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Re: Newbie with a VZ1 / CZ-101 rackmount mod?

2003-01-10 by Terry <orbitaldecay@hotmail.com>

> Anyone have any 
>ideas?
 Here are a few pics of some CZ synths I rescued.
For the CZ-101, I just wanted a black box. Since
all of the parameters can be accessed from a MIDI 
controller. Gone is the keyboard, switches, LED's. 
The keyboard circuit board was removed, as was the 
LED driver board and switch matrix board. All that
is needed is the MIDI in/out, volume, line out, 
power switch, power jack, and LCD display. The only
extra switches would be bank select for the 4 bank 
memory cartrige attached to the external cart port.
A backup battery of 3 volts was added to the on-board
battery terminals. All I need now is a suitable box to 
put it in. I may even mount a rechargeable gel-cell,
if there is room, for the ultimate in portability.

 There are also some pics of a CZ-1 I am thinking about 
making a 2 space rack mount out of. Same things removed,
keyboard, switches, LED's, and the swithh matrix, LED 
driver. The CZ-1 will require a few parameters to be 
accessed. I was thinking of using 12 position rotary 
switches in combination with a momentary pushbutton,
to access the different menus.

 Both synths work great, but are not completed yet.
A CZ-50.5 for the black box? (Half a 101)
A CZ-10M for the racked CZ-1?

http://www.geocities.com/orbitaldecay_99//czrack.html

Terry (The Casio Kid)

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