Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Welcome to the CZ Nate. The CZ is an excellent synth to learn sound
programming on. It was my first synth also (way back in '85) and I still
love it. I think that the problem that you're having with tuning is because
you are actually fooling with the key transpose function. This will change
the key that the keyboard plays in, not tune the instrument. I think that
the tuning buttons are over on the upper left hand corner of the front panel
and have little up and down arrows on them. Just push one down and you'll
get a slight increment in tuning. You can also send a MIDI command to the CZ
from a PC to set the tuning. Stick with the patch programming on the CZ as
you can learn a lot on this instrument. It's kind of a cross between and
analog and a digital, programming wise, so what you learn here will apply to
a lot of other synths.  Don't get too spoiled by the 8 stage envelopes
though, most other synths don't have them. As to why that is I don't
know...I just credit it as being one of those mysteries of life....  


Jon

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	john w. [SMTP:spookytrees@...]
	Sent:	Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:14 PM
	To:	CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
	Subject:	[CZsynth] hello

	Hi everybody,

	I was reading over the old messages on the yahoo site,
	and I thought that this would be an excellent group to
	join!  I got my Casio CZ-1000 off of Ebay sometime
	this past fall or winter.  It's my first synth, and I
	thought that it would be a good way to get some patch
	programing down.  I've had mixed luck with programing
	patches, most of the ones that I've made from scratch
	haven't ended up working.  I've also some trouble with
	the tuning of the instrument...  it seems that on the
	master tune that C is too flat, and that C# is too
	sharp!  Is that just me, or is anybody else
	experiencing that?  I use the CZ-1000 mostly with my
	band, Tomorrow's Retro Future. 
	http://www.angelfire.com/art/trf   But I also use it
	on my solo stuff.  I don't have any way of getting
	patches from the computer onto the synth, because CZ
	Librarian (mac) crashes my computer.  So, anyway, if
	anybody has any cool analog or 80s sounding patches
	that they have typed into their computer, I'd really
	apreciate it if you could send them to me!

	Nate

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