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Polyphemus and Casio CZ - a match made in heaven.

jonmoorejonmoore
in App Tips and Tricks

I decided to pick up Casio CZ whilst it's half price as I had a feeling it would be a perfect partner for Polythemus because it features four separate CZ synths each with its own assignable MIDI channel.

And it turned out to be a good hunch, as it not only sounds awesome with the chord voicings spread out through the stereo field, the CPU overhead is the same for all four synth engines as it is for one. The onboard FX ain't bad either and they come for free too (CPU cost).

I'll let the pictures do the talking as the setup is really easy but if you already own Casio CZ you should definitely give it a go with Polythemus. And at $9.99, even though it's not likely to ever be converted to AUv3, it's great value for what's on offer and sounds so massive when Polythemus is sending each chord note to a different Synth instance.

A note ref the effects, the Room algo on the reverb is ok when used in moderation, but the Chorus and Compressor are excellent. There are five diverent Chorus algo's that each increase in strength, but I found when panning the voices of the four seperate synth engine instances, Chorus 1 (the most subtle) is more than enough as things are already sounding big and wide. The Chorus simply fills in the gaps in a really nice way.



Comments

  • midiSequencermidiSequencer

    any audio we could hear?

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    It's late now but I'll put something together at some point over the next few days.

  • midiSequencermidiSequencer

    @jonmoore said:
    It's late now but I'll put something together at some point over the next few days.

    cool - I don't own CZ so this might sway me....

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @midiSequencer
    Don’t get me wrong, CZ is as frustrating as it's great seeing as it sticks rigidly to the original CZ design. It has none of the modern niceties we've become accustomed to such as copy and paste of envelopes and such like. And those envelopes are very fiddly on anything but a large Pro.

    However much like the original series of synths, the CZ is capable of timbres that are unique (somewhat midway between subtractive and FM) and with 4 septate CZ engines, it's actually twice as powerful as the CZ-5000 (the pinnacle of the original range), which stacked 2 separate CZ engines.

    You can use those 4 separate engines as discussed in my original post or you can do something similar to wavetable synthesis as the 8 stage envelopes are nice and long (that's up to 8 stages, it's user configurable); and that can lead to long evolving pads where each engine acts as different sonic aspects of the patch.

    At $10, that seems worthwhile to me, even with the frustrations.

    I should hopefully get the time to post an audio example over the next 24 hours.

  • midiSequencermidiSequencer

    @jonmoore said:
    @midiSequencer
    Don’t get me wrong, CZ is as frustrating as it's great seeing as it sticks rigidly to the original CZ design. It has none of the modern niceties we've become accustomed to such as copy and paste of envelopes and such like. And those envelopes are very fiddly on anything but a large Pro.

    However much like the original series of synths, the CZ is capable of timbres that are unique (somewhat midway between subtractive and FM) and with 4 septate CZ engines, it's actually twice as powerful as the CZ-5000 (the pinnacle of the original range), which stacked 2 separate CZ engines.

    You can use those 4 separate engines as discussed in my original post or you can do something similar to wavetable synthesis as the 8 stage envelopes are nice and long (that's up to 8 stages, it's user configurable); and that can lead to long evolving pads where each engine acts as different sonic aspects of the patch.

    At $10, that seems worthwhile to me, even with the frustrations.

    I should hopefully get the time to post an audio example over the next 24 hours.

    cool - look forward to it.

  • jonmoorejonmoore

    @midiSequencer Apologies for the delay. I've been deep in a remix project the last few days and it slipped my mind but I've just quickly programmed a couple of patches that show of the combinational power of Polythemus and Casio CZ. The patterns are simple but I've looped them each to play for around 30 seconds so you can get a sense of the animation in the stereo field.

    The first is a raspy Oberheim brass type timbre. The clap's are in there just to accentuate with the width of the CZ. Also of note, I'm only playing dyad's and passing notes but the four notes of round-robin polyphony adds a lot of movement

    Obie-ish brass - https://d.pr/a/u7vCgD

    The second is a classic detroit-vibe square lead, that's quite pure in tone but with a hint of dirt too. This pattern is mainly triads but with diad passing notes. Yet again Polythemus spreads the voicing of the chords across the stereo field and animates the voices via round-robin voice allocation.

    SquareDance - https://d.pr/a/0WAWXE

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