Vangelis’s favorite synth could be making a comeback.
Yamaha may be planning to bring back its classic CS-80 synthesizer, if a recent forum post is anything to go by.
As Synthtopia reports, in a post on the YamahaSynth IdeaScale forum, Yamaha R&D Planning Manager Ben Israel asked fans what they might like to see from a new CS-80, specifically whether users would want “a vintage reissue or a modern evolution”.
“We would like to understand your analog synthesizer requests a bit more clearly,” Israel wrote, though he stopped short of confirming that a new CS-80 was in active development. “Please note we move in a very deliberate manner; this is just an initial focusing of the Ideas offered so far and not a commitment to build a product.”
https://www.factmag.com/2019/05/01/yamaha-cs-80-synthesizer-reissue/