Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

>The lcd screen can only be viewed from a sharp angle from above - not
>below and not straight on. Are there no adjustments?

Hold the display button and move the data slider

>Manuals. I downloaded the out of print book but that is not a manual.
>
>No one in the universe has one?! Or are they too large to scan and
>upload?

Sorry, no resources that I know of...

If it's any consolation, the manual sucks.

>nice sounding defaults on this machine, no? I can't wait to play with
>it, but blindly pushing buttons is only for what I do at work :)

You may have figured this out already but I can give you a few hints-

(and this is from memory, my VZ is unplugged and on the floor across the 
room now so I can't really verify this)

in normal mode (the mode it starts in where you play the preset patches), 
menu 1 gets you to the voice parameters (envelopes and that sort of thing), 
menu 2 is effect parameters (settings for modulations wheels and stuff- not 
stored with patches), and menu 3 is global settings (memory protect, midi 
channels, etc.).  Once you're in one of the menus, use the cursor keys to 
scroll through them, then once you're on the right menu, press the menu 
1/2/3 button to get to the parameters.  then change them around, etc.  If 
there's a menu with multiple pages, the up/down keys scroll between them.  
You can copy parameters for envelopes and things like that between 
oscillators, or initialize a whole page to save time.  The line button shows 
the oscillator configuration, and the display button shows graphical stuff 
if you're on an envelope, LFO, keyboard curve, or velocity curve menu.  save 
patches by first turning write protection off, then go back to normal mode, 
hold the write key while selecting the patch to write (internal A-5 or 
whatever).  I don't know much about the keyboard split/layer mode or 
operation memories because I don't use them.  Multi-channel mode is for 
multi-timbral setups.  Scroll through the channels with the up/down keys and 
set all of the parameters to your liking. channels 1-4 and 5-8 come out of 
the different outputs and each set is limited to 8 total voices.  Menu 2 has 
more parameters here, with detune and stuff like that.

I hope that's all correct and understandeable.  I guess if there are any 
more enigmas that you can't figure out, you can ask on this list until you 
can track down a copy of the manual..

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