Tonight was a special night. Through the miracle that is Craigslist, I bagged a FREE Casio CZ-101 complete w/ soundcard-to-midi cable. You cannot argue with free. This is a unit that has been collecting dust for almost ten years. There are no batteries in it, but just for the heck of it, I fired it up, and much to my surprise/delight, when "Internal" is selected, you can summon noises from the thing never intended by the designers- big whooshy noisy harshness, which can be greatly modified simply by pushing the individual line edit buttons, which reset all the values but alter the sound anyhow...it's bizarre. Shoot, before I messed with it, the bend range was set at 99! (impossible to do from the CZ itself...) Is this something other people's CZ's do, or is there something terribly wrong with mine? It also needs a good cleaning- many of the selector buttons stick badly. At least the keyboard is intact. At any rate, I had thought of reselling it but it's behaving so strangely I may keep it around as a compliment to my CZ-5000. Tim Hansen
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On Using a CZ101 in Completely the Wrong Way
2003-07-27 by Timothy Hansen