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Re: CZ5000 Sequence Data
2017-01-21 by smw-mail@...
Anyhow, I was will be setting up my CZ so I don't have to move it to test. That will make it easier! I also want to make some time to take some sample screen shots of your wav data since it is different than my tests and the tinyloops sample. I am wondering what mine from decades ago look like. Yours are more like triangle or sawtooth; the others are closer to square waves with noise on the upper and lower peaks of the pulse wave. I am not sure if that is from being recorded with AGC or NR originally or on playing back while making the wav or from tape degradation over time. If I can find my tapes, that might shed light on the possibility of the wave shape changing from tape degradation.
If you have some user banks I can load up, that would be helpful to monitor the sequences. I thought I had some CZ sysex banks, but all I can find are my CZ-1 banks. Those should work; so if you don't have or can't find yours, I will load in the CZ-1 banks (or some banks from the files section).
If the original MT data tapes were done in stereo, please make the wav files as stereo, since one track might be more pure than the other. If there is noise reduction or other signal modification on the tape player/deck you are using to make the wav files, if possible turn that off--unless the original had NR and the deck is uncoding it now.
Zipping a batch of files should make downloading easier and should affect the wav files.
As for the tape hum, I also got that when I did a direct from CZ to laptop transfer. I will move the CZ to an XP tower to see if that reduces the hum and will try a pre-audio version of cakewalk software to record the midi data into a midi file. (I will also see if I have some batteries for the CZ.)
Steve