Notable users of the GX-1 and tracks featuring it included Keith Emerson ("Fanfare for the Common Man"), Stevie Wonder ("Village Ghetto Land"), ABBA ("Lay All Your Love on Me"), and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin ("All My Love").įour years later, in 1977, the more programmable CS-80 synthesizer was released. Only a handful of these instruments survive today. As a result of its immense size, weight, and price tag, The Dream Machine, as it was known, was available only to the most well-heeled professional musicians. It was produced in extremely limited numbers (estimated at around 20) and cost $50,000. Featuring groundbreaking advances in polyphony, velocity and aftertouch sensitivity, along with four ranks of incredible sound quality, the GX-1 was a quantum leap forward from its contemporaries. In 1973, the most technologically advanced polyphonic synthesizer ever conceived was released. Cherry Audio's GX-80 is an unprecedented gateway to the sounds and music of an unrealized future. GX-80 is more than a best-of-both-worlds interpretation of the past, and far more than a replicant. For ultimate flexibility and expressive performance, GX-80 provides a split keyboard mode and a clever option to simulate polyphonic aftertouch with a monophonic aftertouch controller. What’s more, the GX-80 comes pre-loaded with over 1,000 expertly designed presets and equipped with studio-grade effects, meaning jaw-dropping sounds are no more than a few clicks away. The instrument is capable of sounding two different CS-80 style sounds simultaneously, while panning each rank independently, to produce exquisitely rich stereo timbres and complex, layered sounds. GX-80 boasts an impressive, dual-layer voicing architecture outfitted with 16 polyphonic voices per layer. Most notably, GX-80 includes an expert reproduction of the legendary GX-1 filter, delivering exquisite timbres that even the mighty CS-80 cannot produce. The GX-1's unique highpassed resonant pulse and bandpassed sawtooth waves, octave-up triangle wave, and filter envelope inversion are incorporated, opening up a new universe of sonic experimentation. GX-80 adeptly integrates the GX-1's distinctive feature set into the CS-80 architecture most significantly, the massive dual-layer architecture that effectively made the GX-1 the equivalent of two CS-80s and then some. GX-80 is not just another CS-80 emulation.
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