MATRIXSYNTH: Vintage 1980's Casio CZ-1000 Digital Synthesizer


Friday, March 26, 2010

Vintage 1980's Casio CZ-1000 Digital Synthesizer

via this auction
" Used by many famous bands (Erasure, Radiohead among others), it is a digital synth with great programming capabilities and a nice variety of analog-like traits and sounds. It is equipped with a 8-stage envelope design. It uses Phase Distortion (PD) synthesis for the great sounds, similar to the Yamaha DX synthesizers. It also has four types of vibrato settings, a simple LFO-type section with triangle, square, ramp up or down waveforms as well as rate, depth and delay settings. Four Portamento adds classic glide effect. It has oscillators with 4-note polyphony, a built-in noise and ring modulation and is MIDI equipped with 4 monophonic multitimbral parts.You can also create lots of new sounds, notably percussive sounds.Great for standard stage/studio work, the synth is very cool strapped as a guitar (it is also battery operated) for stand-up stage performances."





1 comment:

  1. Ah, yes, the good ole' CZ-1000. I had one once and it was my first programmable synth, it was fun to program. I was 12 at the time. LOL

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