Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

> Thanks for your answer Steve. I'm sure you're right about those 
> batteries. I found the battery slot . . . 
Sorry to hear you have some serious cleaning to do.  I hope the 
contacts wll still work.

> About sending/receiving sysex. I have been searching though old 
> postings. I'm not allowed to download Daniel Krüger's program, 
> appearently (http://www.synthomania.de/ = 403 forbidden). Daniel, 
> you still here!?

Now that you mentioned it, I think he only had it posted for a little 
while. I will see if I can find my copy.

> . . . I haven't been able to find out how to send sysex *from* the 
> CZ-5000. Some old posting said that from a CZ-1 you can press a key 
> for "Cartridge/Midi-saveMidi". No such thing on the CZ-5000 as far 
> as I can tell. A Cartridge-save, yes, but it only saves to, well, 
> cartridge.

> Can anyone tell me if there's a magic key combination that makes 
the 
> CZ-5000 send sysex (and if so, which!) or will it only send data on 
> sysex-request?

> Darn, I miss that manual... There are broken links to a CZ-3000 
> manual on the web. Anyone knows how to get a hold of it these days?

Hmmm.  It has been a while.  Just got mine out.  BTW, MT is for data 
tape.  With the right cable you can save/load/verify midi data 
to/from/from an audio cassette player (remember those?).  I have 
tapes somewhere as well as the cable.  Do you have the cable?

You are right, you cannot initiate sysex dumps from front panel.  
Looks like you have to use sysex commands. CZ series sysex had a 
flaw.  All sysex messages are required to have F7h - EOX.  On CZ, the 
sysex did handshaking stuuf, but didn't send F7h until the process 
was completed.  (If this is beyond you, don't worry--its not 
critical.)

I don't think I have done patch or sequence dumps since the Commodore 
64.  I wrote some custom software (C-64 assembler) to do stuff with 
the sequencer memory, but seem to have gotten rid of all my notes 
about 6-10 months ago. 

I have manuals, but no time (or patience) to scan.  I saw the Casio 
Guidebook for MIDI (Nov. 1985) on line a year or two ago, but didn't 
find it just now.  That has info on CZ sysex format (handshaking, 
etc.) if you--or anyone--wanted to write a program. 

I seem to recall that Cakewalk software had dump request macros.  I 
will test this this afternoon.

Steve