Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I must have given the wrong impression in my original post.

So keep your CZs since this plug-in isn't even remotely a 
replacement...

I wasn't saying that this was by any means a replacement for or even an attempt at emulating a CZ. What I said was that it seems to be inspired by the CZ synth. I am excited by this synth as it is a step away from analogue modeling subtractive softsynths and that IMO is a step in the right direction. There are obviously more things lacking in this than it has in common with the CZ but I've yet to find something from a commercial outfit that truly departs from the tried and true synth formula like the PlastiCZ does. reFX may not be in the same league as Native Instruments or Steinberg but the products they produce are of a very high standard and they are developing inovative new instruments instead of following the rest of the developers. If you don't think reFX cut it, try out the quadraSID and get back to me.
It seems from the responses here that I am by no means alone in my anxious search for a capable softsynth that can compare to the CZ synth. I long for eight stage envelopes on DCA, DCW and most importantly DCO. Why haven't VSTi developers realised how important it is to be able to control the pitch of every osc with the same accuracy as the amp or filter? why why why.
I am however very pleased with this little plastiCZ synth. It can achieve sounds that I have only ever been able to get on my CZ, the new Virsyn TERA (a very good softsynth) or after lengthy sessions programming the FM7 but the plastiCZ can acheive these sound very quickly and easily as the parameters available are geared toward those type of sounds. I think that we should celebrate this step in the evolution of softsynths and await the next rather than being down on what is a very unassuming yet IMHO pleasing little synth. 
I must also say that I strongly disagree with somma about the sound quality of this synth. It is very good and the FX are by no means what make the pleasing sounds they are mearly a sweetener to some very strong synthesis. I still highly recommend it and know that It will become one of my most often used synths as it offers such unique (in the VSTi domain) sounds. 
On a different note Maxim wrote:
20ms is something I get on my system, and it's not tight enough
if you use more than one instrument, i.e. outboard gear as well as
soft synth. Adjusting MIDI delays is very hard and unreliable.
20 ms is heck of a lot of delay. Let's say I use 80ms as proper
delay in my song -- 20ms is 25% of that...

I agree 20ms is nearly good enough but don't quite cut it. Anything under 20ms feels passable to me. I have a Delta44 sound card and using the latest WDM version drivers I get asio latency as low as 2ms. I tend to go with 8ms as I get marginaly better performance sound wise. I find 8ms more than acceptable. The latency you get from softsynths relies mostly on the quality of the asio drivers for your sound card. I don't think It depends on the software/sequencer you use so long as it supports asio drivers.  
Anyway thanks for all the responses and the honest opinions I may not agree with but I do respect them.
Cheers,
dan



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