Casio CZ 5000

How not to use a casio CZ 5000's onboard sequencer.

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Music

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• Casio
• CZ
• 5000
• CZ5000
• Sequencer
• Phase
• Distortion
• Cat
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• Reginald
• Bowls
• iii

[arpquadra]

Put a beat over that and and Dave Gahn from Depeche mode and you would have a new DM track.Very good,sounds analogue even though its phase distortion synthesis.I have one without the manual,would love to be able to get the sequencer to work on mine.Cool vid

[reginaldbowlsiii]

It's a bit backwards without knowing exactly which buttons to press but I'm sure you can figure it out.. Just make sure you have batteries in it.

[tgies]

Those your patches? Nice.

[reginaldbowlsiii]

Yep I sold them when I sold the board..

[moreteamrshifter]

don,t kid yourself fella, original stuff here. Cat is kickin too...

[reginaldbowlsiii]

God I miss that cat...

[chekovboy101]

Have you programmed this in as one long song, or have you found some way of making the sequencer work as a live-looper? I'm just starting out with CZ5000 and looking to use it alongside a monotribe to do witch-house type stuff. Live-looping would be awesome.

[SouthOCmixdown]

Ending reminds me of parts of Atom Heart Mother Suite(?), by Floyd. Good stuff. I'm looking 4a decent CZ-5000/1000, if anyone has one 2sell. Owned a CZ-1000 when I was 12-13, and then traded it 4a Juno-106 when I was 17. Not a bad trade eh? But still, I wish I cud have found a way 2hold onto the CZ. Bought it new in 1985(with grassmowing$), and the membrane buttons already started 2fail. So that's why I'm considering the 5000 now. More grownup, sturdier board that still has all the nostaglia. :)

[Alm1ghtyAv3ng3r]

lol nice to start...

Crazy finish xD - but I suppose all us keyboard geeks have to do it sometime!

[soundbuffet]

why batteries ? if its plugged to current ?

[TheSynthFreq]

Excellent CZ-5000 sequencer video! :)

I have a CZ-5000 but I never use its sounds, but this video is a great example of the "FM-ish" sounds you can get from it. My CZ-5000 somehow still has its original slider caps for the volume and chorus, and they came off too easily at times, thats prob why most CZs dont have thiers after all these years. Too bad someone couldn't modify a CZ-5000 with knobs to replace the buttons on it. I might program mine more then. LOL :) TSF

[1986uno45s]

@gavin916freak The CZ 5000 uses batteries for memory backup, the synth itself is mains powered. And yes, all the CZ series have midi in/ out :-)

[benskia]

Dood! That was my first synth. About 20 years ago!

Nice one.

[mdentari]

Not bad at all. If you use some software samplers/synths. It would be a good single release. As funky as the CZ sounds it might be holding you back a little.

[gavin916freak]

Batteries you say? is this battery powered?

also does it have midi in/out?

[dvamateur]

Damn, I tired to figure out the CZ-5000, but I couldn't... Great job man. It looks like such a fun instrument in your hands. Thanks a lot for posting.