Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

So, Bill (of tomlinson6050@...) replied to this polyphony matter
in another message thread I started (about engaging the After Touch on my
CZ1), with this brilliant idea:

*You said your were sending and recieving SYSEX to a computer....
Have you got a MIDI LOOP?
This has 'gotten' many synth owners..INCLUDING ME !!!!
Pull the MIDI cables and try again.*

. . . and sure enough the second I pulled the MIDI cable I had 16 active
voices of polyphony. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a very apologetic email
to write to an eBay seller . . . or maybe I'll let him stew on this
morning's messages a bit longer since he sold me the CZ1 without telling me
about the burnt out LCD backlight. ;)

Oh, and look, I see that as I am writing this that two more of you helpful
people have just sent me messages suggesting pretty much the same thing.
MIDI loop.
Now I know.

So the After Touch isn't broken and works after all as long as I engage the
Modulation button, and the CZ1 has ALL its voices working perfectly as long
as I don't create a MIDI loop . . . what will I think is broken tomorrow
that really isn't???

Cheers to you all,
James





On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:18 AM, <w.james.meagher@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!)
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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.
>
> Simon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wjamesmeagher
> To: <CZsynth%40yahoogroups.com>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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