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Re: [CZsynth] Re: CZ5000 Sequence Data
2017-01-21 by smw-mail@...
Looking at FSK waves and having just read about them, my guess is that they should be pulse waves--even the CZ patch banks. I first assumed that because the header on the one you sent was at a lower level than the data portion it was due to either AGC or NR of come type, but maybe it was caused by something else. As for the non-squared [with noise] peaks I was thinking that tape degradation would not do that so consistently. I am curious to see what my tapes look like. I can't imagine that I threw them out, but they were not with my old music tapes.
The CZ-5000 was my first home commercial synth (1980s) which was coupled with delay echo from a reel-to-reel tape recorder. With digital FX in a more-or-less contemporary sound card (with E-Mu's PatchMix software), I have recreated something like the R-to-R delay echo. If I can find my old tapes and CZ patches, it might be fun to redo some of my old tunes and improvs.
Looking forward to figuring out how to best play your tunes into a sequencer--assuming the wav/MT loading goes OK. SONAR X-1 was the last version of the Cakewalk sequencer that runs on XP. It can save to several midi formats MIDI 0 and MIDI 1 and something I never knew about RIFF MIDI 0 and 1.
What sequencer do you have? What midi formats can it accept? If you have any sort of cakewalk sequencer, I should be able to output it as a *.wrk file (or a *.cwp file).
I have been thinking of re-doing some of my "ancient" tunes, so this is the perfect opportunity to take that off the back burner--at least as far as my CZ tunes. But as much as I would like to create my own CZ samples [like for a sampler], that will have to wait. There are several banks of CZ samples out there, but not my custom CZ patches!
Steve
PS: If other member of the list (or the owner) are not really interested in all this about the CZ-5000, we could go to e-mail. Personally, I am comfortable sharing these processes with then group, Maybe in another 30 years someone else will want to convert CZ MT data tapes. I won't be around, but maybe Yahoo! Groups will.