's Friday. :)
I'm happy someone has identified the name of my disease in the late 90s. Glad to know it's not just me. That was the only time in my life when I lost my love and enthusiasm toward synths.
@@midimoog It was a terrible time for synths. Take a terrible sample of a 303 then put a whistly filter on top. NO
@@__teles__ - Hell yeah.. The dogshit days of synths were what made me just clock out and I only clocked back in when PC CPU's were powerful enough for softsynths and quality VST's. The industry finally saw sense tho.
"An unhealthy percentage of sellers on Reverb need to get a goddamn life" lol
Sad but true
Or at least a proper appreciation for appropriate pricing on used gear
"I'm sorry, Yamaha CS1x but we need to break up. It's not you....it's me. No, it's actually you"
_"Whatever! If you can't me at my sharps and flats, you don't deserve me at my naturals!"_
Great work as always. Keep it up!
Thanks!!!
Florian, you're just killing it! You've easily become the top synth / gear reviewer on RUclips. Bad Gear is a Great Channel!
I can't wait to see you try the Alesis Fusion, maybe the V-Synth, the ESQ-1, the original Korg Waveststion, the Casio CZ series, the Yamaha SY-77, the Roland SH-32, and the Korg Microstation (I'm sure you've already done one or two of these and I just can't recall).
Thank you so much! Great input, I'll take a closer look (especially the Fusion is interesting!)
@@AudioPilz It definitely is the penultimate example of "ticking off all of the boxes"…and yet there is no shortage of hate for it.
I'll not influence your opinion except to say that there is also an underground community of users who, even after all of these years, remain devoted to it (while treading water in the ocean of hate for it).
If you're careful, too, the prices for it can be flat - out stupifyingly cheap.
Keep up the great work, Florian! 👍
We use three CS1X synths on stage, the Stanglers ALSO use Three!! fantastic synths to use live, cant rate them enough +++++++++++
Great for real keyboarders in a band context!
Enjoying the show every godam’ week. And I dig your library in the background more and more ^^
Thanks!
Dude, with each video your memes game and video production is getting better and better and it was high quality to begin with. Also, those tasty jams man
Thank you so much!
The broken case makes it sound more analog too by introducing non-linearities due to the altered air flow. VST's can never emulate that :)
Science wins!!!
The case was broken on purpose to keep the unit cool and avoid getting over-heated.
It is the first time you pissed me off with a review, the first synth I ever got, and I think it is an absolute classic till this day
agreed!
Wow, that bad boy has see better days, I'm very amazing about how you could get the best of each piece of gear that you test. Nice work, each beat that you create is so great. General Midi is proud of you.
Thanks, Sir!
i didn't even know that this synth exists ....und ich kenn mich echt aus. Danke für die Episode. Immer wieder eine Freude deine Videos anzuschauen!!! much love and support from munich
Besten Dank!
Fun fact: Many of the GM/XG voices on this keyboard (and by extension, Yamaha's AWM-powered gear at the time such as the MU/QY series) can still be heard on their low/mid-range keyboards today.
That sample set is really nice!
Actually its the same soundset as the Sy series its just that on the Sy series the sounds are far more usable
@@Lamster66 : TG-500 had them back in 1992.
@@Nord72
I know thats why I said it
Add TG55 and Sy 55 and 77 to that list.
Still got mine, still easy to use and great sounds
Always envied people who could make it sing
Woah, now this was a synth I didn't expect to see here. Excellent video!
PS: I take back the Korg Monotribe suggestion as I actually did my research afterwards.
Thank you!!!
I managed to buy one of these a couple of months back for just $100, really loving it as a beginner synth just for the ease of use.
That's a really cool price!!!
I've been waiting for this one! this was the first synth I ever had
Cool! Thanks for watching!
I had one for many years - I bought it because it had knobs so you could change things on the fly - a real novelty after ten years of programming synths through a letter box display and with little or no real time controls. But then I’m a keyboard player, so I fit the description you used towards the end of your video!
Cool! Always happy when a synth like the CS1x works for someone
I used to have one of these, I was one of the people who suggested you feature it. The intro tune already had me LOLing
Thank you!!!
Hand grip turns SH-101 into LOL-HS at 0:34
Classic!
i love my cs1x... to me it's all about how you use it..another youtuber made a video using the cs1x to the fullest..making a 90's trance track with it..i wouldn't call it bad gear myself.. it's a synth of the 90's..and sounds like a 90's synth
And dont forget the 80s sound it also offer. It goes amazingly well with the sound of the Commodore SID chip.
