Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

At the time, the CZ was marketed very much as a synth-on-the-cheap, with
sales staff featuring how it could be run via a sequencer on a different
channel for each voice (very cool at that time).  But I don't think it was
so much seen by anyone as a cheap FM-ish synth, it was its own thing with
its own sound.  If you wanted "any" cheap synth the CZ might be picked, but
by the same token if you wanted FM sound you'd get something else or if you
wanted the PD sound you'd get the CZ or VZ.  I got the CZ-101 frankly,
initially, purely out of limited funds, but I was and remain quite happy
with that choice.  In fact as soon as I could, back at that time even, I got
a 2nd CZ101.  I recently bought a CZ-5000.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Rodenbach" <yooper@...>
To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [CZsynth] okay so it isn't fm but hey...why did you or anyone
else buy the CZ's?


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "M.J.B." <yazzofever@...>
> To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:31 PM
> Subject: [CZsynth] okay so it isn't fm but hey...why did you or anyone
else
> buy the CZ's?
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> > okay steve, scott, summa and rocky...
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> > so it's not a dx, but why did people buy the
> > cz101 back in 1984, even more then that in '86
> > with the "1."
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> > Who was Casio targeting?  Was is just people who
> > couldn't program or who didn't have enough $?
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> > And if I hadn't of been 6 in 1984, and let's say
> > I would have had the money to buy a DX7, were
> > there people out there who actually bought the
> > casio cz series over the dx series?  Why?  Did
> > you?
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> >
> > micah
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> Actually, I would think most people bought the CZ101 over the CZ1000
because
> of the price.  The CZ101 had the same architecture the CZ1000 had, but it
> had mini keys vs. the full sized keys the CZ1000 offered.
>     I think Casio was targeting the low end user on a limited budget yet
> still wanted a synth that had a lot of features.  I don't think that lack
of
> programming came in to that much, the CZ only came with 16 preset sounds,
so
> you still have the learn the in's and out's if you want to expand the
range
> of what was there.
>     I really don't know the percentage of people who would favor the CZ
over
> the DX7.  I would have to strongly assume that the serious studio
musicians
> and the like would choose the DX7 over it's velocity and pressure
sensitive
> keys, mod wheel, breath controller, 16 note polyphony, etc.  Plus, the DX7
> is built like a tank, a very good keyboard to take on the road.  Like I
> mentioned, I still like my CZ even through it no longer works, I need to
> find one on Ebay one of these days.
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>     Rocky
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