Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hey Cosmo !
   
  Just got your mail, thanks...
   
  & Thanks  for the info about the Erasure videos DVD, I will have to get that off ebays and take a look.
   
  Hey, agreed.  The colours of the CZ-1 are awesome, when I had the CZ3000, I would of loved to been able to ''buy'' the CZ-1, when I saw it in that shop window in London.
   
  When I 1st saw it, I just thought, spot on, they have it pefect! ''Top-of-the-Range'' 
   
  The colours, 
   
  like a  peppermint green, the ''reds'' of the bottons, & the Blue (savana?) LCD !!!! Wow, Cosmic ! Top dollar CZ Flag-Ship, Great !
   
  Hey it Just looked SO  ''Pro'', much better than any CZ before.
   
  Retrospectivley, I also think it was great thing that it was the ''last'' CZ in the line up. A perfect finish for a Great range of products.
   
  I'm glad they got this right too, as I think it would of been wrong, say, for them to make another CZ after this, Like, If they went & made a ''CZ-7'' or something, continued the line, and tried to compete with the DX7 II, or the D-50.
   
  They got it right (again) Stayed True to ''Pure Synth''
   
  & kept the next range '' PURE SYNTH, with the VZ-1.
   
  (Thankk God it wasn't  S+S ! )
   
  All I can say is, those were the days ''when Synths, were Real / Pure Synths'' : - )
   
  And Now?
   
  Every year its ''just'' another ''re-packaged'' product, dressed up again and again (i'm talking Korg & Roland now...) Don't get me wrong, they make Great noises, but, One day, I hope that the Big Jap's will again make ''Pure Synths'' rather than re-packaged Roland U-20's every year, etc etc.....
   
  S+S, Its a bit long in the tooth now, don't you think? 
   
  Bring BACK REAL SYNTHS ! I would BUY them, but I won't buy 2005 S+S.
   
  Hey the only thing I have seen that makes me want something New in 2005, is the Dave Smith Poly-Evolver keyboard, even this is software, really..shame.
   
  Hey, anyways, they don't make them like the used to huh?!
   
  Back to Erasure.
   
  Have a listen to ''Who Needs Love Like That' 
  the single from 1985.
   
  I have quite a few sounds inside my CZ-1 that are in this Track, listen close to the intro synth line, you can hear one, he ''stacks / midis '' quite a few sounds when recording, but the ''CZ'' is there.
   
  MP3 Samples?
   
  Would love to, but my Studio is a bit Retro (at the moment) Don't laugh to much (he he he, hey I am!)
   
  But I'm still using an Atari ST Cubase combination, So no power PC yet (dOh!) 
   
  But, hey MP3 will be ''added'' at some point, soon I hope with a power PC, will let you know, &  I'll post up a ''sample'' or two : - )
   
  Hey, Its almost Christmas ! Great !
   
  Till then,
   
  ''Long Live the CZ''
   
  My Best,
   
  JR
   
  
Cosmo <czcosmo@...> wrote:
  --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Johnny Retro
<the_real_johnny_retro@y...> wrote:
>
>   1st up, I Love your site! Saw it around a year ago, anyway, its cooL !
>    
>   I think its excellent..Keep up the good work dude.


well there's a lot more to do – but I havn't enogh time to put up the
rest of the stuff I have in stock ;-)
but thanx.
>    
>    
>    ''Wow, the colours are fantastic!'' (I had a CZ3000) and wanted 1
too ! he he he...Great ''memories'' huh ?

yes – still a real 80ies design: luv it! real cyan, real grey and plastic!

>   The original sounds he put in mine, were, as you know, done on a
101, he had the CZ-1 from Casio, they were trying Rreally hard to get
that 'Pro market', even in 88,  and knowing that Vince used the 101's
before, they got him interested enough (gave him a Free CZ-1
basically, mine! ) as long as he would use it ''Live'' on Camera,
Stage, Top of the Pops, so he agreed and I can actually Remember them
on Top of the Pops using it, ''Live''  (not a video...)

Vince played the Casios in the "oh L'amour Video" (hidden track in the
HITS! – DVD); get it if you're in erasure; and I've seen the CZ-1 in a
short Interview (guess it was around '87) with "taped" Keys where
Vince triggered his Samples...
I remember that CZ very well – all plastic and a lot of buttons ;-)
Later in the Music store I was very frustrated about the
Preset-Sounds. bulls*it! But Vince plays it so it MUST be cool ...
I picked up the CZ for 600 DM (300 Eur) and jammed all day (my fave
were the 3 Preset Brasses...


>    
>   I promised Vince ; - ) I'd not share his sounds with the world, a
man of my word, I have to keep that. (sorry dude : - )

ok... but some nice MP3s from the sounds would be cool!..
   
>   Keep smiling ; - ) Maybe one day, I mite sell it on ebays, all
data-still in it !
>    
>   £1,000,0000 ?

140 Eur – fair price. mail me if you sell it #8-)

Cosmo
www.cosmosynthesizer.de






    
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