Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

> Once again thanks Graham

Glad to be of assistance, the manual is pretty good but to be honest I
think you need an editor, I have patch lists and sysex files to help
control the VZ-8M from within Cakewalk, I noticed the reference to VST
so I guess you use Cubase. You need a sysex file to switch between PST1
and PST2 as there is no bank select and the INT sounds are common when
you address the VZ as two banks of 128 voices. You have to assign voices
in multi mode so I tend to use the VZ for a single sound these days. You
can do some neat trick with the VZ but they are not always obvious.

The VZ-8M has an extended data format when compared to the VZ-1 and
VZ-10M and most editors don't support the extended data which makes
multi mode a pain. You also need to enable sysex and turn protect off
manually whenever you want to edit sounds.

These are some Cakewalk format messages you should just need to strip
the 0x off and put an f0 in front and an f7 at the end to make this work
as raw sysex.

; Multi Mode Sysex
; (sendMIDI 2 0 SYSX 0x44 0x03 0x00 0x70 0x50 0x03)

; Normal mode Sysex 
; (sendMIDI 2 0 SYSX 0x44 0x03 0x00 0x70 0x50 0x00)

; Operation mode Sysex 
; (sendMIDI 2 0 SYSX 0x44 0x03 0x00 0x70 0x50 0x02)

; Preset 1 Sysex
; (sendMIDI 2 0 SYSX 0x44 0x03 0x00 0x70 0x51 0x20) 

; Preset 2 Sysex
; (sendMIDI 2 0 SYSX 0x44 0x03 0x00 0x70 0x51 0x21) 

Regards
 
Graham