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 😊 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWuOvJKeoLOwYrQ.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.

@RunningonairMusic

Жыл бұрын

glad you liked it!

Sounds spot on pretty much! The emulations are getting really good!

@williamtell1477

Жыл бұрын

Well okay there a couple patches that arent quite right. I preferred the real Koto by a mile.

@RunningonairMusic

Жыл бұрын

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.

@RunningonairMusic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

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.

@RunningonairMusic

Жыл бұрын

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.

@richardsmith4992

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@RunningonairMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@richardsmith4992 yeah, that's one of the issues I have with my CZ1, it just takes up so much space.

I think the main problem is the velocity between them. It sounds like the plugin gets to 127 quicker... which happens often with plugins.

@RunningonairMusic

11 ай бұрын

Could be.

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?

@RunningonairMusic

Жыл бұрын

Not sure, I think I might do a bit of digging, as there are some significant differences in places.

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...

@RunningonairMusic

Жыл бұрын

They're not the most exciting presets, in a lot of cases. Sax sounds on synths should be band in my opinion 😄