Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

There are editors out there for the CZ synths. CZ-Droid is a free app 
that was written for Atari but it works with Windows using the Steem 
emulator. It gives a decent graphical representation of the synths 
envelopes. There are other editors too such as Midiquest and Unisyn. 
These must be purchased but they work very well. Unisyn has crapppy 
support. Midiquest has good support. I have 2,500 CZ101-CZ5000 
patches from the web in my Midiquest library. Then I made 450 or so 
CZ1 patches that from this library by adding the velocity to the 
DCO,DCW, and DCA sections. 

Narfman

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <dba741@...> wrote:
>
> I also think it's a great idea to save patches in an excel doc. 
Like 
> you, I've picked up a CZ synth thinking it would be easy to program 
> it. Most the time I've found this to be wrong. Granted it's easy 
> to "mess around" with it until you find a sound you like, it's no 
> easy thing to program it. I always try to find a patch close to the 
> sound I need and then change it to fit my needs. 
> 
> I've been trying to program these things since I got a CZ-101 back 
> in '85, and still can't get it right. 
> 
> Is there a software program out there that works for the CZ family 
> of keyboard equimpment? Something VISUAL? Amazing it is that 
there's 
> no Cubase for the CZ-1 or CZ-5000 yet. 
> Whatever happened to that old Commodore Amiga program a long time 
> ago? 
> Someone could probably make a fair amount of money if they wrote 
the 
> software to do this.
> 
> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Austin Cliffe" <austin_cliffe@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I think this is also a good idea to put good patches into an 
excel 
> document, 
> > although I'm certainly not the one to implement it...
> > 
> > If anyone else is like me, we picked up these synths knowing that 
> they were 
> > capable of making a wide variety of sounds without necessarily 
> knowing what 
> > we were getting into as far as designing these sounds. I 
> downloaded a 
> > manual, but I have to admit I understand very little after trying 
> to read 
> > it.
> > 
> > I also don't know a whole lot about patches, as I'm sure others 
> might not as 
> > well.  I understand these are the parameters that "shape" the 
> sounds, but I 
> > have no idea how to implement or adjust them using a computer 
> interface, 
> > where software like this would be available, and only a vague 
> notion of how 
> > to manually edit them on the display.
> > 
> > If anyone is feeling up to the task of demystifying some of these 
> factors 
> > for us newbies, it would be most appreciated.  If I am missing 
out 
> on a 
> > resource that already explains away some of these mysteries in 
> more friendly 
> > terms than the manual, please point me in the right direction.
> > 
> > --Austin Cliffe
> > 
> > 
> > >From: "Patrick Wichrowski" <patrickillian2@>
> > >Reply-To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
> > >To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
> > >Subject: Re: [CZsynth] patches in excel
> > >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:20:11 -0200
> > >
> > >It is a good idea :)
> > >
> > >2007/1/26, Felipe Afonso <felipe2205@>:
> > > >
> > > >   it is usefull to save patches for the ones that don't have 
a 
> cable 
> > >midi.
> > > >
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