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The Yamaha CS-80 was an analog polyphonic synthesizer (first marketed in 1977) that represented a milestone in the history of sound synthesis. It sported true 8-voice polyphony (with two independent synthesizer layers per voice) as well as a primitive (sound) settings memory based on a bank of micropotentiometers (rather than the digital programmable presets the Prophet-5 would sport soon after), and pioneering performer expression features, such as a splittable keyboard that was both velocity-sensitive (like a piano's) and pressure-sensitive ("after-touch"), and a ribbon controller allowing for spectacular polyphonic pitch-bends and glissandos. It perhaps represented the limit of what was possible with strictly analog technology.

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