An Insider's Guide to Casio CZ Synthesizers

By Andrew Schlesinger

A practical 'hands on' guide to programming high quality sounds on the Casio CZ1, 101, 1000, 3000 and 5000 synthesizers by one of the foremost authorities on CZ programming. It provides an excellent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882843672
• ISBN13: 9780882843674
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 0.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice book !

This book helped me a lot to understand some details about my CZ 5000 that the manuals don't cover. The sound examples are not the best, but they help to undestand the basic of the CZ synthesis. every one who is a beginner and have a CZ must buy this book ;)

Great Book on the CZ and Synth Programmming...

Not quite sure what the guy below is talking about here. I have a CZ-101 and also a CZ-1, both received used with the manuals, which were not the best. So I picked up this book to see if there was anything more I could get out of these machines and was not disappointed as the CZ's re pretty powerful little sonic beasts even by today's standards.The book is really clear and easy to read and the details on how the various parts of the CZ work really make it clear how to get the most from these synths. Though I know a decent amount about synth programming the sections on sound could be very helpful to less experienced users.Bottom line is the book made the CZ's more valuable and useful to me and was well worth the purchase. I'd recommend it to any one with a CZ.

A must buy for any Casio CZ series owner.

If you have a Casio CZ synthesizer and you like to program it, then you must have this book. There are also plenty of juicy tips in here that apply to synthesizers in general. You are guided step by step through each feature of the CZ, and you get tips on how to exploit them fully. This book will open up your CZ for you, and show how to get the sounds you want from this under-rated and powerful synthesis system.The reason I didn't give it four stars is that the chapter on multi-timbral operation is misleading, because the CZ series (except the CZ-1) have a frustratingly limited implimentation of this MIDI function.With this book, your CZ becomes an invaluable addition to your synthesizer phalanx!