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Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m

2012-10-21 by Carl Lofgren

My apologies for being a bit stupid - but I thought the DSM was a rack version of the DSS - containing the same stuff? No analog filters in the DSM?

/C




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> From: Jason Adkins <jason_ralf808@...>
>To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 2:50 AM
>Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m
> 
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>You certainly seem to be doing some interesting stuff Jammie.
>I used to have briefly a DSM1,sorry I hated it nowhere near as good as 
>the DSS-1 no delay's and no analogue filters as standard without 
>f**king about with it (I''m no circuit bender sadly) sorry I love the 
>digital wave stuff but I'm still a tart when it comes to analogue 
>filters and the floppy on the DSM1 was a c**t. no wonder everybody and 
>his wife bought an Akai.
>
>I think I may have Turbosynth.... also you can do some interesting 
>stuff with Steinberg Avalon (Atari again).
>
>Sorry for truncated response my football team Norwich are on match of 
>the day in a moment which I want to watch, they beat Arsenal for the 
>first time at Carrow Road in 28 years today.
>
>J
>
>On 20 Oct 2012, at 22:38, jammie wrote:
>
>> i have loads of 8bit waves for the prophet vs
>>
>> we are working on new pcm cards for the wavestation so in the near 
>> future it will be possible to write new pcm data to the pcm card
>>
>> plus they are going to be 2-4mb switched in 512k banks
>>
>> get a dsm1 they are great same additive engine as the dss1 and it 
>> has 4 multitimbral so doing prophet vs sounds is easy
>>
>> but with samples so its more like a jd800/jd990 but with analog 
>> filters
>>
>> the dsm1 has 16 of the dss1 chips res is tied to ground but easy to 
>> cut a trace add a 100ohm resister for current limiting and adding a 
>> pot  to a 5v source this willgive good res but not self osc becuase 
>> you need 7v for that
>>
>> i used on one of my dsm1 machines with a doepfer midi to cv 
>> controller you get 16 midi cv outputs that can be set up to any midi 
>> cc control they are 0-5 v cv,s
>>
>> the emax uses the same type of system but you have 32 partials but 
>> you also get to do them on a table ppg style
>>
>> you choose various additive waveforms on this table then you set 
>> volume envelopes for each cycle in the table and pitch envelopes and 
>> the you interpolate from one single cycle to the other creating a 
>> spectral variating waveform like as if you were scanning the ppg 
>> wavetables
>>
>> the emax then creates this as a multisample and then you loop it or 
>> what ever to get good no clicking loops of this file you need to use 
>> the same single cycle additive waveform
>>
>> for slot one and the end slot
>>
>> the digidesign designed a software program that copied this and it 
>> could do it on a mac screen rather than use the tiny lcd
>>
>> it was called softsynth both for mac and atari
>>
>> then they did a better version called turbo synth both mac and atari
>>
>> i used to use it on the mirage as it did great wavetables like this 
>> and made it easy for looping
>>
>> i create transwaves the same way for ensoniqs as they can sweep them 
>> like the ppg
>>
>> i have done all the ppg
>>
>> the uwaveand wave which has 64 of them which also include the ppg 
>> but they sound different becuase the uwave and xt use half cycle 
>> waves then they compute the other half as a mirror image
>>
>> which is impossible to do with additive synthesis
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Jason Adkins
>>  To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>  Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:56 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m
>>
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>>
>>  Hi Jammie,
>>
>>  I have never used an Emax I think Francis Cote who post's on here has
>>  an Emax or 2 so he'd be a good guy to talk to.
>>  I'd love a DSS1 again but I havn't got the space now sadly (I used to
>>  keep all my gear around a friends house at the time) those things are
>>  f**king huge.
>>  Can you do a similar trick with a wavestation/prophet VS?
>>
>>  J
>>
>>  On 20 Oct 2012, at 21:33, jammie wrote:
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>>> and single cycle waves are the way to go with theses samplers the k3
>>> k5 k5000 ppg dss1 and the fz1 range all have additive sin synthesis
>>>
>>> but the neat trick on both the dss1 and the fz range is that you can
>>> link mix the additive waves to create a moving wavetable
>>>
>>> a bit like the emax spectral synth generation
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: jammie
>>> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:29 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> yes you can fit scsi its the card fitted to the fz20
>>>
>>> but you need a copy of the scsi floppy access software
>>>
>>> and charlie still needs to get a good working floppy drive
>>>
>>> the floppy emulator is cheaper than a replacement drive
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Jason Adkins
>>> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:19 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m
>>>
>>> I think the FZ1/10m/20m is worth the effort the synth section sounds
>>> superb,my friend used to use that all the time,the only other synth/
>>> sampler I have used which had the a similar function was the Korg
>>> DSS-1 (just usiing a slider) although there are a few programs for
>>> the
>>> Atari which allow you to draw a waveform as does the Roland samplers
>>> and the Fairlight of course.
>>> I think a PPG and possibly the Kawai K5 could do additive drawing
>>> using a slider too.
>>> I know the FZ10m could be fitted with scsi because I saw one in a
>>> studio in Islington London and I asked the engineer if I could have a
>>> look around the back because he was loading sounds to it from a Jaz
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> On 19 Oct 2012, at 00:18, charlie midi gfa wrote:
>>>
>>>> im sure the technicians will love me $$$ ,
>>>> and by now the prices of a
>>>> shugart to scsi adaptor has sky rocketed.....
>>>> so the raw image is it 1.68 Mb?
>>>> please go on jammie , do you use some of this technology personally?
>>>> i am interested adapting
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> charles
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Jason Adkins" <jason_ralf808@...>
>>>> To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:23 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I don't agree,I think the FZ10m had a scsi option too.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Oct 2012, at 19:43, jammie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> its the floppy emulator image software that does a raw image it
>>>>>> cant
>>>>>> be read by anything except the fz1/fz10/fz20
>>>>>>
>>>>>> there is no other programs that can write the floppy image back to
>>>>>> the floppy becuase its a different speed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> only the fz20 had scsi and its useless with out the floppy as 
>>>>>> its a
>>>>>> floppy disk access program has to be loaded sop that the fz20 can
>>>>>> use the scsi
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: Jason Adkins
>>>>>> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:35 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isn't there a PC program that will image FZ1/10m/20m floppies?
>>>>>> Is your FZ10m fitted with SCSI?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> J
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 17 Oct 2012, at 00:11, charlie midi gfa wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> so a little o.t.
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> anybody tell me what drive will work in a fz10m ,
>>>>>>> (cross reference the matsushita ju-255 )
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i can't find suitable drive or a indentical one to repair the
>>>>>>> fz10m
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> charles
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