What’s more Minako and company rounded out the project out with the CP, a classic take on the legendary stage pianos of the 1970s.
Incorporating sounds evocative of Vox, Hammond, Farfisa and Yamaha’s own organs, the YC is a retrophile’s delight, ideal for any seeker of the ’60s sound. Minako’s team also delivered an organ counterpart, the YC. (No small feat considering the original CS-80 weighed in at just under 200 kilograms.) In 2015 Yamaha released miniaturised versions of both the DX and CS series. I also kept reminding myself of the ‘wow’ feeling I had when I put a Reface design mock-up on my knees for the very first time.” “These never-ending doubts,” Shintake adds, “were overwhelming. Do we need to paint the surface of the reface twice or once? What material should be used for this knob? Can we take off internal speakers? Sometimes we wrote down all the parts used for Reface on the whiteboard and discussed which parts were needed or not for hours and hours on end.” “ Balancing every single aspect required a huge amount of concentration. “ It affected every step of the product development process, from sound engineering to product design ,” Minako recounts. You can play one a park bench.Īchieving this degree of portability, however, was no easy task. The Reface DX and CS models are battery-powered.
With these new models, a user doesn’t have venture into Vangelis’ lair or follow TOTO into a top of the line LA studio to recapture the magic of the 1980s’ iconic songs. “ We kept questioning ourselves ,” she shares, “’ How we can update the relationship between the musical instruments and musicians ?’ That question led to the concept ‘create your sound any place, any time. Minako herself was a member of the Reface team. We made prototypes and interviewed artists all over the world to see those ideas were realized. “ Each Reface has its original model and it’s important to recapture them in an authentic way. “ We were looking at the future to realize the new concept and at the same time getting back to Yamaha’s history to grasp the sound identity ,” Shintake tells of Yamaha’s efforts to rework the classic DX and CS lines.
Recognising this continuing demand, Yamaha recently embarked on a journey to bring the spirit and essence of these classics to life using modern technology. Generations of artists and producers have sought them out and countless more emulated Yamaha’s CS and DX models with digital samples or patches. Yamaha’s CS and DX series cast an enduring shadow. It might sound like a chicken or egg situation, but I would say when artists produce a new sound and new music, the instruments used by them will become timeless ones. Unless musical instruments meet artists, there’s no sound. “ There were artists who created a new sound ,” she continues, “ which gave birth to the culture.
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