Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hi Kubi,

On 22 Nov 2003 at 2:35, kubi wrote:

> Hi there !
> 
> I'm new to the list which I joined because I want to by a Casio synth
> soon. I used some Casios in a studio many years ago and still can't
> forget the sound, time to get one as they're pretty cheap these days.
> 
> I tried to look a bit around and to get informed about the Casios and
> found three product lines which may be interesting for me: CZ, FZ and
> VZ.
> 
> Ok, and here are some things I didn't understand - please correct me
> if I got something wrong.
> 
> If the CZ1000, CZ3000, CZ5000 and CZ1 are better (full-size keyboard,
> more voices) than the CZ101, why does the CZ-101 sometimes achieve
> ebay prices of more than 300EUR, while some of the bigger brothers go
> cheaper? Is there anything the CZ101 does better?

It's smaller and can be battery powered ;) 
Btw. the CZ-1 is velocity sensititve...
 
> FZ is a sampler which is able to playback synthesized sounds. The
> voice structure is always "One DCO (Sample) -> One Filter -> Amp",
> right? No second OSC per voice? No ringmod? No OscSync? Is there any
> kind of real-time modulation of the waveform (sample or synthesized)
> possible?

Never had one, but in the 80s I used the FZ-1 of a friend quite a lot. 

It's a sampler, you can stack up to 8 voices. You also can create a doubled and 
detuned version of a sample. Only a few samplers at all have Sync and/or Ringmod. 

> The VZ uses up to eight OSCs per voice. Does the number of voices
> depend on the number of OSCs used per voice? Or does it really have
> 128 OSCs?

Yes, 128 Oszillators, 8 per Voice, 16 Voice... at least when it comes to the VZ-1 
or VZ-10m

> I didn't get the answers myself from the manuals, so maybe someone can
> point me the right direction.

...Summa


-- 

A Touch of Future - Project	: http://www.mp3.com/AToF/
CZ/VZ Mailing list		: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CZsynth
FMHeaven Mailinglist		: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fmheaven/