Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

From what people are telling me, I'll definitely try to learn it without a patch editor.

I've not programmed patches on an analog synth before, but I've programmed some 
on my Casio CZ 101.  I often times don't really know what I'm doing and I just play 
around with settings till I come up with a sound that I really like.  But I'm learning.

Joey

On 11 Feb 2005 at 12:41, Jez wrote:

> 
> What a surprise - more gearfreaks all looking for that special and
> unique feel and sound.
> 
> I used to have a DW8000. This synth has bucket loads of character. I
> tried that editor, but never got it to work, though I found the DW8000
> pretty easy to program - very well designed and almost as easy to
> program as a Juno 60. You won't need to look at the manual if you've
> programmed an analogue before. The DW8000 does not have bucket loads
> of modulation options, but the inbuilt delay is a great feature
> (especially for the time - it was the first ever synth with built-in
> digital delay effects). Anyway - if you want that distinctive DW8000
> sound, it's a truly great synth. I didn't , and my wife didn't like
> the space it took up, so it had to go. Korgs are notorious for battery
> leakage, so you might want to replace the backup battery straight off.
> 
> Late last year, I found a bargain DSS1 and couldn't resist. It has the
> same good instinctive interface design as the DW8000, but it's twice
> the weight (this thing is a tank) and twice the complexity. And about
> 1/2 the price! This beast was quite difficult to get working. It does
> not retain sounds, so you have to load them from disk each time you
> switch it on. So the floppy is vital. You can get replacement disk
> drives ($70?), and you'll need a good supply of DS/DD floppies. It
> took me best part of 4 hours to create a suitable disk with some
> sounds on. Fortunately, there are a lot of disk images available on
> the net, from some very good sources. This thing is absolutely AWSOME.
> It out-pads everything else I've ever laid my hands on with the
> exception of a prophet VS, is hugly versatile and can be fatter than a
> minimoog on steroids. Not bad for something that cost me as much as
> (let's try to keep this on-topic) my CZ101.
> 
> IMHO, Try to get to know your DW8000 without a patch editor, and learn
> to use the modulation on the delay to get a decent chorus or flange.
> It's easy enough to program that you'll be able to fill half the
> patches within a few days, and limited enough that you'll get the full
> range of sounds out of it without needing to find 3rd party patches
> for it.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:04:23 -0500, Scott Nordlund <gsn10@...> wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm getting a Korg DW 8000. Anyone know of a good patch editor
> > >for Windows for this?
> > >
> > >I realize this is unrelated to the CZ group. Sorry if it bugs some of
> > >you that I'm asking here.
> > 
> > Off-topic certainly, but it seems like we're all synth nerds here.
> > 
> > Anyway the DW-8000 is very nice sounding, though fairly limited. Though you
> > don't really need an editor, there's an old (windows 3.1) editor here:
> > http://www.netaxs.com/~aruggeri/dw8000.htm or you could use a general
> > purpose midi-editor program. I have to ask, though, have you considered the
> > DSS-1? It's very cheap now, and essentially a DW-8000 (same basic voice
> > structure, same lovely filters) with user-definable waveforms and some other
> > added features (dual delays, oscillator sync, waveform creation via additive
> > synthesis and drawing, it's a sampler too but I don't think it's
> > particularly useful in that regard). If you don't mind the size/weight
> > (it's absolutely massive and there's no rack model) and you get one with a
> > working disk drive, it would probably be a better alternative, for probably
> > about the same price.
> > 
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