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Re: [CZsynth] Re: choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Jason Adkins

Hi Simon,

Another good reason for buying a CZ101 is because it doesn't have a  
velocity/aftertouch keyboard which is money saved,in my experience  
they are expensive and a pig to fix,not just Casio all of  
them,sometimes less is more.....

J

On 5 Nov 2012, at 12:21, Simon Beck wrote:

> 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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