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Re: choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by k9k9dog

if you get a cz101 you will fall in love with it instantly. it is a plastic classic! but try to get a RA3 RAM cartridge with it, as it doubles the number of

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Jason Adkins

Oh and I forgot the Sequential Circuits Remote and that weird black thing which had no long left trad fretboard just really short with I guess a couple of

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Jason Adkins

he he he, Yeah If I wanted to put a CZ1000 around my neck/shoulder or the other one that I forgot the Poly800, I d have to be a olympic disc thrower or

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SV: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by KW

i think the 101 model is more tasteful because of the programming interface. those buttons on other cz models are just horrible to listen to when programming

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Lee Borrell

Don t forget the RA ram cards for extra (double) storage space - sometimes crop up on ebay. ________________________________ From: José Ángel Morente

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by José Ángel Morente

The VZ1 is a different machine. It cannot reproduce the original CZ sounds although it s a more powerful synthesizer. I own both the CZ and VZ and I love them.

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Lee Borrell

Yes - the 230 and the 1000 also have the strap buttons - but you are liable to get a neck injury using those. As it happens I like being an 80s ponce,which is

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Jason Adkins

Hi Lee, I forgot to mention on my reply you can also put the CZ101 around your neck with a normal guitar strap if you want to look like some eighties

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Lee Borrell

It seems you have worked out some of the problems for yourself- the 101 has proper facia buttons and is portable.The MIDI implementation on both is the same -

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Re: [CZsynth] choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by Jason Adkins

Get the CZ101,It has no internal battery to leak all over the motherboard (it uses normal batteries for everything) the CZ1000 is the same machine but has full

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Re: choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-05 by jpshea

Hi Marco, Consider how many voices you need at once. For example, the CZ-1 has 8 notes which can be split across 8 different voices (e.g. simultaneously, you

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choice of a CZ synth

2012-11-04 by mm47

Hi all, I m new to this group! I intend to buy a CZ soon (probably on ebay) as I started to love their sound (heard on some youtube videos). I might also

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Re: [CZsynth] CZ5000

2012-11-02 by Daniel Forró

Let me guess.... Maybe Files section of this yahoogroup? ... I think I have found also some sounds by googling them (Casio CZ patches, or similar). Thanks to

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-11-01 by Lee Borrell

The RZ1 sounds are pretty similar to the other PCM sounds Casio used,for my money the reason to have it was the sampler function.Even the RX5 which I picked up

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-10-31 by Jason Adkins

Hi Peter,you were obviously a precocious little brat like me......lol I have a R50e I love it pretty editable too.The DMX/DX/Drumtraks all sound much of a

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CZ5000

2012-10-31 by Christopher K Moffatt

Hi All, I have a CZ5000 and was wondering where is best to get some sounds please. Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Re: RZ1

2012-10-31 by analogmonster@ymail.com

Alot of drum machines of the era can have multiple roms in them, and most have had their formats decoded so you can have custom samples. Ive seen Alesis hr16,

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-10-30 by charlie midi gfa

no exactily like a roland sampler , but has a drum machine attached , i see you may not know of the mks-100 by roland i think i will look for rz-1 wav files

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-10-30 by Lee Borrell

I have done my best to collect as much retro as possible - RZ1 is included. Charles is almost correct - like a lot of samplers Casio made - there are 4

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-30 by Jason Adkins

Yeah lol or not prepared to spend the money on a technician cause its not worth anything really like me. I have only used my friends FZ1 (in which we tried to

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-10-30 by Jason Adkins

Yeah it wore thin with me too,but certainly different I used it on a few published tracks I used to have the sound I wanted to use already on another sampler

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-10-30 by Peter Sedin

I bought one when they firts came out.. my first drum machine, i was 13 i think.. did some early techno tracks with it. I learned sampling on it :) ye it had a

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IUMA is back, kind of.

