Vintage Synth Explorer

Casio • VZ-1 / VZ-10M

The VZ-1 is a full-sized, 5-octave, velocity & pressure sensitive keyboard utilizing the IPD tone generation (a type of Phase Distortion synthesis) and offers 16 note polyphony. It's a digital synth capable of some great strings and "polite 80's sounds". You could use up to four sounds for splits, layers, velocity, cross-fades, etc. It has a large, blue, back-lit LCD display for editing patches. Editing is in-depth and quite a different approach than other synths before it. Its sounds are akin to the Casio CZ-series and sort of Yamaha DX-like. It's not particularly cool, but it looked impressive in its day with the blue back-lit graphical display.

The Casio VZ-10M is a rack mount version of the VZ-1.

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JaM

Posted 33 days ago

The specs are wrong... the VZ-1 doesn't have a delay FX onboard.

Dekatran

Posted 77 days ago

My first keyboard back in 1981 was CASIO CT405. I love Casio and all nostalgic sound from this company so now I am a happy owner of 2 VZ1 and I want more,... maybe another 2 from Hohner or something from CZ series. I have DX7, DX2FD , TX802 and TX816. The sound from Casio VZ1 is not thinner than DX/TX synths its just different. And sometimes the same as TX816 or fatter. Believe me

a33e

Posted 125 days ago

And take that space out of URL so that it could work. Somehow this site added it there..
BTW. If editing feels too hard i suggest MOTU Unisyn MIDI editor for this. It just must be used in 95/98 compatibility mode unless you have that old windows in use.

a33e

Posted 125 days ago

Sorry danny, VZ synthesis differs from CZ serie.. though this is more advanced it cant produce exactly same sounds as CZ's.
Here's btw few sound examples of my VZ8M which uses same iPD synthesis as VZ10.
http://a.33e.biz/huutonet/vz8m/-sam ples/

danny busse

Posted 187 days ago

i just bought an vz 10 m today for 150 euros ! in mint condition and 2 manauls with it
i had an cz 5000 in back 1988 !
just for nostalgia im gonna use the vz 10 m on my logic studio pro
now i have to find out to get some sounds back on this machine that sounding like the cz 5000

greets danny belgium 17-05-2009

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