Oh man, a video about my first synth! Bought one of these on a whim a few years back (got it for $200 back during the beginnings of the analog revival) after hanging out with some friends who had a proper studio. It was a terrible introduction to the fundamentals of synthesis, but the amount of interesting sounds it let me make with no real knowledge definitely got me hooked, and now that I understand more about electronic music, it still sees use as a midi-controlled device.
Agreed! Great midi controller!
I'd personally like to see NI maschine 1 on here in future
Thanks! Great idea, I'll take a closer look!!!
"And an unhealthy proportion of sellers on Reverb need to get a goddamn life."
I fucking lost it. As a vintage PC enthusiast, I feel your pain. I just recently paid 'only 100 bucks' for an Awe64 Gold, and not too long ago balked at the idea of paying 80 bucks for a working Voodoo 2. (They're more than double that now)
Yeah, it has become kind of ridiculous
CS1x is a beast.
I can remember a lot of people who could really make it sing. Never got it tbh
Nice bit of info there. I was into Hocico in high school and had a CS1x. But never would have guessed!
I found the AN1X pretty cool back then.
Hmm...
Hocico.
😙
MIDI files always sounded awesome on Yamaha's XG sounds. Also, the An1x is the true CS successor of that era.
True on both accounts!
All your videos kill! Your music is sooooo catchy! Best thing on RUclips!
Thank you!!!
As always, super enjoyable vid!
Thanks!
I'm in the mintority here cause I actually think it sounds great. Some of us like that old sound.
Yes :)
Definitely has a fan base ;)
It sounds very clean and complete, for just one unit by itself.
1:34 “At least here in Austria” = my favourite joke of this episode 😂 🇦🇹 🇦🇹 🇦🇹
...a joke many people wouldn't get ;)
@@AudioPilz There are two kinds of people who will get the joke... The Austrians with kangaroos and poisonous animals in their front yards and those without! :D
Austria-lians😂😂
@@MischaSMK09 Hahaha!
Seems like Austria and Australia get as mixed up as Sweden (my home country) and Switzerland. :)
So in Sweden, the two kinds of people who would get a similar joke would be the people who Yodle all the time, have tons of chocolate and wake up to Cuckoo Clocks and then there's people who don't!
fantastic!I have a cs1x in my shed,like the reference to Dr mix, really excited about this video.I actually used the cs1x in the last few years gigging with a band,I replaced it with an fa06
Thanks! Still not sure if Claudio will talk to me as long as I am below 100k subs ;)
@@AudioPilz he talks to me occasionally and I have no subs 😀
Another fabulous video.
Thanks!
10 fingers and knowledge of music theory is the best arpeggiator.
True! Trial and terror works too;)
8 fingers and two thumbs are better.
@@mahkova23 it is not my fault if your parents could not afford the 10 finger genetic modification.
I remember that era when Nord was new and all the rage, Roland did the JP-8000, Korg the MS-2000 and Yamaha this one. This is actually the first time I hear it's sounds, and I always thought it was a modelling synth like the others and not a rompler. They sure marketed it as a old school revival of sorts, but I guess that was only in terms of the name and the control surface. Thank you for showcasing it 🙂
Thanks for watching!
You might be confusing this with the Yamaha AN1X. Same body, color, similar layout, and it’s possibly the BEST virtual analog of that era. THIS one (the CS1x) was kind of an abortion.
Definitely check out videos on the AN1X
@@halcyo Hey, I think you're right! My apologies, my memory ain't what it used to be 🙈😊 but yeah, they sure did look alike
This channel just makes me so happy. I'll name my first born child Baddy McGeary if you take a crack at the Roland EF303 which i cannot for the life of me figure out.
I would consider that an honor and I'd be happy to be The Godfather of the child (Marlon Brando style;)
Again a great video! How about doing one on the Kawai K1? The poor man’s D-50 it was called by some.
Thanks! Currently searching for one but it seems it's a keeper for most people
"and I can still use the CS1x as an excuse when my music sucks" 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, it works for over 20 years now;)
Did he just show the Australia Flag for Austria????!?!?! Why yes, he did! Check out between time: 1:33 and 1:35 and enjoy the giggle! Well played my freund, well played indeed.
No kangaroos around here;)
@@AudioPilz Reminds me of the time Moog helpfully shipped something to Austria for me.
I immediately showed this to the kangaroos in my garden in lower austria :D
I was online looking at used stage pianos as a substitute for my bigger synths (Kronos, M3, etc). Ended up seeing a CS1x on the site I was looking at for pretty cheap and was like, what the hell. Your video had perked my interest to go through the purchase. I play in a classic rock coverband so I think it might fit in nicely. That guy from KOSmusic certainly makes this thing sound great. Thanks man!
