Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I don't recall if anyone already mentioned this, but in case not and
just to confirm if you have, I spoke to an acquaintance music dealer
who's back from NAMM and he mentioned they are saying second quarter
with no further detail or notion as to whether it's earlier or later
in the quarter. So we'll probably be lucky if we see it in April and
let's just hope it doesn't slip beyond.

I don't know if my contact's any indication but he said at the price
and for what he saw it was a no-brainer to stock them.  But if this is
indicative, then we might see a nice comeback for Casio!

He did indicate, btw, that in their engine they were trying to
recapture some of the Phase Distortion capability and he said he
thought or they said something to the effect that they were working on
the ability to load old CZ sysexes, but I don't want to say he
promised anything or gave a firm idea, it was clear he'd been all over
the show and was on overload.  But the point to be taken is, at least,
that the guys at NAMM indicated they were at least quite aware of the
PD history and were tying to clearly honor it.  Now that could easily
be lip service, but it's encouraging at least to hear at this early
stage.

well if they add it to the dsp engine and sysex support than im buying one pd synthesis and pcm

ill be able to use it like my sy99 

and with filters to extra squelch

hope this comes about as this will be a synth to get

and hope we have proper specs of the user sample engine

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wilson Zorn 
  To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:49 PM
  Subject: [CZsynth] XW release timing -


    
  I don't recall if anyone already mentioned this, but in case not and
  just to confirm if you have, I spoke to an acquaintance music dealer
  who's back from NAMM and he mentioned they are saying second quarter
  with no further detail or notion as to whether it's earlier or later
  in the quarter. So we'll probably be lucky if we see it in April and
  let's just hope it doesn't slip beyond.

  I don't know if my contact's any indication but he said at the price
  and for what he saw it was a no-brainer to stock them. But if this is
  indicative, then we might see a nice comeback for Casio!

  He did indicate, btw, that in their engine they were trying to
  recapture some of the Phase Distortion capability and he said he
  thought or they said something to the effect that they were working on
  the ability to load old CZ sysexes, but I don't want to say he
  promised anything or gave a firm idea, it was clear he'd been all over
  the show and was on overload. But the point to be taken is, at least,
  that the guys at NAMM indicated they were at least quite aware of the
  PD history and were tying to clearly honor it. Now that could easily
  be lip service, but it's encouraging at least to hear at this early
  stage.


  

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