Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Johnny Retro
<the_real_johnny_retro@y...> wrote:
>

>   & Thanks  for the info about the Erasure videos DVD, I will have
to get that off ebays and take a look.

the're some Casios on the DVD: 2 stacked in the "oh L'amour Video" 
– here's the pic of YOUR CZ (lower Key) ;-)
the upper Keyboard is a CZ-101 – (see Mod-Wheel & knobs@side)

http://www.cosmosynthesizer.de/casiousr/vince_casio1.jpg
http://www.cosmosynthesizer.de/casiousr/Vince_2CZs.jpg

and here 2 nice pics with Vince & Eric Radcliffe in the Studio with a
rack of 4 (!) CZ-101 – and here's the Story (outtake from Sound on Sound):

"Vince Clarke (left) of synth popsters Erasure in the mid-'80s with
his engineer Eric Radcliffe, his stack of Casio CZ101 Phase Distortion
synths, and his BBC Model B-based UMI Sequencer. Each of the CZ101's
four multitimbral parts was addressable monophonically on a different
MIDI channel of the sequencer, which was highly novel at the time. But
Vince still needed several CZs to achieve the polyphony he wanted.
Within a few years he was getting around this problem by writing
records composed entirely of monophonic lines with no chords at all!"

http://www.cosmosynthesizer.de/casiousr/vince_ratcl_cz2.jpg

nice shot from '87 with erasure & the FZ-1 Sampler:
http://www.cosmosynthesizer.de/casiousr/vince87_FZ1.jpg

>   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.

its simply sreams: "POP!" and "80ies!"

>   All I can say is, those were the days ''when Synths, were Real /
Pure Synths'' : - )

I agree...


>   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.

the Envolver? pure analog! Checked some samples: they bored me...
poly-poly-ultra-saws; nothing for me. I like it clean.


>   Have a listen to ''Who Needs Love Like That' 
>   the single from 1985.

yes, the intro is "CZed". I had this sound on my CZ-1 years ago – it
matched 100%; I had a backup on Disk on a Korg DF-1 data filer (quick
and easy: dump, save to disk, ready), but the DF-1 is dead now;
and I forgot where the Disk is.

>   MP3 Samples?

you can send me a tape too ;-)

>    
>   But I'm still using an Atari ST Cubase combination, So no power PC
yet (dOh!) 

good... perfect setup for MIDI only.

Cosmo
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