That one is really nice for a classic live situation. The sounds sit well in the mix
Plenty of diverse artists keep the Cs1x around! It may not be the best out there but it's unique and fun to use. To be honest I know it's not an expensive synth but I wouldn't sell mine for cheap, I'd be kicking myself for it. I have a rev 2, sh01a, and a mininova and I probably use the Cs1x the most for sampling into a sp404.
Great video, enjoyed the visuals and the jam was kinda sick my guy. 😆
Thanks! Nice setup!
I played this synth live with a TG33,Sr16 and a Brother Sequencer. Never had any complaints. :)
Wow, TG33 - nice!!! Always wanted to try one of that vector Yammies
Never had any audience,then? 😉 Sry, just kiddin'! Cheers mate
@@AudioPilz Very underrated synth!!!
"and I can still use the CS1x as an excuse when my music sucks" lol, I will use it all the time then :)
great video, keep up the great content!
Thanks!
Finally! This video definitely ticks all of my boxes. And my god that is the most electro-punk looking CS1x I've seen.
It's the post-apocalyptic version ;)
I owned the CS1x and the SU10 and used them in this way for my first two albums in the mid 90's as well as some other tracks I made then. Also used the CS1x when I was in a rock band in early 2000s and then sold it to my friend who had one like it but the whole synth melted in his car.
It seems like the plastic enclosure was not made for eternity ;)
@@AudioPilz haha, well, truly, I took care of mine and it was in perfect condition but yeah, don't throw it and don't leave it in a hot car in the summer.
Do you have links to the albums online? I also used the CS1x quite a bit at one point. Not sure one which tracks though.
I'm an AN1x owner, and that synth is for the good gear show for sure. It has basically the same case-design, and i often used the "sampler-holder" for a Volca or effects.
The AN1x seems to be the one that aged better
@@AudioPilz : no way, cs1x is a toy beside it.
I'd love to imagine that the previous owner of the machine was a session keyboardist trying to nail a particularly tasty solo and messing up the bends on the pitchwheel take after take. Eventually he had enough and went nuclear on it. :^)
This would have been a better story than the postman haveing a bad day;)
good vid and some nice tunes in there - you made the unit sound good
I got one years ago after the amazing Jexus video for the CS2x (also one of his funniest vids) and I couldn't find a CS2x so I got a CS1x - it had some stuff I liked about it, but I have better synths/romplers to play on a regular basis, so it's been in the corner for a while but all the plastic is intact :-P
Thank you! Jexus - the legend! I truly admire him!
I recently bought one for the sounds it puts out for me it's nostalgic as growing up in the 90s still hearing 80s music in movies and shows you really helped me on navigating the performance mode I thought the filter was broken and some of the knobs didn't do anything but then you showed me in the video why thank you yeah I can understand the synth is not for everyone and after diving into it it feels limited coming from a software plug-in like absynth 3 and of course I could have just sampled a RUclips video of the cs X1 but I wanted to try my first time buying an old unit and yes unfortunately it was at the time that synthesizers use cheap plastic material as my keyboard when it was shipped from Japan got damaged from FedEx just like yours in the video the pitch wheel got jammed into the unit not as bad and I was able to fix it with some Legos and super glue and glue gun glue to wear the top looks normal a little cracked but functional
Legos and super glue! Cool method!!!
You would of been better off spending your money on some punctuation. ;)
"Chromatic Doorbell" - Best. Description. Of. Crap. Synths. EVER. Oh, that really did make me laugh, especially as it was a Roland SH-201 sliding past :) 100% RUclips Gold.
Thanks!
you already had my like with the "sexy beast" clip but the rest of the vid was predictably great
Thanks!
I swear this is the only RUclips with a justified intro, by literally using sounds of the instrument you are going to review
Thanks! Happy to hear that!
I saw mine in my basement storage this week. Must be a sign to pick it up again... Best midi workstation ever, plus versatile tour keyboard/preset fake synth.
I love my cs2x, for some projects it had all the right sounds for more... normal people ears. I feel like its a MoPhatt with a keyboard, and without the endless percussion. Navigating it and editing is a NIGHTMARE but for out of the box cheeze, it gets an A++
It's a total 90s time machine!
All the people who were upset about me using Goldfinger dialogue to joke about the Blofeld are going to have a massive coronary over Princess Vespa. ;)
I expect you to comb the desert!
@@AudioPilz Tuvok ain't found shit.
