An absolutely beautiful instrument, and one of the rarest. Vangelis always poured emotion into his music, and as soon as you hear the model CS80, the only name that comes up is Vangelis. Bladerunner became my favourite movie because of the atmosphere. The soundtrack, along with the visuals and brilliant acting make it untouchable.
The CS-80 just sounds SOOOO lush and magical. It really is the greatest synth of all times. There are other synths that are amazing, but the way the CS-80 used the polyphonic aftertouch to control the filter, gave it such an amazing expressiveness. True greatness. Of course, the performer also makes a big difference, as Vangelis truly could make this instrument sing like the voice of an angel. And I'm not even religious 🤣
What an incredible amazing synthesizer and the greatest synthesizer ever made. Used to make incredible music by one of the greatest musicians of all time. RIP Vangelis, you absolute legend.
Vangelis changed my life and makes me emotional every time I hear him. Direct, emotive and genuine in every note. I love this video and honestly would watch it if it was hours longer! Cheers!
Dear Jose, thanks so much for doing the video about the Vangelis' sound on CS-80, no one ever made such a detailed how-to video on RUclips. Have a great weekend!
to the unknown man, one of my all time favorite tracks, and remains so all these years later... it was so interesting to watch you recreate how Vangelis made it and the other tracks you played
Really enjoyed this, thanks for taking the time to put it together. It's incredible how different the real CS80 sounds compared to the many VST emulations. I have both the ME80 and CS80V, both of which are great sounding synths but they don't quite hit the spot compared to the real thing. Cheers!
How about the AN1x virtual analog synth? I bought a used one eight years ago for around $250. I call it my "Blade Runner machine. Thank god I bought it then, because now the prices are well over a grand. It actually has a preset called "Vangelis", but that patch doesn't sound anything like these sounds. But it sounds pretty damn good.
RIP Vangelis. We wil never forget what a great musician he was. Back than in Aphrodite’s Child as with Jon Anderson as well as his solo albums. My favorites are 666, Heaven and Hell, Spiral.
Great channel, great video, doesn't try to sell nothing, knows how to play, the sound is great and the camera work is fabulous. Looking forward for more videos. Thank you.
Vangelis + Anderson is magic. Learned so much from my dads Vangelis (and others like Kitaro, Pink Floyd, Mostly Autumn, Marillion, and many more) collection. Glad we could see a rerun of Blade Runner together back in 2019. Just one year before he passed. Man that soundtrack needs to be heard in a Dolby theater.
Fantastic. Brilliant insight and for this 66 year old lover of all things prog and electronic, those sounds brought the memories flooding back. Thank you 👏👏👏
For me it all started with the sound of Pink Floyd - that got me into synths and keys. Actually I love my Rhodes, Wurli and CP70 as much as I love my synths
I LOVE This. Thank you for creating this video. I"m old now but in 1980 as a college student I would go into my local music store in Albany NY just to sit and play and dream about owning this instrument. I never did get to own one but wow it was fun seeing what you did in this video. Thank you
Every time I hear Vangelis' sound and harmony, my whole being goes into another dimension. And so for more than 40 years... Great job Jose. Thank you dude. Subscribe... ❤
Great video. Always nice to see great composers also using presents, it just shows that a lot of the times it's the inspiration to how to use them, what to combine them with, that is the most important in creating a great song. One pointer though, it's pronounced "vang-GHEL-iss", I would really hoped for people, especially musicians, would put a bit of effort in making sure they know how the names of the artists they admire are pronounced. It just shows good musical culture. All the best!
I wouldn't add the 'extra brass' in the end.. instead use one of the two starters, they don't seem to differ that much. Simply beautiful demonstration though! It's truly a timeless instrument. Thanks for the video.
A great composer, sadly missed, and a beautiful instrument. Personally my greatest moment of "wow, I never knew that was a CS80" was when I found out they used one for the opening sound effect on the new Doctor Who theme in the 1980s (it was the ring modulator).
Evanghelis Odysseas Papathanassiou (if that is correct?)... That beautiful human being. He entered my heart, my soul...my everything. I love him forever! R.I.P.
