Thank you and bravo for this very well done video ! I made demos in the 80's for the CZ series, they were ones of the first multi-timbral machines and VERY affordable compared to the Sequential Circuits 6Track. I did not purchased one because of the poor quality of the DAC and no separate outputs. Still, since then, I kept in mind their qualities and when I discovered that the Virtual CZ was compatible with the Sysex files that I kept from the Atari 1040 period, I took it. The software is inexpensive and very good with compatibilitiy. It can emulate several CZ machines but I can't hear any difference bewteen a CZ-101 and a CZ-3000, despite the fact DACs have been improved on later machines . I created several sounds with it and it is far quicker than on the original product ! If you are curious, here is my first piece using Virtual CZ with the famous whistle sound that was so famous at the timre 😊 ruclips.net/video/c7ZZ0epPJ2Q/видео.html I made some other pieces almost exclusively dedicated to CZ, but with Arturia's CZ V that bring Phase Distortion far beyond the CZ series, still keeping compatibility with sysex too.
More depth in tone, both in the lower and the higher frequency domains and variations on the real thing. The guitar and bass sounds are good examples to illustrate it.
@@RunningonairMusic - Huh? 🙂 The synth that looks like a normal picture (not Red/blue ‘coloured out’) is the one we’re listening to at that time, right … ? Many thanks for this! 😎👏🏼
To me, it sounds pretty close a lot of the time. Other times it seems to deviate quite a bit. Overall I'd say it sounds a bit too clean. Similar with the arturia vst.
@@RunningonairMusic Yep. I have the plugin and a CZ5000, the plugin is great for quick voice editing and transfer to the CZ etc, but I wouldn't use it as a CZ replica...but then virtualCZ doesn't weigh 15 kg and use enough power to light my house...so that's a plus.
Thank you and bravo for this very well done video ! I made demos in the 80's for the CZ series, they were ones of the first multi-timbral machines and VERY affordable compared to the Sequential Circuits 6Track. I did not purchased one because of the poor quality of the DAC and no separate outputs. Still, since then, I kept in mind their qualities and when I discovered that the Virtual CZ was compatible with the Sysex files that I kept from the Atari 1040 period, I took it. The software is inexpensive and very good with compatibilitiy. It can emulate several CZ machines but I can't hear any difference bewteen a CZ-101 and a CZ-3000, despite the fact DACs have been improved on later machines . I created several sounds with it and it is far quicker than on the original product ! If you are curious, here is my first piece using Virtual CZ with the famous whistle sound that was so famous at the timre 😊 ruclips.net/video/c7ZZ0epPJ2Q/видео.html I made some other pieces almost exclusively dedicated to CZ, but with Arturia's CZ V that bring Phase Distortion far beyond the CZ series, still keeping compatibility with sysex too.
glad you liked it!
Sounds spot on pretty much! The emulations are getting really good!
Well okay there a couple patches that arent quite right. I preferred the real Koto by a mile.
Some patches are really close and others not so much. Either way, It's still a nice plugin to have available.
More depth in tone, both in the lower and the higher frequency domains and variations on the real thing. The guitar and bass sounds are good examples to illustrate it.
Thanks for listening
Can you have maybe an arrow or something pointing to which one is on? I'm not sure which one I'm listening to
The highlighted one is the one that's on.
@@RunningonairMusic highlighted how? You mean red/blue is the one playing?
Red is the highlight
@@RunningonairMusic - Huh? 🙂 The synth that looks like a normal picture (not Red/blue ‘coloured out’) is the one we’re listening to at that time, right … ? Many thanks for this! 😎👏🏼
correction. Sounds are played hardware then software.
Are they setuped different? On some presets they are pretty different, modulation deph, attacks
They should be the same as the patches are imported from the CZ1
whats the name of the electr. piano preset in the virtual cz? I cant find it!
I only used the OG patches from the CZ1
@@RunningonairMusic how did u „recreate“ them on the virtual cz?
I just imported the sysx files from the CZ1
@@RunningonairMusic are they somewhere available to load into the virtual cz?
I think the main problem is the velocity between them. It sounds like the plugin gets to 127 quicker... which happens often with plugins.
Could be.
The virtual CZ seems brighter in many cases. (Also louder, but hey.) In many cases they sound nearly identical. The virtual sax was awful 8:50...
They're not the most exciting presets, in a lot of cases. Sax sounds on synths should be band in my opinion 😄
Many patches sounds far, far off from the original, like nowhere near the same. Then there were patches that sounded identical. What is up with that?
Not sure, I think I might do a bit of digging, as there are some significant differences in places.
CZ-1 by a 1.6K. The virtual sounds OK, but the CZ sounds like a CZ, the plugin sounds like a lot of different things, not all bad, just not CZ-ey.
To me, it sounds pretty close a lot of the time. Other times it seems to deviate quite a bit. Overall I'd say it sounds a bit too clean. Similar with the arturia vst.
@@RunningonairMusic Yep. I have the plugin and a CZ5000, the plugin is great for quick voice editing and transfer to the CZ etc, but I wouldn't use it as a CZ replica...but then virtualCZ doesn't weigh 15 kg and use enough power to light my house...so that's a plus.
@@richardsmith4992 yeah, that's one of the issues I have with my CZ1, it just takes up so much space.