The CS-30, without any doubt, is of one the most exciting monosynths that have ever been produced. Why? Imagine an instrument with three envelopes, two 3-mode filters, two oscillators, a voltage controlled LFO and a sequencer that can play anything from 1-8 steps. Please believe us that sequences in 7 are excellent fun!

The dark side of the “30” is that it’s initially quite difficult to use. But after a few days of head scratching the owner will surely find himself in analogue heaven.

The CS-30 offered here received an in-depth overhaul which is a very painstaking process with so many pots, sliders and switches, not to mention recap and deep cleaning. It was also calibrated to factory specification.

What’s more, it’s been equipped with a non destructive mod that allows to use external trigger to synchronize onboard sequencer.

PRICE:

3259 EUR (2650 EUR plus 23% VAT).

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: What are the CS-30’s strengths? Won’t it be to difficult for me?

A: Let’s start with strengths. I’d say that what make the 30 unique and (specification-wise) better than other, advanced monosynths are two filters and sequencer.

It is hard to program? It may be difficult in the beginning, that’s true. But there is also one synthesizer that’s initially very difficult to fully understand and noone seems to be too worried about it. It’s the ARP Odyssey. You simply have to spend some time with the manual to grasp the most confusing bits.

Q: Does the MIDI kit allow to sync sequencer to MIDI clock? How about filter control? 

A: That’s a “yes” on both! Sequencer is now MIDI-syncable and you can have *separate* MIDI CC messages control cutoff of separate filters.