The Yamaha CS-15 is a monophonic analog synthesizer produced by Yamaha from 1979 to 1982.^[4]

In the CS series, the CS-5, CS-10, CS-30 and CS-30L were similar in sound, structure and design. The CS-5 and CS-10 had a single oscillator and one multimode filter, whereas the CS-15, CS-30 and CS-30L each had two oscillators that could be routed in various ways through two multimode filters.^[5]

It features two voltage-controlled oscillators, two 12 dB/Oct multi-mode Voltage-controlled filter (Low-Pass, High-Pass or Band-Pass), two ADSR envelopes and a Low-Frequency Oscillator. It also features a White noise and an external-in for processing other sounds.^[6]

The CS-15 offers a great flexibility with various routing possibilities to the filters and envelopes. You can, for example, rout VCO 1 to both VCFs and the VCFs to any of the envelopes positive or negative voltage.

It's actually a duophonic / bitimbral synthesizer but you have to connect it two separate CV/Gate controls (Hz/V like Korg synthesizers not V/Oct) to play the extra voice.

The CS-15 was used by several bands in the early 1980s. The Human League made prominent use of the instrument on their album Dare.^[6] Marillion used a CS-15 on their first full-length album, Script for a Jester's Tear.^[7] Boyd Jarvis, a producer and early pioneer of house music, started out with a CS-15 as his first synthesizer.^[8][9]

• CS-60
• CS-80