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Casio CZ-1

Digital Synth from Casio belonging to the CZ series

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Published on 06/19/09 at 14:34
This is the technology phase distortion, clean CASIO. Sometimes it looks like the Yamaha FM, but the richness and variation on less: there are only two oscillators so it limits the changes in phases such as FM can produce.
16 votes is better than the CZ1000. Dynamics and aftertouch: the sole of the game do that. Concrtement, it brings a bit of variation on.

No squenceur.
A chorus, but terrible breath and (on my CZ1) is quite dsquilibr therefore quite useless.
Display little (rtro-down lighting), but sufficiently readable.
A glide: a beginners each bend notes. Not common on the synths, but pretty useless because the envelope equivalent
high.

The envelopes are trs flexible: we can choose o to sustain, and 8 segments. CRER attacks can be used (multiple) of its particulires.

UTILIZATION

Trs simple to use, even without a manual. Rare enough to be stressed.
Oddities: a sub menu possibility to cut the chorus, but there is a slider that cuts too.

SOUNDS

Good: Sounds a little weird, far from the Ralite trs. These sounds also trs types, easily recognizable: the "brass" are typical trs.
Whereas this can be a default or ... one if we want quality sound Different.

OVERALL OPINION

My first one CZ1000 synth t, because I could not afford to have more, such as the DX7 an era. So for me the sounds are quite "cheap" is that a little bit poor sounding a little draw, and trs typs ... also a bit ridiculous. I remember trying to play "Jump" with CZ1000, the al al spanked this redneck ... far from the sound of Oberheim ..
C'tait also one of the first multi-timbral synth an amateur price!

But ultimately that's what rtro cot, and the first synth that is its charm for me, and then it is so easy to program ... is probably the one I programmed the most: low factory sounds and a lack of money to buy a little more force and seek
finding original sounds (I would put them on a website somewhere).

Finally, if you leave imitations trs rates (in fact impossible to do with this synth pianos, guitars, cellos (horrible) etc.
he can make weird noises mtalliques or artificial trs, to give his music a kind, in any case a single cot.

My rating is low (2) because the hard reflte Ralite: CASIO synthse this is a little weak and produces sounds trs intrt often with little artificial, far from the wealth synthse the FM, in short the "poor man's DX7" but I was even late in a ratchet CZ1 opportunities to rediscover the joy of the sounds of my CZ100 rotten that I sold (for a ENSONIQ EPS).
You your prvenus!