Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I use the standard D plug to DIN plugs on Win98 - but a USB link on the laptop - which was a cheap buy from ebay and works okay.
On Charles's suggestion I got hold of an Atari because it has MIDI built in and supports DX/CZ - as suggested getting the software from PC to Atari needs floppy transfer,which itself can be a pain as they are 720Kb disks on the Atari and have to be formatted correctly (Charles has the lowdown on this).
I have to say having looked at the MIDI system on the Atari and the CX5m,they are not the easiest things to communicate with programming wise - and come to that neither is the PC.

Sounds a bit odd that SYSx is only traveling in one direction,and that the cable would be the source of the problem. 




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 From: Jason Adkins <jason_ralf808@...>
To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, 19 August 2013, 21:47
Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: Can't get sysex to work with a CZ-5000
 


  
Buy an Atari ST and download CZ-Android which is a free download from 
here:- http://tamw.atari-users.net/ (yes loads of artists still use 
these they are hardly pretty to look on screen nowadays and will have 
to use floppies to transfer to it (unless modified)

Or yes the older PCi/E cards which run on all versions of XP will work 
i.e. emu404, the other one that works and will work fine on a mac is 
the Edirol UA-4fx usb box (cheap on ebay) anyway try:- http://www.midiox.com/

On 19 Aug 2013, at 21:00, steve_the_composer wrote:

> This is so odd--evidently your usb-midi cable receives sysex from 
> the CZ but doesn't send it to the CZ. As I understand what we have 
> discussed, the cable sends and receives note data and continuous 
> controller data.
>
> As for me, I have some older MOTU parallel port midi interfaces as 
> well as an e-mu 2x2 (usb) interface. I also have an older emagic mt4 
> (usb) interface that used to work with Windows XP SP1, but somewhere 
> around SP2 or SP3 it stopped working.
>
> By any chance are you handy with simple circuits and simple 
> programming? If so, you could build your own usb-midi interface with 
> a microprocessor such as an arduino.
>
> If you have a free PCI slot, you could get a PCI-based midi card, or 
> a sound card with a joystick port and a midi/joystick cable. I would 
> think that any $3.00 card should work--but maybe someone has one 
> lying around that they don't use. I'm not sure how much the midi/ 
> joystick cables are going for these days.
>
> Of course, it is possible that the problem is in the CZ.
>
> Steve
>
> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "dedlandar" <dedlandar@...> wrote:
>>
>> Nothing happens when I transmit the glide on command back to the CZ.
>>
>> What kind of MIDI>USB cable are you guys using?
>>
>>
>>
>> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, it means that the CZ can transmit sysex (at least the glide 
>>> command) and your PC can receive it. What happens when you turn 
>>> the glide off and then try to transmit the captured glide on 
>>> command back to the CZ?
>>
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