Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

> >All that for a synth with weaker FM than the norm?
> 
> Less agressive don't necessarely means that they sound weaker...  just
> different... as I mentioned before, it's (at least for my ears) probably
> hard for a synth to sound as agressive/harsh as the old FM synths...

Head out to Yamaha's manual library (use google, Yamaha registration
required) and pull the manuals for the SY77, TG77 and SY99.  These
were "RCM" synths - 16 note poly 6-op FM (45 algorithms) AND 16 note
poly AWM (including squares, saws, etc.).  Pitch, Filter and Amp
envelope generators available on each of four such elements per voice.
And AWM waveforms were usable as both carriers and modulators of the
FM signal chain.  What it lacks in "FM aggressiveness" it more than
makes up in depth.  Nothing done so far at Yamaha has quite gotten
there.  These were scary synths in 1989 and they're still pretty scary
today.

ccb (waiting for Motif)


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