Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I've finally digitised the songs from Mix It Up's debut (and only) record, the 4-song EP "Mickey Reform", and put together a web page about the band. All the keyboard parts apart from the real piano and real Fender Rhodes were played on a Casio CT-202 or a Casio CZ-101 (using my own sounds). As far as I remember, the organ, the flute  and some of the strings are from the 202; and everything else is CZ-101. I also did all the rhythm programming and played bass guitar. This is what I was doing back in 1986...

http://www.alphabeck.co.uk/music/mix_it_up/

Hope you enjoy it!

Simon

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On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:02:48 -0000
"Simon Beck" <simon@...> wrote:

> http://www.alphabeck.co.uk/music/mix_it_up/
> 
> Hope you enjoy it!

It's very much of its time, and you can tell it's good because the B-side is better ;-)

(four plays later)

I've got a Fostex four track kicking around here somewhere...

Maybe it's just me, I have a bit of a thing for lush strings and reverb-drenched female vocals.

-- 
Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ <gordonjcp@...>

Heres some cz101 from something i was working on in the late 80's

http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/ozone.mp3

Thank you for these tracks !
Here is a song made with the Casio CZ-101 :Casiokids - Golden Years->
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mp3-download-casiokids-electro-po\
p-track-golden-years-20111006
<http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mp3-download-casiokids-electro-p\
op-track-golden-years-20111006>



--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "hector" <hectorcrawfish@...> wrote:
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> Heres some cz101 from something i was working on in the late 80's
>
> http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/ozone.mp3
>



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hector this is strnge music ..what was it for?
charles

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "hector" <hectorcrawfish@...>
To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:05 AM
Subject: [CZsynth] More cz goodness


> Heres some cz101 from something i was working on in the late 80's
> 
> http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/ozone.mp3
> 
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Of course its strange. Its meant to be strange. It is a slice from a song called "Hole in the Ozone layer" and if you think the instrumentation is bad then you wouldnt want to hear my singing. 

What I was doing with the CZ was sending a program change for every note so for example a 16 note bar would have 16 program changes. Pretty spastic eh!
--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, charlie 'chop' copp <charles.copp@...> wrote:

>
> hector this is strnge music ..what was it for?
> charles
>

cool! does cz has a "programn change on every note" thingy??

2011/12/4 hector <hectorcrawfish@...>

> **
>
>
>
> Of course its strange. Its meant to be strange. It is a slice from a song
> called "Hole in the Ozone layer" and if you think the instrumentation is
> bad then you wouldnt want to hear my singing.
>
> What I was doing with the CZ was sending a program change for every note
> so for example a 16 note bar would have 16 program changes. Pretty spastic
> eh!
>
> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, charlie 'chop' copp <charles.copp@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > hector this is strnge music ..what was it for?
> > charles
> >
>
>  
>



-- 


Mvh

Peter H.K Sedin


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i too find interest in the program change ..
utilize , optimize...maximize ,,is my belief...
and
 believe it or not
 i got a couple of my original midi files from 1998/99 ,when i first began
as a midi musician,that sound very similar to your file..but strangily it
was never meant to sound that way ..

thanks for sharing
charles.
----- Original Message -----
From: "hector" <hectorcrawfish@...>
To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 3:45 AM
Subject: [CZsynth] Re: More cz goodness


>
> Of course its strange. Its meant to be strange. It is a slice from a song
called "Hole in the Ozone layer" and if you think the instrumentation is bad
then you wouldnt want to hear my singing.
>
> What I was doing with the CZ was sending a program change for every note
so for example a 16 note bar would have 16 program changes. Pretty spastic
eh!
> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, charlie 'chop' copp <charles.copp@...>
wrote:

> >
> > hector this is strnge music ..what was it for?
> > charles
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

there is no such thing as a specific program change on every note 
function. prog changes are included in the MIDI spec so are not a 
function per se of the synth unless it is incapable of accepting prog 
change commands. The thingy is a sequencer like cubase which sends out a 
prog change command to change a patch. say you have a piano sound on a 
patch and at some stage in the song on the same track you wish to now 
play a brass sound on the same instrument but a different patch. You 
simply send out a prog change. What I was doing to amuse myself was for 
every note in a sequence I would send a prog change. The CZ has 16 
assignable patches (I didnt have a cartridge) and I would send out 16 
prog changes in rapid succession. As an interesting side effect I also 
had a LED lightshow on the CZ.

