Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I have mine somewhere in the garage.  I am just writing to confirm 
Simon's comments. 1 plug for record. 1 plug for playback. 1 plug for 
start stop.  Setting levels was a bit tricky, though less tricky than 
my KORG EX-800 tape interface was. I seem to recall AGC (automatic 
gain control) was not recomended.

I, too, used the MT cable with the CZ-5000 very successfully (patch 
banks and sequences).  I never tried it with a wav file, but I assume 
it should work.  I wonder if MP3 or other compression schemes would 
work.

If you need to build a cable or find a compatible substitute, I could 
find my MT cable and test the din pin connections with a multi-
meter.  I have a feeling this may already be on the internet, 
though.  Check out the Casio CZ sites.

Hope this helps 

--Steve

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Simon Beck" <simon@a...> wrote:
> The cable that you need is probably similar to the one that came 
with my Yamaha RX-21 drum machine in about 1985. It has an 8-pin DIN 
plug on one end and (I think) two 3.5mm and one 2.5mm jack plugs on 
the other. The larger plugs were for the mic and earphone sockets of 
a typical mono cassette recorder (they were often used for home 
computer data backup at the time) and the 2.5mm plug could start and 
stop the cassette if the recorder had a remote switch facility. I 
successfully backed up data from my drum machine using this facility, 
and you could probably store CZ-5000 sequencer data on a PC as audio 
in the same way.
> 
> Simon Beck
> London, UK
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: texhand 
>   To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:42 PM
>   Subject: [CZsynth] M/T--- Hello
> 
> 
>   #1 Has anyone ever successfully use the tape interface on the cz-
5000?
>   I think I could get a 8 pin cable, but the recorder to huck up?? 
Was a
>   recorder ever made to connect to 8 pin cable?
> 
>   #2 Is bulk loading to ram card the only way to use ram card?
> 
>   #3 What is the best pc editor for the cz's?
> 
> 
> 
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