Jokeyman123 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Holy Batcave. Batman! I'd heard these were "seminal" synths but check this out. There are 2 on eBay right now. I am seriously tempted. I can see seeds of the XW-P1 in this one. Sounds like Joe Zawinul with Weather Report-on a Casio! and some guy modified his with more knobs to control other synth parameters in realtime-similar to what the XW-P1 can do. and this has midi din in and out, not many older "consumer" keyboards had that. Hmmmmm, boy am I going to be in the doghouse with one more keyboard! I better like dog food. Maybe I sell my XW-P1 and get this to replace it....no...no...no! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Very cool little Casio's those HT's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ta152c Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I had one, but gave it away. The one I'd love to get is the HZ-600 'SD' one, sounds like a Roland Alpha-Juno 1. Casio synths were stunningly good and really easy to use. So is a DX7, all that nonsense spouted about 'needing programming skills' etc. Most of the time you only alter a few parameters. CZ-1 is a beautiful synth to use. David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 I know-why I've been re-sold on all the newer ones I have now. I started with the CZ-101 (after several older analogs including one of the original Pro-one Sequentials I should have never sold but was an awful lot of trouble. Then I purchased a CZ-2000 and several EZ-CZ cartridges, then the CZ-1. I went crazy prgramming these with 100s of sounds, great fun but I went a little too OCD! Unfortunately for my OCD Casio created the XW-P1, and it even has many (but not all!) the sounds from the olde CZs-AKA the "Cosmo" synths. I wonder if that's where Cosmo Kramer got his name, I had to say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 On 3/28/2016 at 0:52 PM, ta152c said: I had one, but gave it away. The one I'd love to get is the HZ-600 'SD' one, sounds like a Roland Alpha-Juno 1. David. David, the HZ600 is nothing more than an HT3000 minus the speakers and drums/ rhythm section - the sound engine is otherwise identical. The HT700 is the same as the HT3000, except with mini keys and minus the modulation wheel. They all use a form of synthesis that Casio called "Spectrum Dynamics". The only HT synth that was radically different was the HT6000. This had 4 x "oscillators" compared with the rest of the HT range that only had one. It also has a velocity sensitive keyboard, ring modulation, more memory and more onboard patterns. Saying that, all HT's can sound sweet if you program them well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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