I was working for Yamaha when the CS-80 came out, and having spent considerable time on both, the CS-60 wasn't in the same league...yes, it was lighter, but the oscillator power was not there, and the presets were pretty dismal, and really needed a lot of tweaking...and there was only one user memory. Having said that, it did have the really long velvet ribbon controller which was pretty cool for doing wild pitch bends and trills.

But, I found the sound a bit on the thin side, although it was still analog.

My Polymoog was one of the very first polyphonic synths available, which is why I bought it (it was the price of a real nice car)...everything on the market up to then was monophonic...the strings and brass were incredible (the Vox Humana was pure Gary Numan)...the pianos and other sounds, not so much.

Hindsight being 20-20 vision, I would have waited for the Jupiter 8, but, again, the Polymoog opened a lot of doors for me back then, so it managed to do the job.

Mine was the Polymoog 203A (1975), not the largely pre-set Polymoog Keyboard (model 280A) released in 1978, which was a dud, in my opinion.

I used to run various keyboards through the Polymoog's filters...pretty slick, and the Polypedal allowed for hands free filtering, pitch, modulation etc.

The Polymoog was another tool, and it depended very much on how the player dug into it.

After some modifications, mine was very stable and reliable...actually much better than the Memorymoog that followed it...plus, it had FULL polyphony.

Oberheim were a bit scarce here...a friend has a Matrix 12, and I occasionally noodle around on another buddy's old Four Voice, but the synth explosion really didn't really happen until the Yamaha DX-7, the Roland Juno-106, and Korg Polysix and/or Monopoly...the big old analogs were just too expensive for the average player.

I must say, I am very impressed with Korg's Kronos...what a terrific "live" AND studio instrument.

Ian