my buttons were sticky like that too. I just carefully dismantled it, put all the buttons and rubber button pad thingies in a bowl of water, and cleaned each one by one. It takes an hour or so of work, but its worth it to get rid of that terribly annoying stick >From: "Timothy Hansen" <nationwideclyde@...> >Reply-To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com >To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [CZsynth] On Using a CZ101 in Completely the Wrong Way >Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:15:45 -0000 > >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 > > > _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
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Re: [CZsynth] On Using a CZ101 in Completely the Wrong Way
2003-07-27 by The Number