Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hello,

I am new here and am hoping to find some answers. I own a CZ-1000 and 
a CZ-5000 WOW! I believe they sound great, I have a couple of 
Yamaha's a DX 100 and a DX27 and think the Casio's sound better to be 
honest. Much more like the old anaolg sounds like I got out of my old 
korg MS20 from way too many years ago.

Anyways, here's is my first question.

I have four menory cartridges called EZ-CZ and they have two little 
switches to the left top of the cartridge. What is the purpose of 
these two switches? They slide giving you what appears to be four 
different settings but I can't figure they do and what they are for?
I looked through the archives and couldn't get a hit on the functions 
of these switches so thought I would ask - THANKS!!!

If anyone knows please let me know.

Most sincerely
RW

www.thewhitefeilds.com

I used to have one.  I may still have it somewhere.  As I recall, on 
the CZ101/CZ1000 you have 4 possibilities for storing banks of either 
8 or 16 patches (not sure whethere its 8 or 16):  AA, AB, BA, BB.  On 
the CZ3000/CZ5000 you have two possibilities for storing either 16 or 
32 patches.  The other two settings flip the order of the 1/2 banks.

I seem to recall the hump takes a couple of AA batteries.

My gut says its 4 banks of 16 on the CZ101/CZ1000 and 2 banks of 32 
on the CZ3000/CZ500.

If there are decent presets on the carts, I recommend saving the 
patches to a computer (sysex dump) before overwriting them.

Perhaps they are ones that were sold by a sound designer.  I am not 
sure if Andy Schleisenger used the EZ-CZ carts to market his sounds.  
I seem to recall seeing his name somewhere somewhere on the internet 
over the past 5 years.

Are the labels on the carts?  If so, is there anything written on 
them?

Out of curiosity, how much did they cost?

BTW, I seem to recall you needed to power down the CZ before 
inserting or removing the carts to prevent possible electronic 
damange.

Hope this helps.

Dr. Steve

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Whitaker" <rlwblues@r...> 
wrote:

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> I have four menory cartridges called EZ-CZ and they have two little 
> switches to the left top of the cartridge. What is the purpose of 
> these two switches? They slide giving you what appears to be four 
> different settings but I can't figure they do and what they are for?