Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Assuming it passes the sniff test on trying it out, I will get the
performance one but really looks like not until late February at the
earliest, more likely as late as April.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:52 PM, charlie 'chop' copp
<charles.copp@...> wrote:
> one of us are going o have to buy this and give the rest of the group "first
> hand" word of mouth about it
>
> i dislike this bouncing of second hand  knowledge
>
> so whos up for it?
>
> charles
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Forró" <dan.for@...>
> To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: Casio XW-P1 virtual analog...
>
>
> I'd suppose 16 bit user samples can be imported from SD card. If the
> only way would be to record samples through 10 bit ADC, how we could
> get announced 16 bit resolution?
>
> Daniel Forro
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:09 PM, jammie wrote:
>
>> when asked about samples and adding your own
>>
>> the synth guy said the only way to get samples of user samples was
>> through the external input which is 10bits so your user samples
>> will be only 10bits and only 10 locations
>>
>> the internal samples are 16bit but you cant add to those so they
>> are rom samples
>>
>> user ones are 10bits as thats the only way to get them into the
>> machine
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Daniel Forró
>>   To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>   Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:04 AM
>>   Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: Casio XW-P1 virtual analog...
>>
>>
>>
>>   Exactly, 10 bit resolution is for external audio input. Sampler uses
>>   16 bit, and non standard 42 kHz SR.
>>
>>   Daniel Forro
>>
>>   On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Wilson Zorn wrote:
>>
>>> Referring to http://www.casio-intl.com/file/news/pdf/XWseries/
>>> 20120119_XW_Specifications.pdf
>>> , I THINK that it indicates that the "quantization" is 16 bits
>>> which I
>>> take as the stored wave bits. The 10 bits refers to the A/D
>>> converter, the way I read this.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:13 PM, jammie
>>> <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
>>>> plenty of storage but if you want todo big multisamples then 10
>>>> slots is rubbish
>>>>
>>>> there is plenty of external storage so i think this would be
>>>> better with 1 shot samples like the fz1 but it depends on the
>>>> playback engine
>>>>
>>>> also i noticed on the specs it only sample in at 10bits thats crazy
>>>>
>>>> comming from the first manufacturer to bring 16bit samplers to the
>>>> market
>>>>
>>>> im all for low bit sampling but 10bits is a wierd format and no
>>>> editor that i know of has the ability to do 10bit samples
>>>>
>>>> they should of done it 8bits at least you would be able todo that
>>>> in an editor
>>>>
>>>> its good price tho and it sounded good it has plenty of pallete
>>>> but if it had biggewr sample internal memory
>>>>
>>>> would of been better plus have the cz101 and vz1 synthesis built
>>>> in in software as the vsti does but with sysex implimentation of
>>>> the old synths and they would of took the synth community by storm
>>>>
>>>> pd synthesis with pcm like the sy99 and sy77 at that price bracket
>>>> would of been amazing and that would sell like hot cakes
>>>>
>>>> my sy99 i can use all the dz7 library and put samples in 60 of
>>>> them into memory and they are in flash memory so are there when
>>>> you switch on and you can fm the carrier with the pcm
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Wilson Zorn
>>>> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:52 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: Casio XW-P1 virtual analog...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree it doesn't look likely, but will still hope! :) I'm hoping
>>>> more there's some technical wizardry that can be done to
>>>> interpret the
>>>> SysEx into the format that the new synth line is using effectively
>>>> (given they had to do something similar to get the old sounds
>>>> into the
>>>> new boxes).
>>>>
>>>> Re the sampler, yeah, it's limited. I would imagine the memory
>>>> can be
>>>> expanded, though. What bugs me is they didn't put the hex technology
>>>> and drawbars into the sampler and just make the sampler a
>>>> bigger/better version of the performance one, as it would be
>>>> handy to
>>>> have both in one. I already know I'll go for the performance box (if
>>>> it lives up to my expectations on trying it out, that is).
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:20 PM, jammie
>>>> <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
>>>>> i dont think so and the sample storage is rubbish 10 user
>>>> samples mad
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: Wilson Zorn
>>>>> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>>>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:05 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: Casio XW-P1 virtual analog...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I'm hoping is some way to port old CZ sounds. I have a
>>>> number of
>>>>> custom CZ sounds I've made - like I'm sure most if not
>>>> virtually all
>>>>> on this list have - and would love to be able to load onto one of
>>>>> these synths. I realize the sample unit would do it in terms
>>>> of an
>>>>> actual sample, naturally, but I'd hope for something that
>>>> could take
>>>>> the SysEx and (at least reasonably) faithfully rebuild/
>>>> recreate on the
>>>>> unit.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jan Hudak
>>>> <jahumaster@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> NAMM2012 update ;-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/new-year-new-era-new-
>>>> professional-synths-from-casio/147370
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>> From: José Ángel Morente <msxjam@...>
>>>>>> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:20 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Re: Casio XW-P1 virtual analog...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.casio-intl.com/file/news/pdf/XWseries/
>>>> 20120119_XW_Specifications.pdf
>>>>>>
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