Demo of Casio CZ-1 Sounds

Published on Feb 6, 2015

Demo starts at 2:41. Note Casio recently released the CZ synth engine for iPad: CZ App for iPad - CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

"WARNING! This is a run through of 64 sounds loaded into my Casio CZ-1 Phase Distortion Synthesizer. This is NOT an exciting video. More than half are presets from the instrument, and the rest are modified presets, and original patches. Nothing fabulous for patches, but it does give you a high resolution sound sampling of the CZ synth, which I happen to love (and unfortunately haven't done much with in the last 5 or 6 year).

I would suggest just letting it run in the background and listening to it, because there's nothing really to watch.

For me, the more unique patches this synth can cough up use the ring modulation and the fake resonant waves. It's a very unique synth that's fairly easy to program, and I FIRMLY believe had it been released before the Yamaha DX-7, there's a good chance it would have sold more units than the DX-7. It's just that much easier to program and capable of a wider variety of usable sounds. That being said, I'm still a big fan of FM synthesis, it's just not as "user friendly" as implemented by Yamaha's line of DX synths.

And lastly please excuse all the mediocre keyboard playing. I would say I play AROUND with keyboards...I don't actually play them! Cheers!"