Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I posted the folllowing a while back on the Nord forum, under the topic of "Favourite Synths". I'm not exactly certain why the 101 worked for me and the CZ-1 didn't, but here we go:

"I eventually added a Casio CZ-101 to my rig and became quite adept at programming it, primarily with imitative sounds, from percussion to guitars, saxes and steel drums. Somewhere I still have a ring-binder full of patch-sheets that I created. Along with the preset CT-202, the CZ-101 was my main synth for many years. You can hear some of the music I made with those two Casios here. 

"About 12 years ago it stopped working, and I replaced it with a second-hand CZ-1, with a full-size 5-octave keyboard, 16-note polyphony and velocity and after-touch. All my old patches worked fine, but somehow the magic was gone. I wasn't too upset when it got stolen a few years later."

Simon Beck

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