Another example



http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/jihad.mp3

On 5/12/2011 4:40 AM, Peter Sedin wrote:
> cool! does cz has a "programn change on every note" thingy??
>
> 2011/12/4 hector<hectorcrawfish@...>
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>

I like the lightshow idea! Of course if you have a Yamah PSR or Casio LK etc then you get the same thing.
The other way of enabling patch changes on notes is to have a program that monitors the MIDI out and checks for notes and sends patch changes for a given note to the MIDI in - I suspect MIDIox could cope with that. None of this is peculiar to a CZ.


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 From: Phillip White <hectorcrawfish@...>
To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 9:49
Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: More cz goodness
 

  

there is no such thing as a specific program change on every note 
function. prog changes are included in the MIDI spec so are not a 
function per se of the synth unless it is incapable of accepting prog 
change commands. The thingy is a sequencer like cubase which sends out a 
prog change command to change a patch. say you have a piano sound on a 
patch and at some stage in the song on the same track you wish to now 
play a brass sound on the same instrument but a different patch. You 
simply send out a prog change. What I was doing to amuse myself was for 
every note in a sequence I would send a prog change. The CZ has 16 
assignable patches (I didnt have a cartridge) and I would send out 16 
prog changes in rapid succession. As an interesting side effect I also 
had a LED lightshow on the CZ.

Another example

http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/jihad.mp3

On 5/12/2011 4:40 AM, Peter Sedin wrote:
> cool! does cz has a "programn change on every note" thingy??
>
> 2011/12/4 hector<hectorcrawfish@yahoo.com.au>
>
>>
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>>
>
>


 

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This technique has some limitations:

- can be used only in non legato music, where notes are not  
overlapping. Chords are possible.

- PC must be send slightly before note. Ideally during pause.

- Some synthesizers need some time to change the program so there can  
be some delay after PC message.

- PC will abruptly stop sounding previous note on most synthesizers.  
Release part of envelope will probably not sound until the end.

- on synthesizers with effect processors PC will mute the effect and  
needs more time to be done.

Daniel Forro

On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Phillip White wrote:

>
> there is no such thing as a specific program change on every note
> function. prog changes are included in the MIDI spec so are not a
> function per se of the synth unless it is incapable of accepting prog
> change commands. The thingy is a sequencer like cubase which sends  
> out a
> prog change command to change a patch. say you have a piano sound on a
> patch and at some stage in the song on the same track you wish to now
> play a brass sound on the same instrument but a different patch. You
> simply send out a prog change. What I was doing to amuse myself was  
> for
> every note in a sequence I would send a prog change. The CZ has 16
> assignable patches (I didnt have a cartridge) and I would send out 16
> prog changes in rapid succession. As an interesting side effect I also
> had a LED lightshow on the CZ.
>
> Another example
>
>
>
> http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/jihad.mp3
>
>
>
> On 5/12/2011 4:40 AM, Peter Sedin wrote:
>> cool! does cz has a "programn change on every note" thingy??
>>
>> 2011/12/4 hector<hectorcrawfish@...>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

yep !
 you are right ,
 but just to add the cz in mono ,mode will play 4 voices on 4 indipendant
channels,,,
so some legato /duration will be obtainable...

yahoo

charles





----- Original Message -----

From: "Daniel Forr\ufffd" <dan.for@...>
To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: More cz goodness


> This technique has some limitations:
>
> - can be used only in non legato music, where notes are not
> overlapping. Chords are possible.
>
> - PC must be send slightly before note. Ideally during pause.
>
> - Some synthesizers need some time to change the program so there can
> be some delay after PC message.
>
> - PC will abruptly stop sounding previous note on most synthesizers.
> Release part of envelope will probably not sound until the end.
>
> - on synthesizers with effect processors PC will mute the effect and
> needs more time to be done.
>
> Daniel Forro
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Phillip White wrote:
>
> >
> > there is no such thing as a specific program change on every note
> > function. prog changes are included in the MIDI spec so are not a
> > function per se of the synth unless it is incapable of accepting prog
> > change commands. The thingy is a sequencer like cubase which sends
> > out a
> > prog change command to change a patch. say you have a piano sound on a
> > patch and at some stage in the song on the same track you wish to now
> > play a brass sound on the same instrument but a different patch. You
> > simply send out a prog change. What I was doing to amuse myself was
> > for
> > every note in a sequence I would send a prog change. The CZ has 16
> > assignable patches (I didnt have a cartridge) and I would send out 16
> > prog changes in rapid succession. As an interesting side effect I also
> > had a LED lightshow on the CZ.
> >
> > Another example
> >
> >
> >
> > http://web.aanet.com.au/cupcake/cz/jihad.mp3
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/12/2011 4:40 AM, Peter Sedin wrote:
> >> cool! does cz has a "programn change on every note" thingy??
> >>
> >> 2011/12/4 hector<hectorcrawfish@...>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> >
> >
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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