| Model |
Released |
MSRP |
Synopsis |
Ebay Description |
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1987 |
$2195US |
The FZ family was Casio's attempt to enter the professional sampling market. In addition to sampling, the FZ family featured both additive and subtractive synthesis capabilities. Besides samples, sources can be preset, additive, or hand drawn waveforms, similar to Korg DSS-1. Hohner rebadged the FZ-1 as the HS-1. |
The Casio FZ-1 is a (pressure and velocity sensitive) 61 key, 8 voice multitimbral digital sampling synthesizer, featuring additive (48 harmonic), oscillator (5 waveforms or hand drawn), or sample (16 bit, 9-36kHz) sources, digital resonant low pass (24dB) filter, and dedicated 8 stage filter and amplifier envelopes per voice, along with LFO, 8 presets, 3.5" DSHD disk drive, and MIDI. Sample editing includes dual loops with cross-fade, reverse, mix resample, cross-mix splice, and truncate. |
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1987 |
$2499US |
Rack version with 2x sample memory |
The Casio FZ-10m is a (pressure and velocity sensitive) 3U rack, 8 voice multitimbral digital sampling synthesizer, featuring additive (48 harmonic), oscillator (5 waveforms or hand drawn), or sample (16 bit, 9-36kHz) sources, digital resonant low pass (24dB) filter, and dedicated 8 stage filter and amplifier envelopes per voice, along with LFO, 8 presets, 3.5" DSHD disk drive, and MIDI. Sample editing includes dual loops with cross-fade, reverse, mix resample, cross-mix splice, and truncate. |
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1987 |
? |
FZ-10m with SCSI |
The Casio FZ-20m is a (pressure and velocity sensitive) 3U rack, 8 voice multitimbral digital sampling synthesizer, featuring additive (48 harmonic), oscillator (5 waveforms or hand drawn), or sample (16 bit, 9-36kHz) sources, digital resonant low pass (24dB) filter, and dedicated 8 stage filter and amplifier envelopes per voice, along with LFO, 8 presets, 3.5" DSHD disk drive, SCSI, and MIDI. Sample editing includes dual loops with cross-fade, reverse, mix resample, cross-mix splice, and truncate. |
