In the video I played the CZ-1000 with a Lexicon MPX 500 reverb.The Casio CZ-1000 is a digital synthesizer with the 'phase distortion' synthesis. It came out 1985 and it was one of the first low cost synthesizers with MIDI multimode.The CZ-1000 looks like something between Yamaha DX7 and Korg Poly-800. Like the Korg Poly-800, it can run on batteries. The CZ-101 is virtually the same, it just has small keys.Casio had the idea to develop a digital synth with modern digital sounds, which is easy to program like an analog synth. Indeed, it uses similar terminology (DCO, DCW, DCA) - if you understand subtractive synthesis, the CZ will be also easy for you to understand.Instead of real filters, you have the DCW - this is the unit, which distorts the phase of the DCO. Resonance is not available, but you can produce similar sounds with special DCO waveforms.
There are 8 waveforms, two of them can be used at once.It has portamento, monophonic / polyphonic modes and cartridge storage. Like the original DX7, the display is not backlit.The Casio can produce digital and analog-style sounds.
Great house organs can be produced. Some 'filter sweep' sounds are interesting (the bass in the movie).
But other analog-style sounds are a bit static and boring to my ears, I would recommend the Casio for digital sounds - not for the analog sounds. Analog sounds are better on the competitor Korg Poly-800.The timing of the sound engine is not the best - a three notes chord causes a significant delay between notes (you can hear it in the movie). But okay, it was a small budget synth.The Casio CZ synths were popular especially in UK and USA, but not so much in Germany.Vince Clarke used to have one in the eighties.
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Casio CZ-1000Casio CZ-1000 (1984)Trend price: 150€Synthesizer based on digital synthesis PD-Phase Distortion, strongly inspired by Yamaha FM technology. The is the same machine but portable with minikeys.Overview(weight: 3 Kg) 49 keys. The main panel features a 16 x 2 lines display and 52 push buttons.
On the left side there is a single pitch wheel.Terminal connectors:-Midi interface (no Thru)-cartridge slot-line out-headphonesVoicesystem manages 8 digital voices based on PD synthesis. A basic patch is composed by 1 or 2 DCO or LINES which are detunable digital sinewave-cosine oscillators processed by logic mathematical operations.