I had the pleasure of standing next to a real CS-80 keeping me warm for around 18 months when I was a little younger. Although it was quite old even then.
The Softube 77 really is quite accurate, as I remember it.
And the Softube Juno ( 84 ) is uncannily accurate.
One comment on here mentioned how bland the 77 is.
And to be honest, the real one really was - when it worked.
And it's quite remarkable that Vangelis managed to coax so much expression from it.
Many early synths were quite unremarkable.
I also had an old Jupiter 4. You could cook eggs on it. It had a really bad odour. And without a tape delay and an Ensemble-D - it was completely disappointing. However, I digress.
In my opinion, the GX-80 from Cherry Audio is a great compromise of sounding similar enough to the original ( much better to my ears ), with some really usable performance features and some very playable patches.
Both the 77 and the GX-80 are great CS-80's, but for completely different reasons.
The Softube 77 really is quite accurate, as I remember it.
And the Softube Juno ( 84 ) is uncannily accurate.
One comment on here mentioned how bland the 77 is.
And to be honest, the real one really was - when it worked.
And it's quite remarkable that Vangelis managed to coax so much expression from it.
Many early synths were quite unremarkable.
I also had an old Jupiter 4. You could cook eggs on it. It had a really bad odour. And without a tape delay and an Ensemble-D - it was completely disappointing. However, I digress.
In my opinion, the GX-80 from Cherry Audio is a great compromise of sounding similar enough to the original ( much better to my ears ), with some really usable performance features and some very playable patches.
Both the 77 and the GX-80 are great CS-80's, but for completely different reasons.
Statistics: Posted by David_Wise — Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:53 pm