Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I am more familiar with the CZ-3000/CZ-5000/CZ-1 architecture than 
the CZ-101/CZ-1000, and I haven't done much with it in a while, but 
if its the same, you want mono mode, not solo mode. But maybe the 
101/1000 is different--the 3000/5000/1 don't have the CH/VO 
structure. 

Check out the docs in the Files section.

Hope this helps.
 
--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "dreamend" <dreamend@...> wrote:
>
> Hello again, my music laptop has died on me, So for the moment, I've
> resolved to getting a pure old school hardware setup working and
> finally get my live italo band out on the road! I figured out how to
> use an old friend's alesis mmt, synced it up to my korg drum machine
> and then connected it my new (to me) casio cz-1000.
> 
> I got a few basic patterns going and it sounded really splendid 
(there
> is such visceral pleasure in syncing hardware, isn't there?).. but 
now
> I'm a little stuck.
> 
> My problem:
> 
> I put the CZ into `Solo' Mode, select Midi channel 1 on the left, 
and
> then skip across to the right and select the other sounds by 
changing
> the `vo' setting.....(note the `instruments' names below are just 
for
> illustration)
> 
> Thus it looks Something like this
> 
> CH=01 VO=01 `bass'
> CH=01 VO=02 `guitar'
> CH=01 VO=03 `piano'
> CH-01 VO=04 `choir'
> 
> So far so good, but when push on the VO channel to change the patch 
of
> guitar, it seems to `follow' it and changes the `bass' sound to the
> `guitar'.
> 
> When you pull it back down to the original channel (01), it goes 
back
> to the bass. The effect is that it makes it really hard to get a 
good
> understanding of what sounds go best with eachother!
> 
> The sequencer is an alesis mmt8 and I'm sending out on tracks 
1,2,3,4.
> 
> Is this standard behaviour for a cz-1000? I don't expect it to run
> like a pro sound module or anything but I was really hoping it could
> run 4 seperate monophonic parts which could be changed/altered
> independently of each other.
> 
> Can anyone help? I will reward you with my three of my favourite
> italo/chip tunes!
> 
> Cheers :)
> 
> and thanks to everyone who advised me on the dump/sysex thing, am 
> gonna try it when my laptop's back up and running
>