Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

That's great advice Simon. I'm going to do some more testing today to see if this could be caused by some setting I'm unaware of (I am the guy who couldn't figure out that the Modulation button has to be engaged for After Touch Vibrato to sound!)



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On 2011-06-08, at 10:59 AM, "Simon Beck" <simon@...> wrote:

> 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.
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> Simon
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: wjamesmeagher 
> To: CZsynth@...m 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:57 PM
> Subject: [CZsynth] CZ1 has half its polyphony
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> 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). 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Any advice/insights welcome!
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> Cheers,
> James
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