@@josesvintagekeys Than we are both lucky victims❤ I looked it up: Evanghelos Odysseas Papathanasiou should be the right pronunciation/with such a name all is good...whatever you do in life!
Fantastic composer he was. Taken me back to the 70s managing a record store. Inspiring. Beautiful having all those controls at hand. Nicer than my experience with the DX7. Thanks.
No one Vangelis instrumental went throw me like Bounty intro theme ! With music , he explained every situation at the story for sure hard , with out of exit .
It's great to see someone who loves these sounds as much as I do. For To the Unknown Man, try Guitar 1 up one octave and blend to taste. That's how I've gotten that sound on my Hydrasynth and Peak.
To my ear, no other synth generates sounds of such clarity and purity and harmonically thick richness than the CS80. What magical components did Yamaha use back in 1976??? (Great video, btw! Subscribed!)
I'm a dumb guitar player and Vangelis is my hero. I heard he had his CS80 shipped from Japan and put on a train across Russia to London. The man was a one of a kind #genius
@@josesvintagekeys haha, I heard Jon Anderson tell a story that Vangelis had jammed with the YES guys potentially to join the band perhaps, and he proceeded to tell Steve Howe that the guitar wasn't a real instrument 😂 no wonder he did most of his work solo 😅 Guitar is only heard on a few of his tracks like Petite Fille de la Mer. Nicely played in the video. Did he play all the tracks live in that era do you know? As in, he didn't overdub and everything was recorded as 1 take or a mix of takes but he played all the instruments live ? There's a great recent documentary about him on YT with the Director of Chariots of Fire in the studio where he has around 17 foot pedals to blend the sounds live, it's crazy though he's playing his more recent symphonic stuff which I personally wasn't a fan of but incredible to watch. More Vangelis please you do it so well. I spotted the CS80 in the Barbie video for "I'm Just Ken" along with flash and EVHs son, I swear it had to be the video Director paying homage 🌈 RIP Vangelis
Amazing. I love Vangelis. He made so much for the ancient greek-latin culture from the Mediterranean. He was kind of a greek god come to Earth to show us how beautiful must sound the sounds of the Divine. He was constantly under inspiration of, who knows... some greek gods up there?
Thanks for this! Subscribed. Just got the Arturia CS80V - I loved your post where you compared the plugin to the real CS80 . ***any chance you can do a video where you recreate these sounds on the CS80V?*** (showing the settings for each as you did in the video with the quiz) Keep up the good work and thank you!
Spiral is my joint favourite Vangelis album along with Albedo 0.39 depending on my mood. It's a pity he didn't do more albums like Albedo. My favourite track though is Dervish D - I love playing it on sax or my Roland AE-30 wind synth.
@@josesvintagekeys no, not yet. I do have a full backing track but it's in Cubase on my Atari ST. I must make some time to put my MIDI setup back together and get all those old songs converted to audio! 😀
Closest I will ever get to a CS 80 is my Arminator 2 VST. I will try to do the same what you have done here. Bravo. Beautiful sounds. I remember seeing Blade Runner in theater for first time and the music was spellbinding. The only thing comparable today is Hans Zimmer Dune.
THE CITY WAS MY FAVORITE ALBUM HE COMPOSED IN A HOTEL IN ROME ...HE USED AN AMAZING DISTORTION GUITAR FROM THE KORG T1 ON THE TRACK NERVE CENTRE ...IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER
I didn't know that the ribbon controller was used to make all these pitch falls in Vangelis music. Thank you for that last trick. Interresting. Now I shall have to go buy a ribbon controller or something like that...
9:25 - I remember having tried to recreate the famous Vangelian slow-attack brass sound back in 1986 on my Commodore 64 with its three SID oscillators... IIRC I chose the sawtooth wave, with the lowest voice part having the slow attack while the intermediate and high voices using a faster attack. Yes, I'm a Vangelis fan since my teenage days... and therefore I ask you whether I may sample a few notes from your video...