@@AudioPilz Only if you Jam the Radar ;-)
The yellow of the keys matches nicely with the blue livery.
Colors of the 90s;)
Very fond memories of playing this in my music technology course in the late 90’s
I even had to use it at my final exam ;)
Bough a second hand CS1x for £120 a few years ago. Love it! Perfect from drum n bass (try the B900 drums) and ambient house tracks. I agree that it takes a deep dive to really get to grips with the synthesis but compared to a DX7 this is almost a user friendly experience!
Yeah, DX7 is an entirely different beast ;)
The CS1x, along with the JP8000 is all over my 1st couple of albums. Sold it years ago but just re-bought it this weekend. Love this and it’s so versatile when you dig deep
👍
I tried digging deep the problem I had with it was, that when you get a sound almost to where you want it, a slight move a knob a fraction and the whole sound disappears up is own backside and you end up with something totally unexpected..
so you move it back expecting it to reverse the action back to where you were and it doesn't! It wasn't that intuitive to use and even when you managed to get a sound you wanted out of it I found that I've got at least 6 other synths that would do the sound better and about 30 synths to chose from that just sound better.
They'd have been better off just putting a single button on it that randomly assigns values to parameters to give random patches If you got a usable sound 1 push in every 50 that would be better than spending hours getting sounds nothing like you wanted in the first place
This is the first bad gear episode where I found every aspect of this unit's sound agitating. Usually you find a way to pull at the very least something usable out of a piece of gear, but this sounds bad. Great video! Thanks for really getting into some bad gear!!
Thanks! I know a lot of people who can really make it shine and it is frustrating that I can't pull it off
Honestly I think you did a good job on the 2 jams you made. Could make some epic modern synth wave!
Thank you!!!
Funny how this is so bad while the synth that shares the same housing is one the best digital synths ever: the AN1x
Correct, Officer;) AN1x seems to have aged much better
Bad ? Nothing bad on .
Me to I love my AN1x even after 22 yrs it's still my favorite .
An1x was and is one of the best I've ever used.
The only reason the AN1x wasn't successful was because it looked like the CS1x, and was overlooked by producers back in the day
This was my first synth - paid about 1200 DM for a brand new one. This was my biggest mistake, but I learned really alot about MIDI SysEx Messages... Hands up for this reminder that in the old days not everything was great (and will not become great again)
It indeed is a crash course in Sysex!
First video I've seen where someone don't like it, I bought one last week and will be setting it up soon to get into it all. All I see is positive reviews for it everywhere. Can't be that bad! If it is apparently simple or has limits then surely that pushes your creativity to the max so you can get much more out of it than you should 😉
It's an instrument that works great for many players - for be (and a bunch of others - not so much;)
@@AudioPilz To be or not to me.
Excellent as usual
Thank you!
Bought one of these maybe 5(ish) years ago for 120 euros locally from a nice suburban dude, who sat in his dark house and smoked like 9823719 cigarettes in the 20 minutes we were chatting. I hoped for charmingly cheesy sounds, and it kind of delivers those, but I didn't enjoy the overall concept and guess were also too lazy to go deeper into editing. It felt like a preset machine to me and the sounds felt plasticy and fake, but in a somehow overproduced way I didn't connect with. I sold it a few months later for 100 euros to a kid who told me, that he wanted to make 90s techno with it. He also told me, the thing would be awesome, the prices would rise and I would be super stupid to sell it that cheap, which seemed like a weird thing to say to the guy, you want to buy the synth from. Seeing todays prices I guess he was right though. But well, I have no regrets selling gear cheap that I got cheap. Playing that thing made feel like the keyboard guy of some party band. I liked the blue colour though.
Maybe that kid is a Bitcoin millionaire;)
Wow, it's not often I get to hear Rise of the Triad just randomly brought up in non-gaming videos.
Thanks! Best pre Mick Gordon game soundtrack and the ideal test for GM compatible sound modules
Great time as usual!
Thanks!
I've recently sold my CS1X, it had been in the loft for years, I bought it from new and used to sequence it to my Commodore Amiga, it was my first ever keyboard. Loved it at the time. But looking back, I wish I'd got the CS2x or the AN1X or even the CS6X, but for the time, I loved it.
It was certainly a powerful tool for the time. After reading all the comments I really want to try the AN1x now
I was honestly expecting the QY10 to sequence the first jam, you got me with the slightly-too-large-but-made-it-work-anyway Digitakt. 😂
Update: Extra points for WINTAGE, never change Florian ✌
Thank you!!!
Best intro monologue in the history of the show
Thank you!!!
