Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Thanks a million Steve! This is great and very useful info! Bomer's 
SendSX program also seems to have the feature where I can send sysex 
requests and receive responses (and hopefully also save that data to 
file). 

Thanks to you too, Larry. Midi Quest might well be worth looking 
into... later...

See, I just ran out of luck. My CZ has gone completely nuts. When I 
switch it on it starts spewing midi data (seems to be pitch bend 
messages or something), the outs are crackling and it reboots every 
2-5 secs. Man, I can tell it's Halloween! Before I can even go on 
playing with the sysex stuff, I need to get the machine repaired. 
Can you believe it? I haven't even had it for a week. What's that 
word I'm looking for!? ...

Anyway, before this is over, I WILL have a functional CZ synth in my 
studio and I WILL be able to send/receive program data to/from it. 
That's for sure. Thanks again guys, I'll let you know what happens 
(and probably bother you with more Qs ;-).

Oh, and about that tape interface. Let's just say it's not high 
priority at the moment. ;-)

  Peter

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Good news, I hope.  With old version of cakewalk professional, I 
was 
> able to create dump request macros to get the CZ-5000 to send 
data.  
> I tried a patch dump request and a sequencer dump request.  From a 
> cursory glance of the data it looks like I got both patch and 
> sequencer data.  The next question is how to get the data from the 
> software to the CZ-5000 if at all possible.
> 
> Not sure if I will have time for further testing this afternoon.
> 
> If you have a sequencer that can send and receive sysex, try 
sending:
> 
> F0 44 00 00 7N 10 dd 7N 31 F7
> 
> where N = basic channel [0 at power up = channel 1]
> and dd = memory bank as follows:
> 
> 00 - 1F  =  preset bank A-1 to D-8
> 20 - 3F  =  memory bank A-1 to D-8
> 60       = sound area [current patch]
> 
> I received back from the CZ what looks like the following:
> 
> F0 44 00 00 70 30     [data header]
> [256 bytes of data]
> F7 [EOX]
> 
> Further testing (as long as I've got machine out):
> 
> (1) I sent request as follows:
> 
> F0 44 00 00 70 10 60 70 31 F7 to request current patch [sound 
area].
> 
> (2) The message I received was:
> 
> F0 44 00 00 70 30 [data] F7
> 
> (3) By hand, I edited it to:
> 
> F0 44 00 00 70 20 60 [data] F7
> 
> to put the data back into the sound area.
> 
> Works for memory banks too!
> 
> Now if I can just find my Commodore 128 and the software to 
convert 
> CBM-DOS files to MS-DOS files, I might be able to salavage all my 
old 
> CZ patches!!!!!
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> --Dr. Steve