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Re: [CZ-VZ-Files] Re: New patches are finally here.

2012-01-14 by Jan Hudak

Hello Daniel, 
thank you for the instrument list. I was wondering if its really you, i have two your books from 90s,
Pocitace a hudba, Midi komunikace v hudbe...
I am from Slovak republic, Bardejov...
Shame on me, i do not have any website, yet
I am composing music for games and TV, here is my hardware list:

Casio CZ1000, VZ10M,
Kawai K1II, K3m, K4r, XD5
Proteus 2000,
Kurzweil K2000R, K2500XS
Roland JV-90, D70, Fantom XR, JD990, D550, XV5080, 
Korg Triton Rack
Yamaha TG500, TG33 
Peavey Bass II
Motu MidiTimePiece, 828MK2,828mk3
RME Fireface 800

Two Imacs and Muse Receptor 1B.

Software list:
Primary DAW - Cubase 6
Arturia V-Collection, Bob Moog
Uhe -ACE, Zebra2, DIVA, Berlin Modular
Camel Alchemy
Plogue ChipSounds
ReFX QuadraSID
EWQL PLAY - orchestra, Goliath, rock, fab four, gypsy, SD2, Choirs
MOTU MachFive 2.0, 3.0, ethno, orchestra
MidiQuest 10

BTW i have worked on those casual game titles:
www.bigfishgames.com
- Ice Princess
- Valgor 1, 2
- Family Farm
- Art Detective
- Angelo
-- all games 60 minutes demo free. some of them are also MAC versions.

I am still wondering, why you keep CZ 3000, i think the best Casio is CZ 1, isnt ?

Have a nice day

Jan



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Hi, Jan,

it's published on my web pages at

www.soundclick.com/forrotronics

where it's possible to hear my music as well.

I like all of them :-), but most favorite and most used in my studio are:

Yamaha: 2x VL1, 2x VL1m, SY99, 2x EX5, FS1r, MU128 V2, PSR9000 Pro, Clavinova P500, DX7, DX7 II D, TX802, TX81z, TX816, TX416, TG77, TG500, RM50, TG33
Korg: Wavestation, Wavestation AD, 2x Prophecy, MS2000, PA80, CX3 V2, EX800, ER1, KaosPad 1  
Roland: V-piano, Jupiter 6, JD800, 2x JD990, MKS70
Kawai: K5000W, K3
Novation: Supernova
Oberheim: Matrix 6r
Casio: CZ3000
EMU: Ultraproteus, E4X
Technics: WSA1r
Akai: S3000XL

Less used are:
Yamaha: 2x TX16W, CS15D, 2x CS40m, CS80, SY1, WT11, rhythmer RX5, organ YC45D, SK20 and B30R, electro-acoustic piano CP80
Korg: Sigma,  X911
Roland: SH2000, TR808
Elka: Synthex
PPG: Wave 2.2
Hammond: tonewheel organ CV (1945), M3 (1960), LSI organ Commodore (1985)
ARP: Pro DGX
Moog: Multimoog
Kurzweil: K250
Casio: MT65
MFB: 512

Main reason is I haven't so much space in my studio and these instruments are in different rooms. When I need them for recording, I can bring them (with the exception of heavy Hammond and Yamaha organ, huge CS80 synth, and piano CP80 which I have upstairs in our house).

I like also other instruments - my Yamaha guitars SG500B, FGXB1, two custom six strings K+K bass guitars (fretted and fretless), fretted one with MIDI pickup and Yamaha G50 converter, also MIDI guitars Casio DG7 and Yamaha G10m, MIDI saxophone WX5 and my Japanese koto, shakuhachi and shamisen.

I had much more instruments in my Museum of EA instruments, but sold them before my moving to Japan. Some of them were bought by Vienna Technical Museum and are on exhibition there. I had some very rare old instruments in my collection. So my actual equipment is just rest of it, only few pieces were bought in Japan.

Daniel Forro

P.S.: Your name looks like Czech, am I right? :-)


On Jan 14, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Jan Hudak wrote:


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>Dear Daniel, 
>can you write the list of your instruments, and tell us which of them are your favourite instruments ?
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>Thanks
>Have a nice day
>Jan
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>From: Daniel Forró <dan.for@...>
>To: CZ-VZ-Files@...m 
>Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [CZ-VZ-Files] Re: New patches are finally here.
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>I'm happy with any synthesizer, as I'm collector to some degree, if 
>only I could keep all I have bought in the past, there were 
>hundreds... but sometimes unfortunately had to sell something to get 
>money and space for some other machines. But I regretted many times I 
>had to do this... CZ/VZ series has some features the other machines 
>hasn't and can produce interesting and quite usable sounds.
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>I think any synth - be it old or new - can serve well if we know how 
>to use its best and the most typical features. It has no sense to 
>expect good piano sound from DX7, or aggressive sound from Korg 
>Wavestation or Kawai K5000, or pipe organ from Korg MS2000... What I 
>like most of all is to combine different types of sound synthesis in 
>my numerous hardware synths. Each of them has some strong and weak 
>points, but together they create a huge supersynth with lot of 
>possibilities. Recently i have about 70 instruments in my studio...
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>Daniel Forro
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>On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:09 PM, cliffe123 wrote:
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>> Sorry to hear that, well I guess most people are not too happy with 
>> there old synths thease days. Im just the opposite since im not too 
>> happy with my newer synth which I hardly ever play other than my vz 
>> I had for over 20 years. I know one thing the CZ's are still good 
>> but only good in there own ways of making sounds. Sad thing I don't 
>> know too much about them though but I do wish you luck on your 
>> cz3000 whatever it has to offer.
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