Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Over the years I have owned several cz keyboards.  I have never found 
a patch editor/librarian software that works correctly with my CZ's.  
One thing is that a lot of them use parameter values of 1-127 instead 
of 1-99 like the CZ.  My main problem however is this:  I create a 
patch in the editor software, I send it to the CZ and some of the 
patch data gets mixed up.  For example the vibrato rate or depth on 
the CZ show the proper values, but the vibrato sound is way off.  If I 
then change the vibrato values on the CZ by 1 digit and then back to 
the proper value, everything sounds fine.  I can send sysex files that 
I have downloaded from the web and they work fine, so I know it's not 
my CZ.  It must the editor software that I am using.  I have tried 
Unisyn, MidiQuest XL 9, Sound Diver and have tried some older apps 
that are difficult to run on my WIN XP laptop.  Does anyone know of a 
current software package that can really send and recieve properly to 
a CZ?  I am getting tired of spending money on a package that lists 
full support for Casio CZ, and then doesn't work right.  Any advice is 
welcome.

Hi,

welcome to the list... :-D

On 30 Jun 2007 at 12:40, David wrote:

> Over the years I have owned several cz keyboards.  I have never found 
> a patch editor/librarian software that works correctly with my CZ's.  
> One thing is that a lot of them use parameter values of 1-127 instead 
> of 1-99 like the CZ.  

Even so the CZ is not using all the avaiable bits, it's sending them, 
that's MIDI-Standard...

> My main problem however is this:  I create a 
> patch in the editor software, I send it to the CZ and some of the 
> patch data gets mixed up.  For example the vibrato rate or depth on 
Since this is usualy working, I'd check cables and interface and 
sending speed...

Hope this helps!


...Summa


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David

Some of the best CZ editors are from the same deep, dark ages past as
your synth.  There were several very good editors for the Atari
ST/Mega/Falcon/TT family of computers.  If you don't happen to have
one of these old systems, then you can get an emulator called STeem
that will run on you PC.  The editors have now been released to the
public so they are free.

Check out the following web site for the editor software and links to
the Atari emulators:
http://tamw.atari-users.net/

I still use my Atari do work with my CZ's, Mirage, and ESQ-M.  The
editors were great!

Larry T.

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "David" <cm470602@...> wrote:

>
> Over the years I have owned several cz keyboards.  I have never found 
> a patch editor/librarian software that works correctly with my CZ's.  
> One thing is that a lot of them use parameter values of 1-127 instead 
> of 1-99 like the CZ.  My main problem however is this:  I create a 
> patch in the editor software, I send it to the CZ and some of the 
> patch data gets mixed up.  For example the vibrato rate or depth on 
> the CZ show the proper values, but the vibrato sound is way off.  If I 
> then change the vibrato values on the CZ by 1 digit and then back to 
> the proper value, everything sounds fine.  I can send sysex files that 
> I have downloaded from the web and they work fine, so I know it's not 
> my CZ.  It must the editor software that I am using.  I have tried 
> Unisyn, MidiQuest XL 9, Sound Diver and have tried some older apps 
> that are difficult to run on my WIN XP laptop.  Does anyone know of a 
> current software package that can really send and recieve properly to 
> a CZ?  I am getting tired of spending money on a package that lists 
> full support for Casio CZ, and then doesn't work right.  Any advice is 
> welcome.
>