what's a Yamaha CS15 worth? (Page 1 of 2)

I'd say 550-600 USD.

nah, this enquiry is for a friend of mine who had it stored in a garage in australia. The roof collapsed, and according to the insurance company the CS15 is a total loss. Another friend in Melbourne will take a look at it, just to confirm the state of the synth. There was other stuff there, like a jupiter 4, nord, ms2000, but I havn't heard about those.

The last three CS15s that were advertised for sale on the Analogue Heaven list were for: 575 Euro, 550 Euro and then 500 Euro.

thanks for the tip... i normally don't browse the german internet much

yow, jeez, i guess they've gone up a lot in price. i would see them for 300-350 us dollars not that long ago...

The samplers will never go up again. The old mpc

samplers are going up

ppl ask me about ..and how to get ..

Casio samplers
Old Dynacord
Roland S 50,550
emax , emu II, sp12
Yamaha TX16W
Akai S900 s950
korg DSS1 DSM1

want lofi sound with filters  now when they are cheap
..like 303 in end of 80s

hhehee

There's been a hilariously ironic Ableton and softsynth backlash in the minimal techno community for awhile. Laptops are ok for sets so you don't have to do any work while you're out but your studio better be decked out with hardware.

Maybe that's what's driving up analog's price right now. It's cool to have the real deal again.

And as far as the digital stuff goes I guess people need something to touch. I ditched my DX7IIFD because I was more than happy with the emulations on my Oasys PCI and Ableton.

Possibilities are endless with what's out for computers now as far as pads, effects and acoustic simulations are concerned. But they're a boring pain so everyone just uses the presets. Hilarious.

I can't remember where I read it but some renowned techno egghead was sneering about Ableton being for "making trance" like somehow trance was the lowest form of music there is.

Some machines I've noticed rising fast are 707s, TG33s and Casio CZ synths.

Not all trance is bad:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3pkY_11kg[/youtube]

Ah, 1993 chewing my lips off in a sweaty basement.

No, not at all. 

It is a very capable and extremely flexible MIDI sequencer.  It is my MIDI sequencer of choice for my hardware synths (and that's after years and years of using Cubase).   

I can see how it might seem that way if you haven't spent any time with it.  It is SO much more than that.

That's absolutely a boring way to compose.  Anyone who uses Live this way is totally missing the point and might as well just stick with making prefabricated music in GarageBand.

For one, you are not restricted to just using loops.  You can write your music in a completely linear fashion on a timeline just like any other sequencer.  If you do use loops, you are not bound by fixed-length loops at all.  You can have one loop that is 4 bars long running alongside another loop that is 57 bars long running alongside another loop that is 3 bars and 14 steps long running alongside... 

The best thing about Live for me is how much it aides the composition process.  If you want to work in a pattern-based fashion like with a hardware sequencer, it will do that.  If you want to work in a linear fashion like you're recording to tape, it'll do that too.  If you want to bounce back and forth between these two working methods, no problem.  It is so flexible in this regard that Cubase and Logic seem like outdated junk.