Please note that it may take a few weeks for us to fully morph into Gearspace so you may still see mentions of the old name in various parts of the forum - rest assured we are working on it and by mid-April it should be sorted.Probably more chance of Behringer cloning a CZ synth than Casio remaking one.
Yamaha had these features on their consumertoy keyboards going back to the 80s but it seemed quite rare on Casio models. Style Casio Ctk731 Series Those HaveOnce you get to the MZ and XW series those have proper synthesizer features but I consider those to be more prosumer models than home keyboards. Style Casio Ctk731 Manuals For MostIm not that familiar with the ones that came after that, but the user manuals for most of them are online. Im assuming you already know about the HT series but theyre a fairly interesting DCO analog filter architecture. Casio really blew it with the HZ600 - if they had put the synth engine from the HT6000 into it I think they would have had a real contender even though that era was the transition to digital synthesis and DCO synths were already pass. The CT-X1 is nicer than the CT-670 (it adds a digital reverb), but you probably wont find one. If youre making dance music, it can make some extremely aggressive bass sounds. Its kind of a rehash of the earlier Casio models, but with VCFs. Im probably gonna grab the cheapest one (without pitchbend or velocity) and do an entire record on it. Wish they would go back to putting cheap built-in mics and samplers in them though. YOLO. Its hard to tell without having an audio demo, but its probably nicer than my entire setup was in 1995. You can make some SCARY good sounds with these things, theres a guy on youtube who emulates an Oberheim and a Moog in different videos.SHOCKINGLY good. Id take it one step further and say ANALOG FILTER(s) they dont have to be top of the line, just something that gives you the necessary Liveness to your harmonic content. Style Casio Ctk731 Plus It WouldAnd then you could lose the resonant waves and the entire DCW section, making the synth a simpler design.so add 100 to the price, do a two-way Roland style Pitch and Mod Joystick (In the original you had a pitch wheel and had to press a button for a preset amount of vibrato.That wasnt great either).add nothing to the price.there is really no added cost in doing that, plus it would mean less buttons and menus, it would actually be simpler. Man, if they did THAT.Look out M1.or is it the DX7 (Bestselling synth ever) EVERYONE and their stupid friend is buying that. If theyre releasing this synth again, they should do it with full sized keys. If it were Keith Emerson advocating that we should all downsize to minikeys, then it would carry more weight. No velocity and if you used the two lines, polyphony dropped to 4 voices. Since it was my only keys at the time, I struggled to find ways round this. Then I got a wurli-derived elec piano of my own and the polyphony problems went away. The appeal of the 80s Casiotones were all their quirks - everything from lo-fi samplers, analog filters, scratchpads, to strange sounds and weird auto-rhythms and super-synthetic drum sounds triggered from those little yellow pads. The new Casio keyboards are just ROMplers with nothing really interesting or quirky about them, imo. They had not only velocity and pressure, but also side to side modulation. Casio are not the kind of company that would consider a new version of one of their classics I think. I think they remember how they miscalculated the digital synthesizer revolution, replacing the CZ-1 with the VZ-1 thus spending three years developing a next generation followup that would be able to beat the DX7 for real - in a time where Roland already had crushed the DX7 with the D-50, and the M1 had been released as well. Nobody understood what Casio and Kawai did in 1989 with the K5 and the VZ. ![]() The SY77 also came along like an angry sea monster from the digital underground, providing the same strong type of digital engine as these while meeting the M1 and D-50 in their areas as well. Kawai rushed out the K4 to salvage things and Casio said bye bye to the synthesizer market. The real story is that Casio wont spend any kind of appropriate RD money into developing a new unknown product. Think of every product theyve released in the past umpteen years and its been a basic evolution of their recent meh. For instance, for their last serious foray into synthdom the vaunted XW series if Casio has developed or even licensed a proper VA synth (and dug a little deeper into the quality department on the ROMpler side) it might have gone down a lot better.
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