Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, sealed <sealed@m...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've made such an editor that puts nonstandard values into CZ.
> http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/index.html
> 
> But my editor deals only with patch data, and I haven't tried wider
> range for non-patch data like pitch bend range. So bend range 99
> was interesting to me. I thought of testing with my C, but it would
> take time.

> Thank you very much for clarifying the result. I'm pleasedly
> surprised to hear that you have figured it out in the 80s. Please
> let me know if there's anything of interest....
> 
> Sealed

It looks like your editor is for the Mac, right?  (Otherwise, I'd 
check it out.)

With My CZ-5000 and my Commodore 64, I got into writing midi routines 
(6502 assembly language).  It was fun!!!

I even charted all the possible values for the CZ-5000's sequences.  
You could put in smaller notes than you could through the user 
interface.  I thought I mentioned this in the group a few 
weeks/months ago, but I can't find the post. 

Also, found out that the CZ-3000 had the same sequencer memory as the 
CZ-5000.  I go into the sequencer memory structure, too. Wanted to 
figure out if I could force velocity data in there even though the CZ 
didn't respond to it.  (I don't recall if I was successful.  I think 
not.)

I did have a routine that would bounce a track.  E.g., take the data 
from track 1 and assign it to another track.  One goal (not met) was 
to make a routine to merge track data.  (I decided it was easier to 
just a computer sequencer.)

I may have my original notes around here somewhere for the above 
projects.  I didn't get into charting all the useful bogus data 
permutations (though I may still have some cool accidental patches in 
C-64 files.

Dr. Steve