🙋🏻‍♂️ Welcome and foreword

Hello dear musician friend and welcome to my Reverb Shop! I am glad that you are interested in this article. Be sure that each of the instruments offered is in very good and tested condition. Everything comes from my private collection and is treated with a lot of love and passion.

I am aware that I am one of the higher-priced providers, but I really try very hard to present the devices very transparently and also to make you, the buyer, happy. The packaging of an item takes me between 2-4 hours because I double and triple secure everything to ensure carefree transport. The quality of the instruments and my work is my number one priority! I am always available if you have any questions. I hope you enjoy reading the description.

🎹Information about the item for sale

I am selling a legend among the Synthesizers. The Yamaha CS50, is in a very good condition and can be used immediately. Full checked and full working.. it is really a very well-preserved device! Potentiometer and contacts have been cleaned. It has been extensively tested and everything works perfectly! It comes with the original hardcase..

⚙️Specs

he CS-50 was released just ahead of its famous big brothers, the CS-60 and CS-80. The CS-50 looks like a scaled-down version of the monstrous CS-80, and it is! This will benefit those who crave the famous classic Yamaha synth sound without the struggle of lugging around the 215 pound CS-80! The CS-50 weighs in at about 100 pounds. The CS-50 is also just 4-voice polyphonic, and lacks the quality weighted 61-note keyboard of the CS-80. The CS-50 has just a 49-note standard keyboard. It does feature pressure (aftertouch) sensitivity route-able to several destinations, however.

The CS-50's sound is unmistakably related to other classic CS-series synthesizers. At just four voices with one osc. per voice and lacking warm filters (at just 12dB/oct) the CS-50's sound can be thin. There are 13 preset sounds of various instruments and synth sounds but, unfortunately, no on-board memory storage for your edited presets. At its low street price, the CS-50 makes a great way to get your hands on these classic sounds without going broke! It's too bad their tuning is just as unstable as the other CS-series synths. It's housed in a built-in travel-case like the other (big) CS-synths. It's been used by Men Without Hats and Herbie Hancock.

Originally released in 1976, Yamaha's 46kg CS-50 wasn't largely appreciated after the release of its bigger brothers CS's 60 and 80 in '77. Adding to its unpopularity could also have been the introduction to the public of Yamahas own brand of strangeness in its implementation of proprietary terminology and control. After all this and 24 years, the CS-50 would be hard to reproduce for anything nearly as cheap as you'll find one for second-hand, so rather than contemplate its past failings, get your head around some of its rich leads and solid, animated basses. It's also good for experimental sounds with resonant (12db sounding) HP and LP filters. Also adding to the expressive power of this design was a pressure sensitive keyboard, with variable destinations and amounts. Seemingly only one oscillator per voice, only 4-voices and no Unison mode might be a tall hurdle to clear to bring this synth to redemption, but it has guts and in the end thats all that matters to the analog anorak.

Comments About the Sounds:
Warm when called for, or very thin and minute with its filtering engaged, the CS-50 has a distinctive Yamaha sound to it that can be identified when heard. While the presets aren't really very close to sounding as described, they are interesting in their own right and help to make up for the lack of a programmable memory on-board. Not being of a 'standard' design plan, the CS's in general were capable of creating a fairly unique sound space worth the time spent keeping them in tune.

I would really appreciate it if you read everything :) More information about buying from SynthFreak!Take a look at my other offers, if you buy several devices, a much better price is feasible :)

📹 Video before & after the purchase

Any interested party will be happy to receive a video of the instrument on request. Pictures say more than 1000 words but a video probably even more! So that you can get a better picture of the device on offer, I offer all my interested parties a video of the device. Every buyer also gets a video of a detailed check UP before shipping. So you can look forward to your device even before it is shipped and received and you already have a first glimpse of your new instrument. If I notice during the check that something is not working properly, the device is immediately handed over to my technician for repair.

💲Prices

It is very important to me that my devices come into good hands! If you can't spend that much money right now, due to the current economic situation regarding the pandem.. In all of my offers, I offer the option to send me a price proposal. If you are really interested, just send me an offer, if this is possible, I will of course accept your price proposal.

⚠️INFORMATION

All my synthesizers and keyboards come from my private collection, which is constantly updated. All devices are thoroughly cleaned, disinfected and tested! Every device that is for sale is taken from my collection and already wrapped in foil to avoid dust deposits and other soiling.

📦SECURE PACKAGING

It is very important to me that you as a customer are satisfied, and that your ordered instrument is intact and in top condition arrives at you. I attach great importance to safe packaging because you never know how the parcel delivery service will handle the parcel. For this reason, I pack every instrument in a very safe way so that everything arrives undamaged and we are both satisfied. Take a look at my "SECURE PACKAGING" now! Every instrument is packed exactly this way, you can find pictures in the picture gallery.

💢Shipping during pandem.

Due to the pandem. it has become much more difficult and expensive to send parcels abroad! Since the pandem. measures change regularly, I always look for the best, fastest and safest shipping service for you so that you receive your instrument on time. With me you can be sure that you will receive your package even during the cov. pandem.

⚡Power and connection

My instruments come from the EU, so the power cable is also equipped with an EU plug. If you live in a non-EU country, it is possible to use different adapters for the power connection. It is also often possible to set the transformer to the voltage of your country, or you simply use a current transformer which is often offered on the Internet for 30-50 €.

✅ Animal-free and non-smoking household💯Your advantages:

✅ Worldwide insured shipping

✅ All necessary export papers for foreign countries

✅ Fast processing

✅ Tested & cleaned devices

✅ Secure payment

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