Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

One reason why I didn't go for the Poly-800 all those years ago in the 1980s was that it only had one VCF for all 8 voices. The VCA envolope was fully polyphonic (OK for piano, organ or string sounds) but the VCF articulation was either single- or multiple-triggered. So with a brass sound for example you couldn't hold down a chord and solo over it without either the whole lot getting the brass "wah" each time you played a new note or alternatively the solo notes lacking a brass-like attack, depending on the setting. I know that the Polymoog had the same issue ten years earlier, but it was something I wouldn't have been prepared to put up with by the mid 1980s.

Simon

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jaytee.foster 
  To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 11:12 PM
  Subject: [CZsynth] Re: and on that note...


    
  Thanks for the tip! The Poly 800 is definitely also on my list of low-cost synths to start my collection with, along with Ensoniq ESQ-1, Kawai K3 and a couple other more obscure ones that seem to be going for lower prices these days.

  But for some reason, the CZ-synths seem to be calling to me... They just seem to go well with the kind of music I make.

  Mahalo
  JT

  --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, bill bigrig <billbigrig@...> wrote:
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  > Â you might want to consider a Korg Poly 800. i worked with a guy once who got an incredible pedal steel sound out of it. It does require a volme pedal sweep while bending the pitch downward. Plus, there's a good mod out there giving you manual control of the filter.
  > Rig
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  > --- On Fri, 5/27/11, jaytee.foster <jaytee.foster@...> wrote:
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  > From: jaytee.foster <jaytee.foster@...>
  > Subject: [CZsynth] and on that note...
  > To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
  > Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 5:18 PM
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  > As kind of a follow-up to my last post... if any is looking to off-load one of their CZs, I'd probably be interested. I have a line on a CZ-5000 for about $160 shipped, which seems like a decent deal, but I'm a bit more interested in a CZ-1 (for the nicer keyboard) or CZ-101 (for the size and supposed incredible lap steel guitar sounds) if I can find one. Then again, I'd jump at a 1000 or 3000 if the price was right. How it looks doesn't matter so much as long as it works right.
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  > Just thought I'd put myself out there; figure it can't hurt. If I can't get a line on anything else in the next few days, I'll probably pull the trigger on that 5000. (Pray for me that I don't miss out on it by hemming and hawing.)
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