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  1. IanB
    Yes, I'd guess your battery is dead. That's your starting point. Nobody expected these synths to be in service 40 years later!
  2. IanB started following CZ-5000, Help, I broke something! , Saving patches to my CZ-5000 and CT-6500 MIDI Question
  3. IanB
    If you're on Windows, try my patch editor VZV-CZ, it can write and read direct to the memory slots. Link in my sig. Do you have patches in any of the memory slots that actually work, and is your internal battery ok? Ian
  4. IanB
    This might be a DAW settings thing. According to the 6500 manual, it should accept MIDI timing. I'd try this but mine isn't setup to play with at the moment. You can get the manual from archive.org, I'd upload it but it's too big https://archive.org/details/manual_CT6500_OM_CASIO_EN
  5. IanB
    I agree with Chas, it may well be that the volume fader is kaput and what you're hearing faintly is "stray" signal that being high pitched happens to be just audible. You can also plug a jack or RCA phono lead into an amplifier and touch the tip to the input connection of the volume fader to see if you can hear anything through the amplifier.
  6. IanB
    Just my two cents, I tried a bunch of DAWs last year seeking to settle on one and ended up preferring Cubase Pro, it just seems to work the way I do. But it's really a matter of taste isn't it? Which workflow feels most comfy. Cakewalk is also very good and currently free.
  7. Zarquon

    Are there any special settings on the CT-6500 to set for it to receive the patches from VCV app? I can connect and see note change info appearing in the monitor, but not receiving patches to the buffer...

    Works fine on my CZ1.

    Using proper MIDI to USB  cable.

    1. IanB

      IanB

      Hi sorry didn't see this message until now.

       

      It should just work. Bear in mind you can only change the live patch in the CT6500's edit buffer. So you can't send patches to it's patch banks but any changes you make live to the current sound should work. If you're using it in multi-timbral mode you can edit the live patch on each of the 4 MIDI channels it's using.

  8. IanB
    The VL-Tone was a fabulous creation. But Casio seemed to not understand what they had.
  9. IanB
    Small "further to" what @pianokeyjoe just said, the CT can operate as 4 synths in one (same number of voices, divided into 2 poly and 2 mono synths) and you can write to the edit buffer on all of them so repatch them all using their separate MIDI channels. The rhythm section also operates on a separate MIDI channel. So the CZ schematics offer help, but there are various differences as we already have seen.
  10. IanB
    Hello everyone I'm just having a read of this thread (haven't paid attention as my day job is intense hours wise at the moment). Nothing to add but all most interesting!
  11. IanB started following Adopted beautiful old Casio 401 - turns on, hum, but no sound.
  12. IanB
    People still love the CZ synth engine, and I've also been baffled since 1982 or whatever as to why they never developed the VL-1 (VL-Tone) further. It was like they never realised what they had.
  13. IanB
    Great!
  14. IanB
    I've submitted version 1.12 to the Microsoft Store which fixes this bug and it should become available for download shortly once they've validated it. You should get an update popup when you launch the app once the certification is complete🙂 This is one of those bugs that has me wondering why nobody ever noticed/reported it before! Thanks for your helpful feedback @Bay Mud😃
  15. IanB
    @Bay Mud Thanks for pointing it out, it's amazing how one can spend ages writing an app and miss obvious things until somebody points them out. Then you wonder why nobody else has🙂 This appears to be that bad habit of programmers counting from zero, so you go 0, 16, 32, 48 but when you're counting from 1, as with patch numbers here so it's 1, 17, 33, 49... I'll sort this out and post an update to the Microsoft Store over the next few days.
  16. IanB
    Hi @Bay MudI'll have a look at this and get back to you. First impressions here is that it's a goof on my part! 1+32 is 33, not 32, oops!
  17. IanB
    Excellent comments from Chas above. The RIFA looks ok (they normally fail apocalyptically) and aren't required for circuit function anyway (you can just remove it if you want tbh, it's there to comply with regulations basically). It certainly won't work with missing fuses!
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