Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hello everyone,

I purchased a VZ-1 last night from a gentleman off Craigslist. I'm blown away by the build quality and the phase distortion is really exciting. I primarily spend my musical time playing guitar but over the last several years I've been introduced to soft synth plugins and synth sounds are amazing. I purchased the CZ-1 so I could get my fingers on a polyphonic synth. Unfortunately, my computer is not robust enough to handle the synth chords I've been playing and I often am limited to playing intervals with a short decay.

I stayed up this morning until about 2 am just going through presets and then running the output signal through some software plugins and a TC Helicon Voicelive 3 and a Boss DD-500 (digital delay).

HOLY SMOKES!!!! Blown away!

I've obtained a PDF manual and currently am reading it.

I've hit a sticking point though on the first exercise related to the "MULTI AREA (PAGE/ZOOM)" button. The manual says, "Note that the selected function features a total of 3 "display pages" - which means that only some of the parameters contained in this function are presently displayed. The others can be accessed by pressing the MULTI AREA (PAGE/ZOOM) keys.

Unfortunately, when i hit this key/button both individually and seperately it is not allowing me to see the other "sub menus". I have only been only to access the VEL RATE. I really want to get to the envelope so I can change the attack and decay primarily at this point in order to start shaping some pad sounds.

If anyone could help I would be very grateful.

Thanks,

Billy Glen

I can be wrong but I understood his not quite clear message that he  
has purchased some virtual CZ-1 application...

... probably this one:

http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4-synth/1158-virtualcz

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/956692-virtual-cz-casio-cz-finally-software.html

http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/oli-larkin-virtual-cz

... and his computer is not powerful enough to play dense chords with  
many notes :-)

He should be more exact in description what he has...

Daniel Forro

On Apr 18, 2017, at 12:01 AM, smw-mail@... [CZsynth] wrote:
>
> Also, you wrote, " I purchased the CZ-1 so I could get my fingers on  
> a polyphonic synth. Unfortunately, my computer is not robust enough  
> to handle the synth chords I've been playing . . . ."
>
> I am not sure how the computer has anything to do with what you can  
> play with the CZ-1.  If you are talking about just handling audio  
> via the sound card or sound chip, Windows 98SE era PCs with run-of- 
> the-mill sound chips could handle multi-track audio from CZ ages  
> ago.  However, since you have the capacity to run softsynth plug- 
> ins, I am guessing you have a more modern computer.
>
> However, running the CZ through external effects and then into  
> software plug-ins for additional effects could be overloading the  
> audio card and/or the computer's CPU, depending how much of a CPU  
> hog the software is.
>
> So, if the computer's audio is what you mean, have you tried just  
> the CZ-1?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Steve