There are some drum kit sounds which are interesting to say the least!īuy one then set it on fire at the end of the set! Much better as a one sound instrument, for bass or pads I'ld say. Midi implementation is shoddy, you can use it for 4 voices but the sounds have to then be monophonic and just use one layer. I can imagine a parallel universe where these things are a grand each, and people are putting out records full of really odd music. These things are too cheap, they dont force you to program them hard enough. I bought a yamaha tx81z which unfortulately overshadowed this synth but I still like the strings on th CZ1000. There is a filter of sorts, envelope controlable, 'unique' i think is the word! Lots of detuned movement is possible with the 8 stage envelopes. piano which is a detroit piano, very smooth, and a string I progammed which is the nicest totally synth string I have got. My favourite sounds(those I have sampled to keep) are the built in elec. No efects no nothing, (perhaps a bit of hiss!) Very hard and short.

No analogue sounds, (not suprising!) the amount of patches called analogue bass etc. You can have kinda wavetable sounds but with two waves!

Really programable with eight stage everything and an lfo.

The cz however is very different, abviously built to a budget. įirst synth I bought, used to have an early casio home keyboard which was really well built, there was even proper wadding behind the speaker! The Bigger CZ-5000 was much loved by Derrick May. but the CZ-1000 comes with limited effects.a splitable keyboard ideal for hard house & other harder or tech styles, but they'll do pretty much anything if it's creativity from a cheap synth you want as opposed to 'well-known' sounds.no res filters on these tho. these CZ's can create some very good basses too. These CZ's have a hard solid sound, maybe like an Ensoniq Esq sorta hard.?. you can have the resulting voices layered if i remeber, to get 1, 2, or 4 part multi when using a sequencer. like the CZ-101 this goes up to 8 note poly and can be split to deliver 1 or 2 oscillator voices where then as far as i remeber the polyphony drops as you stack oscillators. Has full 49 size keys (about 5 octave scale), comes real cheap around 100 Sterling mark at a bargain price, and all in all not bad for the money.

Casio CZ-1000 Wicked little synth utilising Casio's 'Phas-Distortion' Synthesis.

Casio cz 1000