#cz1000

[casiocz]

Reddit u/_rustmonster showing some classic Casio CZ patch books. A fun way to spend a Sunday, flipping through the pages, pressing buttons and tweaking your sound. 

https://bit.ly/3s7XKuy

[casiocz]

When asked about my favourite synths, I always say the CZ-1. I’m lucky enough to own some incredible analog legends but these simple tricks make the Casio CZ a tool of it’s own, Here is a really cool patch I made, It’s just a 1 oscillator Filtered Pulse Wave and a Pitch Envelope. As simple as it is, it’s something that I couldn’t get from any other synth. The polyphonic pitch envelope really brings it to another place. It doesn’t have to be a severe +7 semitone jump like this patch either, it can be as simple as slightly detuning each note or sliding through octaves on attack/release and everything else in between. Honestly, I’ve played more lush sounding synths, the Prophet is one of them, but the CZ’s just have such a unique sound with features that you can’t get from anything else, and they can live really close to the analog world.

[casiocz]

Reddit u/Upstairs_Sandwich178 and his CZ-1000. What an amazing patch and perfect playing to match it. 05/01/2022. 

https://www.reddit.com/u/Upstairs_Sandwich178/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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When you bring release time way down on a break beat chop it doesn't sound like 145 BPM anymore. Usual suspects: #MPC #FB01 #TQ5 #cz1000

[parisgraphics]

From my world of cheap old synths...#CZ1000 found for $10 a few years ago. Currently all over a new track. Phase distortion synthesis. Spend time with it and get some good sounds ;)

[lowbroweye]

Unearthed this old live recording yesterday when rummaging around the dustier corners of my hard drives for other stuff.

Correlating my memories of the recording location (Hove, actually) and the gear used —

Roland TR808 & MC202 & Casio CZ-1000 synced and sequenced by a Roland MSQ700*

Moog Moogerfooger MF-101 low-pass filter pedal

Spirit Folio Rac Pac mixer

Overly heavy handed usage of a crappy Behringer compressor

Lexicon Vortex and three (!) Zoom 1201 effects units in a mutual feedback configuration

— indicates that this was sometime back in the dark ages of 1998, shortly before I went on an year-long brain-breaking bender of making painfully unpalatable, semi-modular experimental noise nonsense.

1998 isn't that long ago, is it?

Oh.

* A pretty damn retro setup even in 1998; ridiculously quaint now. Which reminds me that I need to liberate the CZ; it's been on loan for over a decade and I miss it.