Great little synth utilising Casio's 'Phas-Distortion' Synthesis. Has full 49 size keys (about 5 octave scale), comes real cheap around 200-400 Sterling mark at a bargain price, and all in all not bad for the money.... like the CZ-101 this goes up to 8 note poly and can be split to deliver 1 or 2 oscillator voices where then as far as i remeber the polyphony drops as you stack oscillators.... you can have the resulting voices layered if i remember, to get 1, 2, or 4 part multi when using a sequencer.
These CZ's have a hard solid sound, maybe like an Ensoniq Esq sorta hard... with an edge... these CZ's can create some very good basses too.... ideal for hard house & other harder or tech styles, but they'll do pretty much anything if it's creativity from a cheap synth you want as opposed to 'well-known' sounds....no res filters on these tho..... but the CZ-1000 comes with limited effects...a splitable keyboard.
The Bigger CZ-5000 was much loved by Derrick May.... these CZ's are worth looking at.
If you want to get into classic Casio CZ sounds but don't have the hardware you can use Plugin Boutique's VirtualCZ Synth available here - This plugin can load and use actual Casio CZ patches so can also act as a librarian software for the physical hardware units: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4-Synth/1158-VirtualCZ
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