I've been playing around with the CZ1 I bought recently and have noticed that in Normal mode it's dropping the lowest note played once I engage a fifth note (i.e. it can play 4 notes at once at most and will drop the lowest note to play the note of the fifth key pressed). My understanding though is that in normal mode (with 2 oscillators engaged) I should be able to play 8 notes together, not 4. If I drop the tone to one oscillator I can play 8 notes simultaneously, but not a 9th without it dropping the lowest held note - but with only one oscillator engaged I think I should be able to hold 16 notes. So, in a nutshell, seems to me the polyphony is cut in half to a total of 8 voices and not 16 as I expect it should be. Perhaps I am simply wrong about this, or am missing something - but I've only owned this synth for a few weeks, and have only been investigating vintage synths for a few months, so this is all pretty new to me. One person on the Vintage Synthesizer Forum believed someone else in this group had a similar issue some time ago. Any advice/insights welcome! Cheers, James
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CZ1 has half its polyphony
2011-06-08 by wjamesmeagher