Which synths of the time contemporary to the CS80 used "many" layers, though? The CS80 was actually kind of unique in that instead of the more typically 1-3 oscillators going into 1 filter and EGs etc, it was actually a layer of two complete independent synth voices. Yes, a few years later the JP8 came along which could layer two different sounds, but even that was not common. The JX10 in the mid 80s was two JX8Ps so that could do it, and of course the digital stuff starting with the upper tier DXs until more voices and multi-timbrality became common place."layers upon layers" is typically not the same as "2 layers" or even "3 layers". I think they were referring to synths that use "many" layers.
Unless they are comparing to modern synths or complex softsynths, which seems a weird comparison too - those are somewhat different.
Yeah, I wasn't really intending on nitpicking, I just thought it was particularly clumsy in this case, as this was more of less the only synth of it's time to be able to layer in the first place, and part of the reason it sounded big in mixes is precisely *because* it could run two completely different sounds as a layer.I dont think important to nit pick it. YMWV
I find most of the Yamaha analogs of this period fairly thin and relatively uninspiring sounding, personally, and for me I've never been a CS80 fan - even less so as it seems the only thing everyone wants to do is ape Vangelis tracks
- so I'm not particularly interested in this one, other than the feedback of how good it sounds and how accurate it is, especially as their marketing angle is "Everyone else that's done the CS80 previously did it badly, but we've done it right"...Still, doing one of these from scratch must be a pretty significant undertaking, for sure, so props to Xils on taking that on.
Statistics: Posted by beely — Sun Dec 29, 2024 7:20 pm