Take total control of your sound with Yamaha's new CS6x Control Synthesizer. Billed by the company as its next generation dance machine, the CS6x ($1795 list) is a 64-note polyphonic, 61-key synthesizer that is loaded with hundreds of high quality voices designed especially for today's cutting edge music styles: Funky leads to "phat" basses and even standard voices are included to cover every possible need.

To truly explore your creative potential, the CS6x is jam packed with 14 sound control knobs, five assignable knobs, two programmable scene buttons, a ribbon controller, pitch and mod wheels in short, everything you need to shape the sounds exactly the way you want. The CS6x also puts a new twist on the sampling concept with the use of what Yamaha calls "Phrase Clips." A Phrase Clip is a short recording; it can be a breakbeat or a loop of any kind or even a single shot percussion sound. Once a phrase is sampled, the CS6x allows you to create new sample variations by using the Loop Remix / Divide function. Up to 256 Phrase Clips can be stored into the 4MB of onboard memory. These samples can then be assembled into Clip Kits, which will allow you to trigger the phrases from the keyboard. Samples can be imported as WAV or AIFF files, or do-it-yourselfers can sample them right into the CS6x.

Another great feature of the CS6x is the A/D Input. This input will allow you to plug in an external source such as a microphone, CD player, or even another synthesizer into the CS6x and process the signal with the huge selection of onboard digital effects. Even many top-of-the-line synths don't include this feature.

Once you're ready to play a gig, there's no need to take along an external sequencer. The CS6x sports a built-in SMF playback sequencer. Just plug your home
computer into the CS6x's "TO HOST" connector and it's a breeze to drag and drop sequences from any sequencer right onto a Smart Media card. Leave that computer at home where it belongs and take a SmartMedia card and the CS6x to the gig.

To top off this exciting machine, it's fully expandable using Yamaha's Modular Synthesis Plug-in system. Unlike conventional expansion boards, which only give you extra PCM samples, these expansion boards add a complete synthesizer engine to the CS6x! You get more sounds, more polyphony, and more effects. Two expansion slots are provided so you can decide what type of synthesis power you need.

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