Thank you for this video... from what we know, back then in the Nemo years, Vangelis music produced by multiple overdubs, even for the simplest lines. So, in my opinion, the final sounds that we hear in his albums may constructed by multiple slightly different presets to give the sound a bigger presence...
See your JP-8 in the Background.. had a time to played it in 1982 from a stdio guy in Munic´s Union Studios..but cant afford as well as the ppg´s or CS80.. then got a JP-4 which I loved ..
Apart from the real purpose of the video which is the music, I couldn’t let notice how preserved this unit is like if the CS80s were still being made by Yamaha today
The Blade Runner theme that you played sounds really good but we can’t tell if you hit on the exact preset without listening to it along side the original track. Good job. Sounds great!👍
2 ways. In a full production (like Bounty) I stack different synths: Jx10, Jup8, JD999, RS505. In a demo I make my live easy and use the Vangelis sounds from Onmisphere. They sound incredible!
Reverb comes from Universal Audio Lexicon 224 - which can now run 'native' (you don't need the UA anymore) - and I think they still have some Black Friday deals
Ohhhhhh WOW!! Subbed now.
the invitation stands; but after the interview I understand why you are so busy :-)#losangelesheredrmixcomes
I'm a simple man. I see a CS80, especially regarding Vangelis... I click. I subscribe.
It's great to meet fellow simple man ;-)
An absolutely beautiful instrument, and one of the rarest. Vangelis always poured emotion into his music, and as soon as you hear the model CS80, the only name that comes up is Vangelis.
Bladerunner became my favourite movie because of the atmosphere. The soundtrack, along with the visuals and brilliant acting make it untouchable.
The CS-80 just sounds SOOOO lush and magical. It really is the greatest synth of all times. There are other synths that are amazing, but the way the CS-80 used the polyphonic aftertouch to control the filter, gave it such an amazing expressiveness. True greatness. Of course, the performer also makes a big difference, as Vangelis truly could make this instrument sing like the voice of an angel. And I'm not even religious 🤣
Vangelis was out of this world…I feel very humble
Great presentation- even Vangelis would have been pleased to hear this
I certainly hope so!
What an incredible amazing synthesizer and the greatest synthesizer ever made. Used to make incredible music by one of the greatest musicians of all time. RIP Vangelis, you absolute legend.
Vangelis and a CS80 - it doesnt get any better!
@@josesvintagekeys Exactly mate! Exactly!
Vangelis was the Greatest Composer and he will stay that way forever.
Vangelis changed my life and makes me emotional every time I hear him. Direct, emotive and genuine in every note. I love this video and honestly would watch it if it was hours longer! Cheers!
sounds amazing!!
I only have to work on my presence - than again blue is my colour ;-)
great job... Vangelis was a genius. I still hear I hear you now playing forever
Brass 1&2, resonance zero, and most important general filter to minimum, then modulation with aftertouch . And Lexicon 224 reverb.
Dear Jose, thanks so much for doing the video about the Vangelis' sound on CS-80, no one ever made such a detailed how-to video on RUclips. Have a great weekend!
A great weeked to you as well!
to the unknown man, one of my all time favorite tracks, and remains so all these years later... it was so interesting to watch you recreate how Vangelis made it and the other tracks you played
Really enjoyed this, thanks for taking the time to put it together. It's incredible how different the real CS80 sounds compared to the many VST emulations. I have both the ME80 and CS80V, both of which are great sounding synths but they don't quite hit the spot compared to the real thing. Cheers!
How about the AN1x virtual analog synth? I bought a used one eight years ago for around $250. I call it my "Blade Runner machine. Thank god I bought it then, because now the prices are well over a grand. It actually has a preset called "Vangelis", but that patch doesn't sound anything like these sounds. But it sounds pretty damn good.
That Blade Runner theme, what a soundscape…
Vangelis was a true master. His synths always sound organic. His albums Spiral and Albedo 0.39 haven't dated in the slightest.
Great to hear these iconic sounds reproduced and played so well! Big congrats Jose 👍👍👍. RIP Vangelis
Excellent breakdown of the signature Vangelis sound!
Anything Vangelis emidiately gets my attention. Great video sir
Txxs toyota tech!
