Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

That sounds wrong to me - in Normal mode the CZ-1 should be at least 8-note poly, 16-note in single-oscillator mode. Are you sure you don't have some kind of layer switched on in a performance memory? Or perhaps you have voices assigned to external MIDI channels. I last looked at a CZ-1 about 5 years ago, so I'm guessing a bit here, but you may want to look at these suggestions.

Simon

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: wjamesmeagher 
  To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:57 PM
  Subject: [CZsynth] CZ1 has half its polyphony


    
  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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