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From: tre@sdcarl.UUCP (Tom Erbe)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Buying a first synthesizer
Message-ID: <226@sdcarl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 12:40:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 12:40:23 1985
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Organization: Computer Audio Research Lab, UCSD, San Diego, Calif.
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In article <929@mtgzz.UUCP> dmt@mtgzz.UUCP (d.m.tutelman) writes:
>
>-	Casio:  has two new synthesizers, about which a number of people said
>	"don't be scared off by the name; these are real synthesizers."
>	Sorry, it still seemed like a toy.  The parameter setting was
>	abysmally slow and non-intuitive (the salesman demoing it
>	couldn't make it do what I was asking for).  It's only four
>	octaves long.  The advertised 8 voices seem to be only four
>	independent voices in practice.  Relatively few presets.
>	And it was selling for 80%
>	of the price of the Juno and the DW-6000 (~$650).
>
You should have shopped around, I got my CZ-101 for 300 dollars or 40% of the
price of a Juno or DW-6000.  It does have 8 voices, although you can pair the
voices up, giving you 4 detunable voices. It is polytambrel (sp?) over MIDI,
matched only by the SCI Six-Trak in this feature and has extremely flexible
envelope generators (1 to 8 steps, one for the VCA, VCF and VCO).  This 
machine is definately not a toy.

-- 
	thomas r. erbe
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