RIP Vangelis. We wil never forget what a great musician he was. Back than in Aphrodite’s Child as with Jon Anderson as well as his solo albums. My favorites are 666, Heaven and Hell, Spiral.
Noooooo I did not know he died, where was all the coverage on TV! Bloody media. If it was a crappy politition it would be all over the place.
he died? it can't be true
Sadly so@@Galova
Thanks, Jose, for the really great job. I Know, how difficult it is, to rebuild a sound on a vintage synth, but you matched it. :-) Great!!!
Very accurate analysis and considerations, emotions included. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge
All Three songs are some of my most favourite Vangelis songs. You sir play beautifully, and hearing them again, gave me chills! Thank you!
Very nice, what a superb synthesizer collection you have!
Great channel, great video, doesn't try to sell nothing, knows how to play, the sound is great and the camera work is fabulous.
Looking forward for more videos.
Thank you.
Great homage to an iconic synth and a musical genius
What a sublime video. Enjoyed it immensely. Thank you Jose.
@@philipmulville8218 Txxs Philip. Glad uou enjoyed it
@@philipmulville8218 Glad you enjoyed it!
So beautiful (I can't move from my chair)... Thank you very much!!!
Excellent work recreating these sounds...iconic
Vangelis + Anderson is magic.
Learned so much from my dads Vangelis (and others like Kitaro, Pink Floyd, Mostly Autumn, Marillion, and many more) collection.
Glad we could see a rerun of Blade Runner together back in 2019. Just one year before he passed.
Man that soundtrack needs to be heard in a Dolby theater.
Fantastic. Brilliant insight and for this 66 year old lover of all things prog and electronic, those sounds brought the memories flooding back. Thank you 👏👏👏
For me it all started with the sound of Pink Floyd - that got me into synths and keys. Actually I love my Rhodes, Wurli and CP70 as much as I love my synths
One of the greatest artist of the 20th century with the extraordinary sound of the CS80 ... thank you, Jose 👍
I LOVE This. Thank you for creating this video. I"m old now but in 1980 as a college student I would go into my local music store in Albany NY just to sit and play and dream about owning this instrument. I never did get to own one but wow it was fun seeing what you did in this video. Thank you
Every time I hear Vangelis' sound and harmony, my whole being goes into another dimension. And so for more than 40 years... Great job Jose. Thank you dude. Subscribe... ❤
We share the feeling Oliver
Very nice! Great sounds.
You made me feel so happy with those songs. I was taken from the sunny Miami to the French Riviera... laid under the sun.
I bought Soil Festivities in 1992 and it's been my go to relaxation album ever since - timeless, simple and yet so complex
Excellent video! I think this will become a very popular video, and I hope you continue to make more like this.
Well,next to the real thing, you are the master of getting the Vangelis sound on your Prophet!
What a great sound!
Very nice!!!! I always wanted to know about how that amazing sounds was conceived. Thaks for posting, José.
Absolutely fantastic! Great performance!
Great Video thanks so much for doing this - I have already started playing all my old Vangelis albums - Cheers pj
You’ll have a great time!
Great video. Always nice to see great composers also using presents, it just shows that a lot of the times it's the inspiration to how to use them, what to combine them with, that is the most important in creating a great song. One pointer though, it's pronounced "vang-GHEL-iss", I would really hoped for people, especially musicians, would put a bit of effort in making sure they know how the names of the artists they admire are pronounced. It just shows good musical culture. All the best!
What a wonderful sounding machine.
it is!
Thank you very much, great job. What an amazing and iconic instrument!
WoW, It sounds Big & glorious! Congrats!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!
WOW! chills down my spine.
Really enjoyed that, thanks.
I wouldn't add the 'extra brass' in the end.. instead use one of the two starters, they don't seem to differ that much. Simply beautiful demonstration though! It's truly a timeless instrument. Thanks for the video.
