Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

>I was talking about the LCD display, in fact.
>
>Sorry for the confusion on the right name of that part.
>
>Our VZ-1 doesn't have it. It's all prepared to receive a new (or even
>used) display, in a very good condition but we have only a empty
>space instead of a broken display.

If the display is gone then there might not even be a way to replace it.  I 
have heard that the display itself is connected by a very thin and fragile 
plastic ribbon cable which is basically impossible to repair.  But, maybe if 
the whole assembly is missing (the display and whatever it's connected to) 
then you might be able to find another.  The problem is, I very highly doubt 
that any parts are available now, most likely you would have to take a 
display out of another unit.  It would probably be very difficult to find a 
broken one to use the display (because they're very well-made and reliable), 
so if you want a fully-functional VZ-1 it would probably be more practical 
just to find one that works.

(Actually, if you know someone who's good at electronics, it *might* be 
possible to somehow put a generic 64x96 pixel LCD display in there, but that 
would probably be pretty difficult as well, if it can even be done).

>So, even for the basic functions, the original manual would be
>very helpfull since the programmimg and other advanced functions
>are available in the file section of some groups (i believe that in
>this group too) and i have already downloaded them.
>
>If anybody knows , in english, spanish, french or portuguese ,
>where i can find this manual i would be very important for us.

Casio America probably has the manual, but I don't know if they'll mail it 
to Brazil.

If you're going to try to operate it "blind", then good luck- it's difficult 
enough to use *with* the display.  But for basic sound selections: pressing 
the "NORMAL" button will play single patches- select one by its 
corresponding number and letter- A-8 or D-3 or whatever.  If you have a 
card, then the "INTERNAL SUSTAIN" and "CARD END" buttons will switch between 
the internal sounds and the card sounds (respectively).  If it's a ROM card 
(as opposed to a RAM card) then you can press "CARD END" again to switch to 
the second bank of sounds on the card (RAM cards only have one bank).

For all the "MENU" screens, the first time you press the button, the up and 
down arrow buttons ("NO" and "YES") and "VALUE" slider select the menu page. 
  pressing the same "MENU" button again lets you select the paramters with 
the "CURSOR" buttons and change them with the arrow buttons and "VALUE" 
slider.  This stupid interface will probably make it very difficult to do 
much editing.

Pressing "MENU 1" goes into the patch editing but I really doubt it's 
possible to do anything useful here if you can't see what you're doing.  One 
very basic thing you can do, though, is press the "MODULE ON/OFF" buttons (A 
through H) to turn the 8 oscillators on and off- the row of 8 LEDs show you 
which ones are on and which are off.  "MENU 2" edits things like the 
monophonic mode, portamento, and controller parameters.  You can change some 
stuff here without much trouble.  On the first menu page (press "PLAY" or 
"NORMAL" to make sure you're on the main screen, then press "MENU 2" twice 
to edit the parameters), the first parameter is portamento time- change it 
with the "VALUE" slider or up and down arrows.  Lower values mean faster 
portamento, higher values mean slower.  Pressing the right "CURSOR" button 
moves you to portamento mode- press down for time constant portamento, up 
for rate constant portamento.  Pressing the right "CURSOR" button again 
moves you to monophonic mode: up for on, down for off.  These settings apply 
to all patches.  The rest of the menu pages are probably not worth messing 
with- it gets too confusing.  "MENU 3" contains stuff like memory protect, 
midi channel selecting, tuning, etc.  It's probably not a good idea to mess 
around in there for now.  If it's out of tune, I can tell you how to fix 
that but it's not worth bothering with the rest of it..

The "OPERATION MEMORY" button selects combined sounds- with layering, 
keyboard splits, and stuff like that, generally they have a fuller sound, 
but less polyphony.  Selecting these sounds works the same as in "NORMAL" 
mode.

If you want to reset everything to factory presets, hold down the "WRITE 
COPY/INITIALIZE" button while turning it on, then press "YES" while still 
holding it.

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