Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Yes, it's so as you have written. I also think that the last Yamaha  
interesting synth is FS1r (which is what I have written). After 1998  
they offer only Motif...

Daniel Forro


On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Daniel Boles db0451@... [CZsynth]  
wrote:

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> Yes but what you call "newer" here simply means 90s/early 00s,  
> instead of the 80s - sadly time continues to move faster than me/us,  
> and so the 90s and 00s are not 'new' any more ;-)
>
> What has there been in the recent decade or so, in hardware, that is  
> really revolutionary? Maybe some of the more clever soft synths -  
> but hardware seems to be on the way out ( - aside from all these,  
> mostly boring, overpriced machines to appease all the people who  
> think everything must be analogue to be valid - )
>
> Especially Yamaha, who you quoted, have only done boring ROMplers  
> since about 2002 or whenever they cancelled the FS1R. Sadly! Since,  
> indeed, they were really on a roll from the 80s to early 00s, with  
> so many great, diverse, and innovative systems.
>
> I guess Casio's newer machines with the VA and Hex Layer stuff were  
> kinda cool, although still no new synth types (as PD was in its day  
> - although ripped off from an older patent by Yamaha!)