Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

OK, Xmas are away, but I have sent all my sounds and docs about CZ and  
PD synthesis to this address:

http://www.uschovna.cz/en/package/H4I2TVY7JHWWYUIH-DH5

First thirty people are winners and can download it during the next 14  
days. Then maybe some other can send it again for the other who will  
be interested to get it.

Enjoy!

Method of reverse engineering is not bad, especially when there's some  
specialty or trick in the sound and we don't know how it was done. But  
anyway it's good to understand relations between different parameters,  
and which are important, and try to "decompose", guess, find all sound  
parameters roughly just from the hearing the sound. I think main  
points on CZ are:
- selection and combination of waveforms
- detune
- envelopes
- ring/noise modulation
- combinations of lines
- Tone Mix - combinations of sounds
- Solo mode + portamento

I've got Jupiter 6, too, it's nice synth with some interesting  
specialties.

Daniel Forro

On Feb 22, 2012, at 2:12 PM, w.james.meagher@... wrote:

> Hi,
> I haven't found any patch sheets online... But then I haven't really  
> looked either. What I recommend though is reverse engineering some  
> of the many SysEx patches you can find online. That's how I started.  
> My CZ1 was actually the first synth I ever learned to program. I  
> downloaded a bunch of SysEx patches online, went through them and  
> picked out a variety of different sounds and reverse-engineered them  
> by writing their every parameter setting onto patch sheets of my own  
> creation.
>
> I ended up using this technique to learn basic subtractive synthesis  
> when I got my Jupiter 6 soon after.
>
> Cheers,
> James