Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Anybody have midiquest 9.1 working with the VZ10m?  Any tips?  I can't 
seem to get a dump of the contents of my VZ10m into midiquest, not sure 
what I am missing.

Help?

Thanks,

Hi Chris,

 I have Midiquest 9.1 but I don't have a VZ (yet). My CZ1 did not work 
with MQ 9.1 and they sent me a new updated profile that allowed me to 
capture all 64 patches. All I did was e-mail support and they worked 
with me. They mentioned Casio's sysex doc's were quite sketchy for all 
these synths. The great news is I've since been working with them to 
rewrite the CZ-1 profile. I've sent all the sysex for the Patch Names, 
Velocity for DCO,DCW,DCA, and the biggie all the sysex for the 
Operation Memories. This was quite a task that involved a bunch of time 
but it will be worth it to be able to use MQ with every aspect of this 
synth... 
 To make things short try to contact them through support if they won't 
help contact me offlist and I'll try to see what can be done.

Casio PD's forever, Narfman

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "dodgingrain" <Chris@...> wrote:
>
> Anybody have midiquest 9.1 working with the VZ10m?  Any tips?  I 
can't 
> seem to get a dump of the contents of my VZ10m into midiquest, not 
sure 

> what I am missing.
> 
> Help?
> 
> Thanks,
>

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "narfman96" <narfman96@...> wrote:

>  I have Midiquest 9.1 . . . . They mentioned Casio's sysex doc's
> were quite sketchy for all these synths. . . .

This is very surprising to hear. I thought Casio's sysex documentation 
was clearly spelled out and available (even it it was quirky). In 
fact, I got started on sysex with the Casio CZ System Exclusive Guide. 

Do you know what caused them problems? Just wondering.

--Steve

Re: CZ-1 sysex

I just got out my CZ-1 sysex manual and realize perhaps it was never 
published.  I have one that I got from Casio Product Support decades 
ago. It is a photo copy and has Japanese written on it. I always 
assumed this was an advanced copy that was undergoing proofreading 
for final publication.  I can't believe I am the only one who has 
this document.

It is set in the same type as the Nov. 1985 CZ MIDI Guide. (I 
thought I shared some of the contents from this over the years.)

Anyhow, send request 3 gets you the op-mems:

F0 44 00 00 7n 12 dd . . . F7 
(following the same handshaking protocol for earlier CZs -- CZ 
ack/reply/F7)

Of course, to send the opmem data, the 6th byte is 22
(Same pattern for Casio CZ send/receive requests.)

Sorry you had to spend time trying to figure it all out.

I believe the CZ-1 also has some sysex commands not in prior CZs. I 
will have to do a comparison to tell you which. In case you haven't 
figured it out, you can switch CZ-1 modes via sysex.  Here's the 
command:

F0 44 00 00 7n 4D dd F7 where dd is as follows:

Normal mode - 00h
Tone mix mode - 20h
Key split mode - 40h
Op-Mem - 60h

You can move the cursor via sysex, select menu pages, turn multi-
mode on and off, choose the number of poly, set the pitch of tone 2 
(tone mix mode), set the split point, enable and disable the sustain 
pedal, turn chorus on and off, and a couple of other things.

Perhaps the reason why the folks at Midiquest said the sysex was 
sketchy was because they didn't have the sysex manual.

Do you still need the layout of the Op-Mem data formats for the 3 
modes?

--Steve

Here's the start of it.  Looks like I got too tired to type it all 
in.

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CZsynth/message/2014

BTW, I searched the archives for: steve cz-1 sysex to find this 
message.

Again, sorry you had to spend time trying to figure it out. The 
info's been here for almost 2 years!  (Sorry if you asked for help 
with CZ-1 sysex before and I didn't reply.)

--Steve


--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" wrote:

> 
> Do you still need the layout of the Op-Mem data formats for the 3 
> modes?
> 
> --Steve
>

I don't know anything about using midiquest, so I can't help out 
there.  A while ago I posted a couple of problem/solutions for 
getting the VZ to do bulk transfers based on the error message 
received.  Not sure this applies to your situation, but in any case, 
give it a look:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CZsynth/message/2289

--Steve
 

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "dodgingrain" <Chris@...> wrote:
>
> Anybody have midiquest 9.1 working with the VZ10m?  Any tips?  I 
can't 
> seem to get a dump of the contents of my VZ10m into midiquest, not 
sure 

> what I am missing.
> 
> Help?
> 
> Thanks,
>