We won't be able to keep this old kit alive forever. And I think the CZ sound is certainly one unique constituent of that palette of sounds that people clearly still love.Ĭasio have always had a great ability to get model ranges to market and if anyone from Casio ever reads this, I would urge them to consider some new CZ (or CZ "plus") models. Now we all see the various types of synthesis engine as a "palette" we can pick and choose from of different soundscapes, just as there is a palette of different acoustic instruments. I never believed that, I was always a huge fan of analogue and kept mine (sadly they were all stolen but that's another very sad story) but that didn't turn out to be the case. So for instance the digital "killed" the analogue subtractive model and so on. It seems to me that during the 80s when these technologies were first developed, each new tech was seen as a potential replacement for the previous one as if an ultimate "best synth engine" goal was being sought. But I must admit that although I'm quite good on electronics I have no idea how the internals work, or any knowledge of whether FPGAs could do the same job as I know nothing about them.īut in the current market I think they'd sell well. Maybe the costs of remaking the uPD933 chip would be higher than the market would bear, although I would think it could be quite easily replicated (and upgraded!) with modern technology. New keyboards capable of making true CZ sounds (not just having a few CZ waveforms in them, as is the case with the XW synths) would quite likely sell pretty well. Short of a used CZ a soft-synth is probably the only way you will be able to get that CZ sound in the foreseeable future. For some unfathomable reason Casio seems completely unwilling to capitalize on the past success of, and goodwill toward, their old CZ synthesizers by releasing new hardware synthesizers based on phase distortion, or even to include phase distortion as an available synthesis mode in a particular model. A couple of them are described here, along with emulations of other vintage Casio keyboards. And there are also soft-synths inspired by the CZ series that take phase distortion and go to town with it, the way you hoped Casio would. Currently on sale for half price until March 5th.īut don't rush out and buy it until you look into the other commercial offerings, including Virtual CZ (review here) and Cazius. Or you could decide to save your money and download a free offering, instead. You don't have an iPad so you can't run Casio's own CZ app? There are alternatives.
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