Yamaha CS-15

The Yamaha CS-15 is a Polyphony and [monophony in instruments|monophonic] analog synthesizer produced by Yamaha from 1979 to 1982.
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.

Architecture

It features two voltage-controlled oscillators, two 12 dB/Oct multi-mode Voltage-controlled filter, two ADSR envelopes and a Low-Frequency Oscillator. It also features a White noise and an external-in for processing other sounds.
The CS-15 offers a great flexibility with various routing possibilities to the filters and envelopes. You can, for example, route 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 to play the extra voice.

Notable users

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. Marillion used a CS-15 on their first full-length album, Script for a Jester's Tear. Boyd Jarvis, a producer and early pioneer of house music, started out with a CS-15 as his first synthesizer.