The digital reverb used by Vangelis, the Lexicon 224-X, was released in 1978 and allowed sounds to decays for as much as 70 seconds Its eerie echoes and spacious synth noises were from the cutting ...

NAMM 2025: If you harbour even a passing interest in synth history, you'll know the CS-80: Yamaha's '70s classic is one of the most fabled instruments in music technology, an ambitious and ...

Like its weighty forebear, The Eighty is equipped with polyphonic aftertouch, but features additional effects that go beyond the original's versatile chorus with delay, phaser, reverb, ring mod and EQ ...