KVR Audio

KungKrille · Post by **KungKrille** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:08 pm

I did a crazy thing and purhased a CZ 3000 just like that. I borrowed a CZ 5000 a long time ago and this one sounded just as I remembered it

It's a lot easier to program than my TX81Z but it would still be great to use an editor for PC. I have googled a bit and haven't found much except the expensive Sound Quest thingy. Do you know if there's a cheaper or even free alternative?

grabme · Post by **grabme** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:27 pm

This is all I can come up with although I'm surprised there aren't more choices available, I haven't had a chance to try it yet but I have a CZ5000 with absolute terrible presets and would like to modify them asap. Would be interested to hear back whether the editor works ok and if you come across any decent patches please send a link.

Thanks

http://www.synthzone.com/midi/casio/cz101/

Its the cse02install file that you need.

KungKrille · Post by **KungKrille** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:49 am

grabme wrote:This is all I can come up with although I'm surprised there aren't more choices available, I haven't had a chance to try it yet but I have a CZ5000 with absolute terrible presets and would like to modify them asap. Would be interested to hear back whether the editor works ok and if you come across any decent patches please send a link.

Thanks

http://www.synthzone.com/midi/casio/cz101/

Its the cse02install file that you need.

That's one of the extremely few links I found myself before posting here and the software does not work unfortunately.

Twiddle Tweak wrote:If you're on a PC, I would buy a used copy of SoundDiver for dirt cheap. Even though the program is 15+ years old now and has been discontinued, it's still the best program of its kind (including Sound Quest which I own as well).

I run SoundDiver on my Windows 7 64-bit machine without any problems.

I searched ebay but haven't found any seller yet that I would trust. It's a good suggestion though so I will check ebay regularly. Thanks for the replies guys

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:48 pm

Did you ever find one? I'd be interested to know if this works on Win7 for the CZ3000...

http://www.kasploosh.com/projects/CZ/CZSYSEXY/

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:44 pm

KungKrille wrote:
Twiddle Tweak wrote:If you're on a PC, I would buy a used copy of SoundDiver for dirt cheap. Even though the program is 15+ years old now and has been discontinued, it's still the best program of its kind (including Sound Quest which I own as well).

I run SoundDiver on my Windows 7 64-bit machine without any problems.
I searched ebay but haven't found any seller yet that I would trust. It's a good suggestion though so I will check ebay regularly. Thanks for the replies guys

+1 for SoundDiver. An alternative could be SoundQuest:
https://squest.com/Products/MidiQuest11/index.html

KungKrille · Post by **KungKrille** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:55 pm

Krim, I had to sell the CZ but tried that editor. It does work on both Win 7 and Win 8 but actually made editing a lot harder. There's no way to listen to the patches while you are programming them. If I remember correctly it doesn't send sysex so you need to use another software like MidiOx to transfer your edits. So the workflow is programming in CZSYSEXY with no audition, save as sysex, load it into MidiOx and then send to the CZ.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 2:01 pm

Really? Thats poor. Theres one on ebay locally i might get so was looking for an editor (tho everything is pretty much there on the synth anyway)

Thanks.

cucking · Post by **cucking** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:17 pm

Have some editor called Midi Quest (and Midi Questo Pro), for Windows and Mac, if you have, please send me some notification for this use. Thanks.

bftucker · Post by **bftucker** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:49 am

I believe the new Virtual CZ can be used as an editor for all the CZ types.

Recreates the unique synthesis engine of the CZ synths
(it models the flagship CZ-1 but does all the other ones too!)
Works as a SYSEX editor/librarian for all CZ hardware as well as an emulation.

http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=virtualcz

You might want to try the demo.

wickamos · Post by **wickamos** » Mon May 11, 2015 10:19 pm

If you have an iPad or iPhone, I've released a CZ editor called CZ Touch! It edits patches and also works as a patch librarian, so you can name and organize your sounds. The page for it is here: https://coffeeshopped.com/cz-touch

syntheticillusion · Post by **syntheticillusion** » Thu May 14, 2015 6:26 am

bftucker wrote:I believe the new Virtual CZ can be used as an editor for all the CZ types.

Recreates the unique synthesis engine of the CZ synths
(it models the flagship CZ-1 but does all the other ones too!)
Works as a SYSEX editor/librarian for all CZ hardware as well as an emulation.

http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=virtualcz

You might want to try the demo.

Actually it only reads all CZ models but it only saves CZ-101 MIDI/Syx files and VSTPreset
DXT, FXP, AUPreset files but it's a shame because I saw a CZ-5000 100% Working for $100
on ebay and then it was gone the next day but the cz-3000 is more rare to find an editor
for windows then the cz-1000/cz-101 but you can import the cz-3000 model syx you have
to go to the file menu and set the sysex to cz-3000 to be able to read, they have all models
of CZ's but one rare one that they gave away presets for, I lost them when I reformatted or
I'd tell you what two models were CZ230, CZ101, CZ1000, CZ3000, CZ5000 which are most
common but the cz3000 is harder to find on ebay, then the cz5000 for reasonable price.

Casio CZ 3000 and editor