Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the introduction. I have been on your website many times before, and have the table hooters section bookmarked. I am also interested in some of the old home keyboards, but perhaps not so devoted as you. I go on your website from time to time to read your opinion of some old keyboard.

I have also checked out the videos on your YouTube channel where you build up a track using looping and several different home keyboards. They are very entertaining, thanks for sharing.

As to the question, I am no expert on the subject, but I haven't heard of a serious attempt to get all the ROMs and then truly emulate the CZ sound engine. I believe I have seen attempts to mimic the synthesis style using some other software. But I can't even remember where I may have seen that.

I have heard people wish they had the ability to edit the firmware, to enable some killer feature, but I don't think that has happened yet.

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler" <cowindler01@...> wrote:
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> Hello, I am collector of music keyboards and electronic sound toys and partly modify them into synthesizers. Here is my keyboard site:
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> http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/index.html
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> I have bought an eprommer ("Willem PRO4 isp",had unfortunately defective transistors and other flaws I had to fix) and started to dump EPROMs and ROMs of my keyboard collection. And I am happy to find here the SK-1,SK-5 and SK-8 ROMs here, so I don't need to desolder these by myself.
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> I am mainly into analogue/squarewave Casios, so my only CZ keyboard is a CZ-230S. I have uploaded its ROM contents if anybody needs to fight bitrot to repair one. You also may extract the 8 bit sample percussion or the PD synthesis parameters of the original 100 preset sounds from it.
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> - Has anybody tried yet to make an emulator (similar like MAME) for Casio keyboards?
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> E.g. Casiotone 401 and MT-40 are controlled by an Intel MCS-48 microcontroller which ROM I successfully dumped. So at least the accompaniment section would be possible to emulate yet. Robin Whittle (firstpr.com) found out much about the Consonant-Vowel synthesis main voice sound ICs in early Casios, which would be useful to emulate them. Also the various Casio calculator emulators on the internet could be useful to understand what kinds of special CPUs Casio has
> used.
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