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Re: pitch bend cz1
2016-11-12 by smw-mail@...
Some footnotes about the CZ-3000/CZ-5000:
The CZ-3000 (at least the one I used) had the CZ-5000's sequencer memory. You could access it via sysex (send and receive). The CZ-3000 couldn't do anything with it--other than store and retrieve the data. It was handy as a backup of a sequencer, though.
Via sysex manipulation (using a hex editor) you could do cool things with the CZ-5000's sequencer, including:
--enter durations smaller than available through the front panel
--set the polyphony of tracks to zero so that the note data of the sequencer would go out via midi without using any of the internal voices.
As I recall, the sequencer's sysex dump starts with a map of track parameters (including pointers) followed by the track data.
I have an original MT cable which also has tape pause jack to control a cassette tape transport. (If your site has a schematic or photos of the wiring with that, I didn't see it). Getting the recording of the FSK data to and from tape had to be within a range of parameters. I seem to recall, it had to be high, but not too high; and IIRC AGC had to be off.
I do recall successfully using an early version of windows media player (possibly in win 3.1 or maybe win 98) to play back FSK data I "digitized" from an analog cassette created from the MT (aka Magnetic Tape) connection.
Anyhow, thanks for the site--it looks like you did some nice work with the drawings and photos.
Steve