Great review ! I agree with your review. I bought a CS1x in 1996 (my 2nd synth) and I liked the drums, looks, knobs, scenes, weight, FX, arpeggiator (except it doesn't transmit) so overall good, but the sound was too "gentle", it lacked body/fulness/presence/naughtiness. The D-50 sitting above it in my setup made the CS1x sound like a toy or cheap PC PCM soundcard and I sold it 2 years later to get hardware with more personality.
I've been WAITING for this one for like a year! My first synth! Coincidentally, I just sold it this month. Must be fate!
Do you miss it? ;)
@@AudioPilz NOPE!
This was one of the first synths I played on.... it was life changing....
For the better? ;)
@@AudioPilz yes, it was was for the better. I currently own the Yamaha Cs6x, Waldorf Microwave XT, Ensoniq ESQ1, behringer Neutron, and a few other things. I am obsessed with weird gear and love making noise...... I mean music lol 😆
Such an underrated synth. Mine permanently sits next to my Juno 6 and DX7. It holds its own in its own way and will never be sold. 90s Dance Piano sounds are worth its weight in plastic 🤣
Agreed, classic piano sound!!!
I had one and loved it.
thanks for reviewing this
Thanks for watching!
Great timing! I just saw a CS1x on FB Marketplace for $100... I am still very intrigued by it.
You can't go wrong for 100 bucks
Out of all the hardware I ever bought, CS1X gave me the most bang for buck, in terms of being something that aided producing a track. The default sounds in performance mode are really excellent and very usable, being interesting but not overly cliched. My only real gripe with it was as you mentioned, the arpeggiator, which is otherwise also fantastic but does not send it's output to midi. Also have a mc303, had not realised they came out in the same year - it's a piece of junk imo, as far as music making.
CS1X and MC303 - so different and yet so similar
Hihi, I remember the mc303's I got to play with in stores when it just came out, umm, I never understood what the point of that thing was. It was in the late 90's though, so Pilz may have mixed up the dates. I did also end up using a TB-303 for quite a bit then, and the MC was sooo different they had nothing at all in common. The TB was built like a childrens toy but sounded great, the MC seemed to be built quite OK but sounded like ass.
Mein allererster "Synthesizer"...
Und mein erster Fehlkauf. :D
Du hast ja auch viele schöne Sachen auf Lager ;)
@@AudioPilz Die vielen "unschönen" Sachen sind auch schnell wieder rausgeflogen.😄
You make beautiful music!
Thank you so much!
I was looking at this synth and the An1x back then and made the right decision…I got the An1x using the money I earned the hard way during my vacation job - and still have it to this day and play on it basically every time i sit down with my synths.
AN1x is super nice!
The Arpeggiator does not output the notes via MIDI, but they changed it with the CS2x. This one is the same, but totally different and IMHO the best of the whole CSx range
Nice color too!
I’m about to play some UT with the squad. Needless to say they gonna have to wait.
Kewl! Which UT?
@@AudioPilz UT99
@@tudorcotoi7011 2nd best game ever!
Was not expecting to see this here... deck 16?
Literally the best game LOL
Damn, I only have 2 synths & they're both on your Bad Gear list. Instant sub.
Nothing to be ashamed of ;)
I missed this video until a CS-1x came up locally. Thanks
...wait, I did watch this...when you said it was used for education in Austria, it all came back to me
Did you buy it?;)
@@AudioPilz LOL, F*CK no. Wants more than $300USD. For that I'm buying NEW Behringer anything or SERUM...and I still have a JP-8000 to repair.
Man you are sooo spot on! Laughing out loud at the "Australian" flag splash!! No mercy, keep 'em coming! :-)
Always a pleasure, thanks!
I personally love and prefer 90's VA sounds. Its the sound that got me into synthesizers.
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I bought mine in 1999 (Yes, for the Prince sounds too) and a lot of synths came and went and still this CS1X does service here in the studio. The Yamaha's cs1x audio spectrum falls well into the mix for production, there are many synths that have to fat sounds (you dont need pads in 49-19500 hz) and suppress other instruments in the mix. So for a fast dance production I quickly grab the cs1x, my Yamaha SY and Waldorf STVC. When I use a bass for fusion or jazz, NordLead. When I play live light music, I use a Roland Uno DS
Clever approach!
You laugh at the CS1x now, but back in 1997 this thing was da bomb! (Yeah I owned one for a few years, it was pretty boring but was an all rounder type instrument).
Ok I admit to bobbing my head during the arpeggiator part!!!
Thanks! They were EVERYWHERE in the early zero years and I was not exactly a fan;)