Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I looked at Synth Site and found a link to MT-68 demos.
http://www.audiva-music.de/casio.shtml
(Is he on this list?)

I found the music very very amusing to me. Not only being an analog keyboard, 
its drums also analog! (Further, it may be filtered?)
Sorry for being openly excited... (Jon, you liked it secretly...)
Some presets may not be good, but the hardware itself seems to be very 
cool... Analog is what is admired today. CASIO made it very cool, cheap, 
compact, and especially, in a funny design... 


Best,
Sealed

HZ/HT page 
http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/ht3000.html


> I'm 100% sure that the MT is not PCM, it just sounds too bad! The MT-
68 is
> not really editable but each sound may be set at one of three different
> envelope settings. The first setting is just the preset setting which 
makes
> the tones sound like bad emulations of real instruments and the other 
two
> settings seem to introduce weird envelopes to the filter and amp circuits.
> Usually line select settings 2 and 3 are next to useless musically 
but are
> good for some weirdo type sounds. 
> 
>  
> 
> I always secretly liked the rhythm section though, I always thought 
that it
> would be cool to MIDI it up somehow......  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sealed [mailto:sealed@...] 
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 2:34 PM
> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [CZsynth] New HZ/HT page
> 
>  
> 
> Before PCM ruled the world, many cheap keyboards were actually analog.
> I hear some CASIO MT series used SD synthesis like HZ/HT. Maybe, HZ/
HT 
> are versions of Casiotones with extended ability to edit its sound. 
I 
> don't know what H means, but T of HT might represent casioTone.
> 
> And you say MT-68 is editable, and I suppose it should be great. Yes, 
> nasty and cool, and it may generate quite similar sounds as HZ/HT.
> 'Line select' attracts me much. What kind of function is it?
> 
> Around that time, sound editing capability was much favored. CASIO 
and 
> YAMAHA produced some editable pop keyboards (Notably, some YAMAHAs 
can 
> be edited via MIDI). Good old days for synths...
> 
> 
> Sealed
> 
> 
> > I listened to your HT sound samples last night and just from the 
sound 
> of
> > them I'd have to say that they sounded a lot like the sound set on 
> my old
> > Casio MT-68, which must have been form the early or mid 80's. I think 
> that
> > that keyboard used some kind of hard wired analog algorithms to do 
> it's
> > thing and also had a line select feature. Come to think of it the 
MT-
> 68 was
> > an odd little beast also. Very nasty sounding but also kind of cool. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Jon  
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