Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

And sadly, if you sell it, you won't get much for it.  So you might as well keep it and learn to make sounds!  To be fair, if you have a bit of practice, making sounds is not THAT time consuming.  But then again, I guess most would consider me an expert at it considering I've had over 10 years with my VZ.  :)

Can someone please post a list of sites which offer FREE (and hopefully GOOD) patches for the VZ?  I would like to compare my programming with that of others.  I recently heard some unidentified 3rd party sounds which was pretty unimpressive.  Though, at the same time, I remember making similarly lame sounds in the past.  The bottom line with this and most other synths is that it has it's strengths and weaknesses.  I think I make fewer lame sounds now because I know what sounds NOT to attempt using my VZs!

Also, does anyone else here have multiple VZ's?  They are so cheap you could have a whole rack of them for less than what some of these fancy new synths cost!  

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  Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Newbie with a VZ1


  >I have a SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum midi interface on my PC and the
  >required midi cables but don't know what software to use. My system
  >is running WindowsXP. Can someone steer me in the right direction on
  >how to program this keyboard? What software to use?

  the closest you're going to get to a piano is something that will make you 
  say "well, it sort of sounds like a piano."  It isn't really made for 
  pianos.  It's made for electronic music programmer nerds (like me) that like 
  to spend 3 hours staring at the display and pushing buttons to get the sound 
  perfect.  You can download sounds that other people have made but likely 
  you're not going to find anything terribly impressive as far as "real 
  instrument sounds" go.  If you want to mess with that, there's a program 
  here:  http://www.steveandsally.freeserve.co.uk/casio/software.htm

  If you just want acoustic sounds, not funny space sounds, you're probably 
  not going to like it.  and if you try programming you're probably asking for 
  a headache.  The VZ-1 can make a lot of lovely sounds (much better than the 
  lousy preset sounds that you've been hearing), but it takes a lot of effort 
  to get there, and it's really no good for emulating other instruments.  
  probably you should sell it and get something that sounds realistic.

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Hi Czvz,

> Can someone please post a list of sites which offer FREE (and hopefully
GOOD) patches for the VZ?  I would like to compare my programming with that
of others.

Are there any? As the VZs were never really popular (like eg the Korg M1,
yuck). I would really
like some fresh sounds. I just googled the following:

http://www.synthzone.com/midi/casio/vz/
http://www.unmusic.freeserve.co.uk/synth.html (no patches, one sampled *.sf2
banks)
http://www.memi.com/makers/hwsw/downloads/sounds/vz-basics1_einfo.html
http://www.djmanne.de/SoundsPatches.html

That is not much.

> Also, does anyone else here have multiple VZ's?  They are so cheap you
could have a whole rack of them for less than what some of these fancy new
synths cost!

No, I have only a HS2/e (same as VZ10m). Well, considering that you get 64
voice polyphony
in a 900 buck synth today, a VZ should cost no more than 100 dollars or
euros...

Hellmuth

Here's my bank...

http://users.ev1.net/~xpander/smccfiles.html

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 02:21 PM, msg_matucana wrote:

> Hi Czvz,
>
>> Can someone please post a list of sites which offer FREE (and 
>> hopefully
> GOOD) patches for the VZ?  I would like to compare my programming with 
> that
> of others.
>
> Are there any? As the VZs were never really popular (like eg the Korg 
> M1,
> yuck). I would really
> like some fresh sounds. I just googled the following:
>
> http://www.synthzone.com/midi/casio/vz/
> http://www.unmusic.freeserve.co.uk/synth.html (no patches, one sampled 
> *.sf2
> banks)
> http://www.memi.com/makers/hwsw/downloads/sounds/vz-basics1_einfo.html
> http://www.djmanne.de/SoundsPatches.html
>
> That is not much.

> Also, does anyone else here have multiple VZ's?  They are so cheap 
>you could have a whole rack of them for less than what some of these 
>fancy new synths cost!  

I can't imagine anyone having more than one VZ in a rack?
http://www.geocities.com/orbitaldecay_99/cz1.html

Now if I could just get that twangy organic string pluck sound I get 
from the CZ series, i would be in heaven with all of that real time 
control. VZ8M is my favorite as it actually can do the pitch bend 
release. Can't seem to get that on the VZ-1 or VZ10M.

Terry (The Casio Kid)

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Terry <orbitaldecay@h...>" 
<orbitaldecay@h...> wrote:
>  
> > Also, does anyone else here have multiple VZ's?  They are so 
cheap 
> >you could have a whole rack of them for less than what some of 
these 
> >fancy new synths cost!  
> 
> I can't imagine anyone having more than one VZ in a rack?
> http://www.geocities.com/orbitaldecay_99/cz1.html
> 
> Now if I could just get that twangy organic string pluck sound I 
get 
> from the CZ series, i would be in heaven with all of that real 
time 
> control. VZ8M is my favorite as it actually can do the pitch bend 
> release. Can't seem to get that on the VZ-1 or VZ10M.
> 
> Terry (The Casio Kid)

Thanks for the links! I'll play around with those for now. I have 
CubaseVST which came with my Audigy so those syx files will come in 
handy