A great composer, sadly missed, and a beautiful instrument. Personally my greatest moment of "wow, I never knew that was a CS80" was when I found out they used one for the opening sound effect on the new Doctor Who theme in the 1980s (it was the ring modulator).
yep, amongst the most iconic uses of the instrument: Ringmod voor Dr. Who - but also the bassline was played on the CS
you will njoy the quiz I have just uploaded :-)
💚Bravo !! Magnifique !
absolute Great
Evanghelis Odysseas Papathanassiou (if that is correct?)... That beautiful human being. He entered my heart, my soul...my everything. I love him forever! R.I.P.
mine too!
@@josesvintagekeys Than we are both lucky victims❤ I looked it up: Evanghelos Odysseas Papathanasiou should be the right pronunciation/with such a name all is good...whatever you do in life!
Fantastic composer he was. Taken me back to the 70s managing a record store. Inspiring. Beautiful having all those controls at hand. Nicer than my experience with the DX7. Thanks.
How beautifull layering sounds!!!❤
How dammn good it does sound! The CS-80 is amazing.
I would love to see more of these video studies, and I hope someday you make a video about Vangelis' masterpiece "Reve" from Opera Sauvage.
All of Opera Sauvage is a masterpiece.
No one Vangelis instrumental went throw me like Bounty intro theme ! With music , he explained every situation at the story for sure hard , with out of exit .
thanks very much for uploading
I'll always watch Vangelis content
Inspiring!!
8:00 - I think the programmed patch you made was spot on
It's great to see someone who loves these sounds as much as I do. For To the Unknown Man, try Guitar 1 up one octave and blend to taste. That's how I've gotten that sound on my Hydrasynth and Peak.
To my ear, no other synth generates sounds of such clarity and purity and harmonically thick richness than the CS80. What magical components did Yamaha use back in 1976??? (Great video, btw! Subscribed!)
Thanks for making this. Great to hear and see it.
thats very interesting for me to use my reface , the pictures in the studio are nice
Definitely Brass 1 and 2. The way it cuts through the background pad in unmistakable.
I'm a dumb guitar player and Vangelis is my hero. I heard he had his CS80 shipped from Japan and put on a train across Russia to London. The man was a one of a kind #genius
Nice story.BTW: guitarplayers are great!
@@josesvintagekeys haha, I heard Jon Anderson tell a story that Vangelis had jammed with the YES guys potentially to join the band perhaps, and he proceeded to tell Steve Howe that the guitar wasn't a real instrument 😂 no wonder he did most of his work solo 😅 Guitar is only heard on a few of his tracks like Petite Fille de la Mer. Nicely played in the video. Did he play all the tracks live in that era do you know? As in, he didn't overdub and everything was recorded as 1 take or a mix of takes but he played all the instruments live ?
There's a great recent documentary about him on YT with the Director of Chariots of Fire in the studio where he has around 17 foot pedals to blend the sounds live, it's crazy though he's playing his more recent symphonic stuff which I personally wasn't a fan of but incredible to watch. More Vangelis please you do it so well. I spotted the CS80 in the Barbie video for "I'm Just Ken" along with flash and EVHs son, I swear it had to be the video Director paying homage 🌈 RIP Vangelis
Amazing synth
Sprial's title track is wickedly good.... The arpeggio intro sounds like it's from another planet
I think that arpeggio was done on a Roland system 100
I loved his work with Jon Anderson. Arturia made a lovely CS-80 emulation.
fully agree! It is still my favorite work by him
Amazing. I love Vangelis. He made so much for the ancient greek-latin culture from the Mediterranean. He was kind of a greek god come to Earth to show us how beautiful must sound the sounds of the Divine. He was constantly under inspiration of, who knows... some greek gods up there?
Thanks for this! Subscribed. Just got the Arturia CS80V - I loved your post where you compared the plugin to the real CS80 . ***any chance you can do a video where you recreate these sounds on the CS80V?*** (showing the settings for each as you did in the video with the quiz) Keep up the good work and thank you!
You did really well there Sir. Keep them coming. I wonder what Vangelis would have done with the Seaboard Rise 2, with its 5d expression.
Very cool
Spiral is my joint favourite Vangelis album along with Albedo 0.39 depending on my mood. It's a pity he didn't do more albums like Albedo. My favourite track though is Dervish D - I love playing it on sax or my Roland AE-30 wind synth.
