Amazing - that's exactly what happened with my CZ-101, to the letter! I gave up and threw mine away (nothing could get it working) and I found a nice CZ-1 for £85 on www.loot.com. Exactly the same architecture, but with 16 or 8 voices, 5-octave velocity and after-touch sensitive full-sized keyboard, mod wheel, onboard chorus, sustain pedal and 128 (or is it 256?) user memories. I have even used it as a MIDI master keyboard with a piano module (it's far more portable than my Studiologic SL-880 and of course can produce some killer Hammond and combo organ sounds by itself). By the way, I have a complete ring binder full of patches I've written, ranging from Crumhorn to Vibraslap, along with Trash Pad, Bland Sax, Mellotron Strings (which cut out after 8 seconds just to make you play it like a real 'Tron), Jah Skank, Hohner Pianet T and the best Grand Piano sound you're likely to get from a CZ (not very convincing).
Simon Beck
London, UK
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From: Rocky Rodenbach
To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: [CZsynth] CZ1000
Hi. I'm new to this group. I thought I'd share a story about my CZ1000.
I bought it in 1985. I had a couple keyboards before that though. But the
CZ was the first that had full size keys and I used it the most. It's a
pretty amazing synth, the presets are for the birds, but with an 8 stage
envelope generator, you could really make some very interesting sounds.
It's been under my bed for the last five to six years, and when I pulled it
out and tried using it, I found it had given up to ghost. Everytime I turn
the power on, all the lights blink on and off rapidly, and a constant tone
is produced, it changes in pitch each time I power it on. I'm not too
broken hearted, it's had a rough life, it's been dropped a few times, so I'm
not surprised. I was thinking about buying another one on Ebay, I may do
that. I have patches I've written if anyone's interested.
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Re: [CZsynth] CZ1000
2004-06-19 by Simon Beck