Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@y..., Summa <flotorian@y...> wrote:
> At 14:14 15.06.01 -0000, you wrote:
> >
> 
> I can imagine that, I recently sold a set for the K5000 to a 
company...
> 

Excellent ! 
Hope they put your name in the Marketing materials (I hate when 
they don't list the programmer).

> Btw. I ran into another problem were the manual or you might 
be able to help
> me... 
> The VZ-1 has a quite strange behaviour when it comes to the 
oscillator
> waveforms. It's easy to understand as long as I work with 2 
Oszillators.
> Since when I set those to phase and change the operator 
waveform of the
> modulator I'm changing the waveform of the carrier instead.

You lost me there- I'm not understanding - (sorry) if you could 
explain in terms of M1, M2, M3 etc and who's modulating whom -I  
might  understand.
 
Another thing
> is, when set to phase, even when the modulator is muted, it's 
still
> modulating the carrier (with a value of 50, compared to the DX7 
modulator
> volume). So with complex operator links it's hard to tell the 
operator
> waveform. I found out that in most cases the waveform of the 
first an the
> last one a row are swapped, but don't know about the other 
operators. Is
> there anything about this in the manual that could shed ligth on 
that
> behaviour?   
> 
> Summa

That's really odd. 
I just looked at the manual (VZ8m) and it makes no mention of 
Muting.  It only lists the following parameters as being 
associated with Operator output..
AMP ENV (DCA)
ENV DEPTH (DCA)
KF LEVEL (DCA)
VEL LEVEL (DCA)

My experience has been- when you turn an operator off (on a 
VZ10m the litle red led next to the M* button goes off)- it is 
sonically removed from the chain.

The manual only has 3 real pages of iPD description- exactly 
"how Much" modulation isn't covered in mathematical terms.
You just get ......
"This phase modulates that" 
"These two ring moduate"
The closest they get is when they show 4 points of a DCA ENV 
and the corresponding wave output at each of the 4 points (for a 
one on one Phase modulation).

They describe waves 1-5 as having different degrees of "buzz".
Wish they'd show an Oscilloscope capture of the waves - and an 
additive spectrum for them.

The other pages of the manual are just one page each for each 
numbered parameter- with very brief descriptions.

I hope I've answered well- I'm trying- but I feel like my answers 
aren't helping (not my fault though- the Manual is really sparse).

I wonder....... if we found the enginer who designed the VZ 
engine ... would we be able to understand his Japanese ?

Todd :)