Have you shared it on YT?
@@josesvintagekeys no, not yet. I do have a full backing track but it's in Cubase on my Atari ST. I must make some time to put my MIDI setup back together and get all those old songs converted to audio! 😀
love Vangelis!
Interesting vivid sound...
Closest I will ever get to a CS 80 is my Arminator 2 VST. I will try to do the same what you have done here. Bravo. Beautiful sounds. I remember seeing Blade Runner in theater for first time and the music was spellbinding. The only thing comparable today is Hans Zimmer Dune.
THE CITY WAS MY FAVORITE ALBUM HE COMPOSED IN A HOTEL IN ROME ...HE USED AN AMAZING DISTORTION GUITAR FROM THE KORG T1 ON THE TRACK NERVE CENTRE ...IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER
So cool. I love trying to do these sounds with the Arturia vst version of it.
Que sintetizador tan hermoso ❤ gracias por hacerme recordar la música Vangelis ❤
I didn't know that the ribbon controller was used to make all these pitch falls in Vangelis music. Thank you for that last trick. Interresting.
Now I shall have to go buy a ribbon controller or something like that...
9:25 - I remember having tried to recreate the famous Vangelian slow-attack brass sound back in 1986 on my Commodore 64 with its three SID oscillators... IIRC I chose the sawtooth wave, with the lowest voice part having the slow attack while the intermediate and high voices using a faster attack. Yes, I'm a Vangelis fan since my teenage days... and therefore I ask you whether I may sample a few notes from your video...
Great you like it and please feel free!
@@josesvintagekeys
On which machine did you do the "I Hear You Now" arpeggio?
Now playing: London Kid (Jean-Michel Jarre)
@@yadgar1969 on the Mini
Thank you for this video... from what we know, back then in the Nemo years, Vangelis music produced by multiple overdubs, even for the simplest lines. So, in my opinion, the final sounds that we hear in his albums may constructed by multiple slightly different presets to give the sound a bigger presence...
I think you are fully right!
Una joya tecnológica de la electrónica antigua! Pero aún vigente!
Very interesting thank you
great video would be awesome if you could explain the effect chain as well reverb, chorus, etc. and their combination.
no chorus, only lexicon 224 plug in and H delay by waves
Thank you for the quick reply, would it be possible for you to make a video about it how to setup the effect chain and the settings?
Txxs again for the question, I made a video about it :-) ruclips.net/video/746TSq0u4RQ/видео.html
You’re a lucky man to have a real CS!
I realise!
The China album was stunning. Still love it now 😊
Suscrito! gracias por tu video. Saludos desde Chile
See your JP-8 in the Background.. had a time to played it in 1982 from a stdio guy in Munic´s Union Studios..but cant afford as well as the ppg´s or CS80.. then got a JP-4 which I loved ..
Apart from the real purpose of the video which is the music, I couldn’t let notice how preserved this unit is like if the CS80s were still being made by Yamaha today
The Blade Runner theme that you played sounds really good but we can’t tell if you hit on the exact preset without listening to it along side the original track. Good job. Sounds great!👍
next i will add short clips of the original - if that is allowed vis a vis copyright laws
Very nice indeed.
I’ve just got the Luftrum Vangelis pack for Omnisphere. Its simply incredible :)
@@jokubrik6597 agree - I own that too - lovely!
Hey Jose
Ty for the Cs 80 Vangelis videos. Could you also explain how you make the pad sounds ?
Tyvm
Xbros
2 ways. In a full production (like Bounty) I stack different synths: Jx10, Jup8, JD999, RS505. In a demo I make my live easy and use the Vangelis sounds from Onmisphere. They sound incredible!
Wow❤️❤️❤️
Hi, in my opinion at the end is Brass 2. Nice video.
Jose, so well done!
May I asked what you used for your incredible reverb sound?
Reverb comes from Universal Audio Lexicon 224 - which can now run 'native' (you don't need the UA anymore) - and I think they still have some Black Friday deals