Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

The early CT and MT series used static waveforms (as described below) with an amplitude envelope. Each voice (the keyboards tended to be 8-voice instruments) had two different waveforms, each with its own envelope. This allowed more interesting sounds to be produced. Later models even featured detuned waveforms and repeating envelopes. The 1000P and its ilk used additive synthesis which produced a more organ-like (and boring) sound than the earlier models.

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott Nordlund 
  To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:59 AM
  Subject: RE: SV: RE: SV: RE: [CZsynth] What do you own.......


  >   yes i'm familiar with the HT-series functions, but how does this 
  >"single-cycle waveform" really work ? is it a sampled waveform looped or is 
  >it some kind of analog ?

  As I understand it, it's not really samples or analog- just very primitive 
  16-step digital waveforms.  They're played at a high sample rate so there's 
  no audible aliasing.  But obviously they're not very pure waveforms- the 
  triangle wave on the HT series has a lot of overtones so it really doesn't 
  sound much like a triangle wave.  I think it sounds really good this way.  
  Also there's some kind of waveform crossfading (as you can hear on the 
  MT-68's "cosmic tone" sound, for example) but this isn't editable in the HT 
  series.

  I think most Casio models (except MT-70, MT-35, CZ, VL, PT, etc.) used this 
  until the sample-based stuff came out.




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