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Re: [CZsynth] CZ1 aftertouch confusion

2011-06-07 by james meagher

Yes. Thanks Bill & Wilson, I've got it going now and it's working perfectly.

I assumed that the Modulation button on the CZ1 was only for settings
related to the mod wheel. Also, as I couldn't find anything about After
Touch in the Manual's table of contents so I was mostly hunting for the info
much further on, around page 29 where it discusses the velocity settings for
the keys (as that was the closest related thing I could think of to after
touch).

Thanks for all the help! It always seems to be the simplest things that get
me stumped and the stuff I think is going to be really hard that ends up
going smoothly!

Cheers,
James

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Wilson Zorn <wilson.zorn@...>wrote:

>
>
> Hmmm, maybe check the After Touch Range? See page 18 at least as numbered
> in the manual at
> http://www.synthzone.com/midi/casio/cz1/CZ1%20USER%20MANUAL.pdf Perhaps
> the range is set to 00 on the sound(s) in question, so no response on the
> synth but the midi data is still valid.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:08 PM, wjamesmeagher <w.james.meagher@...
> >wrote:
>
>
> > Hi all,
> > I've had my CZ1 (my first "real" synth) for a few weeks now and have
> > managed (with the user manual and reading a lot of previous posts made
> > here) to figure out its PD programming, and also how to transfer SysEx
> > to and from my computer.
> > I am however a bit stumped regarding the "aftertouch" feature. At first
> > I assumed that the aftertouch on my CZ1 simply wasn't working as varying
> > the pressure on the keys while holding them down sonically seems to have
> > zero effect no matter what tone I'm using. Then I thought I'd actually
> > record the MIDI info coming from the CZ into Logic while I played a few
> > notes and varied the pressure - sure enough it seems to be sending a
> > fairly steady stream of Channel Pressure messages which I assume are
> > coming from the aftertouch function of the keyboard . . . but still no
> > noticeable effect on the sound no matter what tone I'm applying it to.
> > I can't find anything in the Operation Manual regarding any settings or
> > functionality of the aftertouch so at this point I'm just scratching my
> > head. I seem to remember reading somewhere some time ago that the
> > aftertouch only affects Vibrato on the CZ1, but even when playing with
> > the Vibrato settings on various tones I can't seem to hear anything
> > happening as a result of the aftertouch pressure applied.
> > Here's an image of MIDI info coming from the keyboard into Logic as I
> > hold down one key and vary the pressure:
> > [CZ1 aftertouch MIDI info in Logic]
> > Any ideas what I'm missing here? I'm sure it's probably something
> > ridiculously obvious!
> > Cheers,James
> >
> >
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