Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Group question:

Which would you rather own: a VZ-10m or VZ-8m, and why?

Thanks,


Shayme

The 8m is probably the best way to go. It has much better handling of stereo
output than the 10m which only outputs in stereo at the cost off polyphony.
Of course by itself the 8m only has ½ the polyphony anyway. But you can link
2 8ms together to get full 16 voice polyphony although I have never done
this is person.

 

Jon 

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From: shayme [mailto:shayme@...] 
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:20 AM
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Subject: [CZsynth] VZ comparison question...

 

Group question:

Which would you rather own: a VZ-10m or VZ-8m, and why?

Thanks,


Shayme






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The VZ8m- 
    Less filling (takes up 1 rack space)
    has 2 banks of fun presets.

The VZ10m-
    Has large Blue screen
    Has 16 voices (as opposed to 8 voices on the 8m)

On 7/12/02 8:20 AM, "shayme" <shayme@...> wrote:

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> Thanks,
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> Shayme
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Thanks for the responses so far:

In addition to the better display, is the interface/layout on the VZ-10m a bit better
than the VZ-8m?

What about if you had an FZ-10m, wouldn't you rather have the VZ-10m sitting on top
since they match quite well?

Shayme

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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [CZsynth] VZ comparison question...




The VZ8m-
    Less filling (takes up 1 rack space)
    has 2 banks of fun presets.

The VZ10m-
    Has large Blue screen
    Has 16 voices (as opposed to 8 voices on the 8m)

On 7/12/02 10:46 AM, "shayme" <shayme@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the responses so far:
> 
> In addition to the better display, is the interface/layout on the VZ-10m a bit
> better
> than the VZ-8m?

Yes (in my humble opinion -and I've owned both)



> What about if you had an FZ-10m, wouldn't you rather have the VZ-10m sitting
> on top
> since they match quite well?
> 
> Shayme

Yes to that too.
.....But I've always disliked the FZ-10m (clunky nightmareish interface and
low sample rate)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "XPANDER" <xpander@...>
> To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] VZ comparison question...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The VZ8m-
>   Less filling (takes up 1 rack space)
>   has 2 banks of fun presets.
> 
> The VZ10m-
>   Has large Blue screen
>   Has 16 voices (as opposed to 8 voices on the 8m)
> 
> 
>

> Which would you rather own: a VZ-10m or VZ-8m, and why?

I have a VZ-8 and would quite like to have the VZ-10 for the extra polyphony
BUT I would miss some of the extra flexibility in setting up operation
memories. The irony is that you can have more control over the multi setup
on the 8M but with only 8 notes a lot of the time I only use it for a single
sound. The small screen might be an issue if I did not have Midi Quest but I
did used to edit the sounds before I had the editor.

I have never regretted having a VZ it's a very capable synth capable of some
unique sounds. The operating system is quite complex but if you have the
patience to experiment a little with the sounds the results can be very
rewarding,

Regards

Graham

Graham@...

>The 8m is probably the best way to go. It has much better handling of 
>stereo
>output than the 10m which only outputs in stereo at the cost off polyphony.
>Of course by itself the 8m only has \ufffd the polyphony anyway. But you can 
>link
>2 8ms together to get full 16 voice polyphony although I have never done
this is person.

really?  how is the stereo output done in the 8m?

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Hi Graham.

> "BUT I would miss some of the extra flexibility in setting up operation memories. The
irony is that you can have more control over the multi setup on the 8M...."

Can you explain this to me, as I'm not *familiar enough* with the VZ series.

Thanks so much,


Shayme

On the 8m you can program panning separately from the patch, basically you
can program the sound and then set the whole thing to pan according to auto
pan, fixed pan or controller pan. On the 10m you have to assign particular
voices to particular outputs and this is then hardwired into the patch. To
create a lot of stereo effect on the 10m you wind up halving its polyphony.
So the 8m is a little more sophisticated at least in that regard. I always
got the impression that the VZ1/10m and all the CZ's were at heart mono
instruments even though some of them have stereo outs. 


Jon     

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Nordlund [mailto:gsn10@...] 
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 11:19 AM
To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CZsynth] VZ comparison question...

>The 8m is probably the best way to go. It has much better handling of 
>stereo
>output than the 10m which only outputs in stereo at the cost off polyphony.
>Of course by itself the 8m only has ½ the polyphony anyway. But you can 
>link
>2 8ms together to get full 16 voice polyphony although I have never done
this is person.

really?  how is the stereo output done in the 8m?
.