New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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Just announced today, and on sale for $59 until 14 DEC 2015:

http://www.uvi.net/en/synth-sound-design/cameo.html

Cameo Phase Distortion Suite focuses exclusively on the CZ-series.

It would have been nice if they also included the VZ-series (which I owned briefly, but found too fiddly in spite of its great sound and its uniqueness in terms of accepting wind controller input and Guitar MIDI input in special operating modes).

I have a modeled CZ-101 plug-in, so it will be interesting to compare.
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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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I have a CZ-3000, but would love to have an official VI version of the CZ for OSX. Casio has released a CZ for the iPad, so it seems there is some interest in this synth series.
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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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billf wrote:I have a CZ-3000, but would love to have an official VI version of the CZ for OSX. Casio has released a CZ for the iPad, so it seems there is some interest in this synth series.

This might be a better option........

http://www.pluginboutique.com/products/1158-VirtualCZ
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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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I own Virtual CZ and it is quite good.

UVI has a smaller sample set for the CZ's in one of their vintage collections, but I think this deeper/larger instrument is from new sampling sessions and also involves advanced synth features of UVI Workstation etc.
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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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Oli Larkin and Don Solaris created presets for VirtualCZ? You surely couldn't go too far wrong with that.

If only it was a little cheaper (say, $50 instead of $99) for a cheapskate like me...

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VirtualCZ is excellent, easily worth the price if you like CZ synthesis.
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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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monkey man wrote:Oli Larkin and Don Solaris created presets for VirtualCZ? You surely couldn't go too far wrong with that.

If only it was a little cheaper (say, $50 instead of $99) for a cheapskate like me...
Oh, you just missed their Black Friday sale. The CZ was going for 40% off. Keep an eye open, hopefully they'll discount it again for a Christmas sale.

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Re: New Casio CZ-series sound set for MachFive/UVI/Falcon

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Today only Virtual CZ $49.50 at plugin Boutique

http://www.pluginboutique.com/products/ ... c7cd1c8c14
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