2012-10-29 by Mats Öljare

Apparently Archive.org has put up many (or all?) of the stuff that was on IUMA when it was shut down in 2004, including my own sites. Plenty of stuff on here i

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Re: [CZsynth] RZ1

2012-10-27 by charlie midi gfa

if i had 150 $ id buy one , , but the novelity has worn thin ,, i too admire the thin rasp-ie sounds this beast makes , and i think it has two sample spaces

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-27 by Jason Adkins

Hi Jack/Jammie, The battery is new I put it on a meter 3.6v,the ram is new and they both work in the 2.7ghz Dual G5 which I had to buy to replace the 1.8ghz

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-27 by jack

check the 3.3v on the ram modules to see if your getting 3.3v on all or if there is a drop in voltage the backup battery for the motherboard rom is this ok as

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-27 by Jason Adkins

Actually I have just tried it totally without ram and it is flashing two lights which means no ram fitted so it must be recognising the ram when it is fitted

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-27 by Jason Adkins

What gets me about the bloody G5 dual 1.8mhz is that it has 8 dimm sockets and I have tried every combination with ram I know is working and still it doesn t

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-27 by jack

i have a proper reflow oven the pcb goes on a conveyer timed temperature controled its best used for surface mount boards and solder paste or boards that have

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RZ1

2012-10-27 by Jason Adkins

Has anybody here got an RZ1,I still love those bizzare hi-hats,clap and cowbell:-

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CZ/JX8P

2012-10-26 by Jason Adkins

Jammie, as an addendum to last mail I love the JX8P and could do some quite CZ sounds DCO etc but either attack envelopes or midi on them was appallingly slow

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-26 by Jason Adkins

I take it you have done a similar thing yourself then Jammie,let me guess some clients expensive synthesizer board? I d give it a go but knowing me I probably

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-26 by charlie midi gfa

i think thats just a solution a person could perform if they were in jail , normal people might take it to a service technician.. i really have no insight

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Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m

2012-10-26 by Jason Adkins

Hiya, Trust me if you have used a DSS-1 it is a synth more than a sampler it has f**k all memory for a start but enough to sample analogue waveforms in and

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-26 by jammie

thats what they do in a re flow oven ... From: Jason Adkins To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re:

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-26 by Jason Adkins

Hi Charles, ;) You did well there I messed about with the internals of a floppy once and I made a right pigs breakfast of it. Its funny you should mention the

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Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m

2012-10-25 by Francis Cote

Are you guys really going to compare a Jupiter 8 and a dss-1? Come on. They are 2 very different beasts. Even if it uses different tricks, everything ends up

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Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m

2012-10-25 by Jez

Just a point of comparison really. I havn t seen a working JP8 for under 2000 bucks for years, but a DSS1 seems to go for about 1/10th of that at the most. And

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Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m

2012-10-25 by jammie

absolute rubbish the dss1 is a sampler and can do much more than a jupiter 8 could ever do the vcf is way better and it has additive engine which can create

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Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m

2012-10-25 by Jez

The DSS-1 is basically a poor man s Jupiter 8, without the knobs but with waveform sampling and dual delays instead. The DSM-1 has more sampling memory and

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-25 by Jez

I see your point, but try Gmail - it keeps things a lot more readable. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:27 PM, steve_the_composer ... [Non-text portions of this

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Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-24 by steve_the_composer

I like watching the arrows ( ) grow and gradually disappear as I scroll through the digested posts typing to find where the next post starts. At first it

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-24 by K Davis

Frankly, while Charles may have a point about it being good form to start a new thread for tangential musings, I d be very unhappy about discouraging such

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-24 by charlie midi gfa

no , took my head out of the oven but seriousilly painfully re-alligned the read head manually, stoked , it is regained strenght!!!!!!! charles ... From:

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casio disk fvf disk trades

2012-10-24 by charlie midi gfa

i got my disk drive repaired and it now reads the old disks ,,anybody want some new samples..will trade for yours. charles

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Re: [CZsynth] Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-24 by charlie midi gfa

im bad for this too , but lets remmeber to address the originator of the thread and not the followers,,any side longed comments or items should have their own

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Re: casio fz10m

2012-10-23 by analogmonster@ymail.com

Yes, see my later post. No soldering required, it doesn t come in kit form. I would highly recommend the more expensive REV F 3.5 format version, rather

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