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and on that note...

and on that note...

2011-05-28 by jaytee.foster

As kind of a follow-up to my last post... if any is looking to off-load one of their CZs, I'd probably be interested. I have a line on a CZ-5000 for about $160 shipped, which seems like a decent deal, but I'm a bit more interested in a CZ-1 (for the nicer keyboard) or CZ-101 (for the size and supposed incredible lap steel guitar sounds) if I can find one. Then again, I'd jump at a 1000 or 3000 if the price was right. How it looks doesn't matter so much as long as it works right.

Just thought I'd put myself out there; figure it can't hurt. If I can't get a line on anything else in the next few days, I'll probably pull the trigger on that 5000. (Pray for me that I don't miss out on it by hemming and hawing.)

Re: [CZsynth] and on that note...

2011-05-28 by bill bigrig

Howdy,
 
 you might want to consider a Korg Poly 800. i worked with a guy once who got an incredible pedal steel sound out of it. It does require a volme pedal sweep while bending the pitch downward. Plus, there's a good mod out there giving you manual control of the filter.
Rig

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As kind of a follow-up to my last post... if any is looking to off-load one of their CZs, I'd probably be interested. I have a line on a CZ-5000 for about $160 shipped, which seems like a decent deal, but I'm a bit more interested in a CZ-1 (for the nicer keyboard) or CZ-101 (for the size and supposed incredible lap steel guitar sounds) if I can find one. Then again, I'd jump at a 1000 or 3000 if the price was right. How it looks doesn't matter so much as long as it works right.

Just thought I'd put myself out there; figure it can't hurt. If I can't get a line on anything else in the next few days, I'll probably pull the trigger on that 5000. (Pray for me that I don't miss out on it by hemming and hawing.)








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Re: and on that note...

2011-05-28 by jaytee.foster

Thanks for the tip! The Poly 800 is definitely also on my list of low-cost synths to start my collection with, along with Ensoniq ESQ-1, Kawai K3 and a couple other more obscure ones that seem to be going for lower prices these days.

But for some reason, the CZ-synths seem to be calling to me... They just seem to go well with the kind of music I make.

Mahalo
JT



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> Rig
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> Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 5:18 PM
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Re: [CZsynth] Re: and on that note...

2011-05-28 by Simon Beck

One reason why I didn't go for the Poly-800 all those years ago in the 1980s was that it only had one VCF for all 8 voices. The VCA envolope was fully polyphonic (OK for piano, organ or string sounds) but the VCF articulation was either single- or multiple-triggered. So with a brass sound for example you couldn't hold down a chord and solo over it without either the whole lot getting the brass "wah" each time you played a new note or alternatively the solo notes lacking a brass-like attack, depending on the setting. I know that the Polymoog had the same issue ten years earlier, but it was something I wouldn't have been prepared to put up with by the mid 1980s.

Simon
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  From: jaytee.foster 
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  Thanks for the tip! The Poly 800 is definitely also on my list of low-cost synths to start my collection with, along with Ensoniq ESQ-1, Kawai K3 and a couple other more obscure ones that seem to be going for lower prices these days.

  But for some reason, the CZ-synths seem to be calling to me... They just seem to go well with the kind of music I make.

  Mahalo
  JT

  --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, bill bigrig <billbigrig@...> wrote:
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  > Howdy,
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  > Â you might want to consider a Korg Poly 800. i worked with a guy once who got an incredible pedal steel sound out of it. It does require a volme pedal sweep while bending the pitch downward. Plus, there's a good mod out there giving you manual control of the filter.
  > Rig
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  > Subject: [CZsynth] and on that note...
  > To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
  > Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 5:18 PM
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  > As kind of a follow-up to my last post... if any is looking to off-load one of their CZs, I'd probably be interested. I have a line on a CZ-5000 for about $160 shipped, which seems like a decent deal, but I'm a bit more interested in a CZ-1 (for the nicer keyboard) or CZ-101 (for the size and supposed incredible lap steel guitar sounds) if I can find one. Then again, I'd jump at a 1000 or 3000 if the price was right. How it looks doesn't matter so much as long as it works right.
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  > Just thought I'd put myself out there; figure it can't hurt. If I can't get a line on anything else in the next few days, I'll probably pull the trigger on that 5000. (Pray for me that I don't miss out on it by hemming and hawing.)
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Re: [CZsynth] Re: and on that note...

2011-05-29 by bill bigrig

Howdy,
 
 interesting that you would mention the ESQ-1. This keyboard player, after droppind his Poly-8--, and seeing the keyboard smashed to bits, sold it to me for $10. I got another from a local music srore for $40 because it wouldn't hold the contents of the memory tape. Little did they know that the batteries in the unit was what kery the RAM "awake". Put in batteries, the patches are there as long as thebatteries last. I believe there is a mod out there that lets you install a small lithium memory battery that will eliminate this problem.
Rig

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Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 3:12 PM


  



Thanks for the tip! The Poly 800 is definitely also on my list of low-cost synths to start my collection with, along with Ensoniq ESQ-1, Kawai K3 and a couple other more obscure ones that seem to be going for lower prices these days.

But for some reason, the CZ-synths seem to be calling to me... They just seem to go well with the kind of music I make.

Mahalo
JT

--- In CZsynth@...m, bill bigrig <billbigrig@...> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
> Â 
> Â you might want to consider a Korg Poly 800. i worked with a guy once who got an incredible pedal steel sound out of it. It does require a volme pedal sweep while bending the pitch downward. Plus, there's a good mod out there giving you manual control of the filter.
> Rig
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> --- On Fri, 5/27/11, jaytee.foster <jaytee.foster@...> wrote:
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> From: jaytee.foster <jaytee.foster@...>
> Subject: [CZsynth] and on that note...
> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 5:18 PM
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> Â  
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> As kind of a follow-up to my last post... if any is looking to off-load one of their CZs, I'd probably be interested. I have a line on a CZ-5000 for about $160 shipped, which seems like a decent deal, but I'm a bit more interested in a CZ-1 (for the nicer keyboard) or CZ-101 (for the size and supposed incredible lap steel guitar sounds) if I can find one. Then again, I'd jump at a 1000 or 3000 if the price was right. How it looks doesn't matter so much as long as it works right.
> 
> Just thought I'd put myself out there; figure it can't hurt. If I can't get a line on anything else in the next few days, I'll probably pull the trigger on that 5000. (Pray for me that I don't miss out on it by hemming and hawing.)
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