Yamaha CS-80

The Yamaha CS-80 is an analog synthesizer released in 1977. It came with a with velocity & pressure-sensitive keyboard, 8-voice polyphony and pitch-bending features.

Tony Banks' Yamaha CS-80
The Yamaha CS-80 was mainly one of Tony Banks' studio keyboards in the late 70s & early 80s. He had used it to record the A Curious Feeling (1979, solo), Duke and Abacab.

"I didn’t really get on with the CS80 I have to say. I liked some of the sounds but I didn’t find it… I was much more into the Prophets really so I just sort of used it for 'Duke’s Travels' extensively and it had a little feature on it too where you could use a microphone to play the sound which we used on Turn it On Again… oh Phil had a duck.. A trumpet or it may just have been a duck call that he used to trigger the sample to trigger the CS80 to get the sound. I used it a fair bit on the album actually but I didn’t feel the need to do it live and so I didn’t and it fell by the wayside. I sold one and I know some people really love that instrument. I kept some of these things for old time’s sake."

Sources:
 * Tony Banks TWR interview 2015
 * Genesis Information Magazine 1983 (reprint of old interview from 1979)
 * Keyboard, November 1984

Peter Gabriel's Yamaha CS-80
Peter Gabriel played a Yamaha CS-80 on the So record, having previously used it a little bit on his first album.

"There's one synth that I'd used a little bit on my first album, but which Daniel Lanois re-introduced me to, and that is the Yamaha CS80. It has a great breathiness to it — human breath and its musical uses have always fascinated me — and a kind of organic character which I like."

Sources:
 * Electronics & Music Maker, June 1986