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Re: Casio FZ / Hohner HS-1/E

2007-09-26 by Mark Rauch

Howdy,

 i remember when the FZ-1 first came out, my freind bought one and 
brought it over. We sampled 1 note out of my cheesy little Yamaha CS-
01, and played polyphonically, was the fattest analog synth sound I 
had heard up to and a while after. BIG, REALLY BIG!
Rig

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Cornelius Schöler <studio@...> wrote:
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> Hi Jeremy !
> 
> I think so too, this machine really sounds great.
> Compared for example to a software sampler it has got much more 
> presence.
> I have never loaded files via midi as sysex files.
> Is it easy to do ?
> If you want it to sound lofi, try sampling a sound at 9 khz.
> The filter (DCF) sounds great too.
> The synth modes are good too. It needs some time to edit. but the 
> results are fine.
> 
> greetings
> Cornelius
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> Am 25.09.2007 um 14:55 schrieb jboltnz:
> 
> > Hi Cornleius
> >  Just scored a Fz-10 this week. Having quite a bit of fun with it 
just
> >  loading up and doodling with the 142 "shareware" libraries that 
I have
> >  downloaded. Jeez, for being the first 16 bit sampler, this thing
> >  sounds great.
> >  I heard its nickname was the Fuzzee-one and was expecting 
something
> >  that sounded very lo-fi. So far its very full and clear sounding.
> >  We'll see how it goes once I start loading my own samples.
> >  Sadly the disk drive is kaput, thank god it still loads on sysex 
midi.
> >
> >  I also lucked onto a FZ-1 keyboard on ebay over the weekend. 
Cooool
> >  Ive been looking for one of these for over a year. All my 
Cristmasses
> >  at once!!
> >
> >  The 4 synth modes look interesting.
> >
> >  Glad I found out about these gems
> >
> >  Jeremy
> >
> >  
> >     
> 
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