Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Took a quick look in the sysex manual; no checksum that I could see. (Did I missed it?)

I used the equivalent of "debug" to mine the CZ-5000 seqeuncer memory dump format. Obviously it is not a very high level tool, but it really depends what someone wants to do. It was sufficient to change values, see the results, and map the dump and internal memory structure. It even yielded options that could not be entered through the CZ interface.

For example, it is possible to set the number of internal voices to zero on a track-by-track basis and have the sequencer tracks play the note data out solely through the CZ-5000 midi port. 

If someone has the time and ability to write a fully developed CZ patch editor, I'd take some time to test it.

Back to the original question: what are you wanting to do?

--Steve



--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Lee Borrell <templarser@...> wrote:
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> In theory- you can edit a CZ file with MIDI-ox but it is perhaps not the recommended route - I can't recall if CZ's operate a checksum - but if they did it means calculating it manually - and even if they do not - then editing individual bytes is possible - but it means referring to the byte map ( I have it online but the site seems to be down for some reason) - this is why Charles and myself have been trying to find a way to do an editor.
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