The Ultimate SynthDB | Yamaha CS10

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Description	The CS-10 makes a great electronic, dance and trance musical instrument because it is analog, monophonic, has a really cool filter and is capable of warm bubbly analog bass and lead sounds. Its very simple design and layout with plenty of knobs allows for instant gratification! It has one oscillator and a switchable low-pass, band-pass or hi-pass resonant filter. The LFO can modulate the filter cutoff, volume, pitch and VCO. External audio can also be routed through the filter and there is portamento that stretches for one octave. Although MIDI-less, the CS-10 does have CV / Gate which can be converted to MIDI using a proper interface, so the CS-10 works quite well both in the studio or for live performance. If you're into techno, dance or electronica then consider the CS-10 an inexpensive but worthy alternative to other more popular mono-synths.
Brand	Yamaha
Model	CS10
Device	Synth
Type	Keys
Engine Type	Analog
Engine	VCO
Voices (max)	1
Oscillators	1
LFO	1 LFO (sine or sawtooth with rate speed)
Noise	Y
Engine Detailed	1 VCO + white noise (sawtooth, variable PW)
Filter (VCF)	1 multi-mode VCF
Envelope (VCA)	2 ADSR
Keys	37
Key type	Keys
Velocity	N
Aftertouch	N
Audio	External Audio in
CV-gate	CV/Gate
Produced:	1977 - 1977

Legend:		Obvious	Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO	Voltage Controlled Oscillator	DCO	Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO	Low Frequency Oscillator	Sub	Sub Oscillator
VCF	Voltage Controlled Filter	VCA	Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity	As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key.	Aftertouch	Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

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