Arturia CZ V Virtual Instrument, Download
CZ V is a software reimagining of Casio's CZ-1 and CZ-101 synthesizers, designed as a response to the FM instruments of the '80s. Explore the distinctly malleable sounds of phase distortion synthesis, reshaped with cutting-edge plugin flexibility.<Br><b>Digital done differently.</b><BR><B>Modeling done flawlessly.</B><bR>Casio's phase distortion synthesis was a relative of FM but simpler to use, achieving patches that sounded both 'digital' and 'analog' with equal ease.<Br>It became a sonic staple for artists including Eurythmics, Salt-N-Pepa, and Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure), who famously stacked up eight CZ-101 synths and a sequencer. CZ V gives you more of what the CZ was loved for in every way - and more.<bR><b>Expertly Engineered</b>Our DSP crew reverse-engineered the core code of the CZ, then added features to make phase distortion even more compelling today.<Br><bR><b>Shockingly Flexible</b>The CZ series is used on all kinds of songs because it produced so many sounds so well. Let CZ V do the same for you.<BR><bR><b>CZ = EZ</b><bR>Wringing a ton of sonic range out of just a handful of parameters, CZ V is one of the quickest paths from a sound in your head to sound in your speakers.<bR><B>Turbocharged</B><Br>We amped up the CZ with up to 32 voices of polyphony, four FX slots, eight envelopes, and everything but a flux capacitor.<bR><bR><b>A different kind of distortion</b><bR><b>Phase distortion, like FM, involves one oscillator modulating another.</b>Phase distortion's uniqueness comes into play by altering the time domain of the carrier wave, yielding a different oscillator wave shape entirely. By changing the linearity of how a simple waveform plays, like speeding up the start of the cycle, it's no longer a simple waveform. That's the concept at the heart of phase distortion synthesis and CZ V's sound.<b>DCO > DCW > DCA</b>Each DCO in CZ V lets you select from the 8 original waveforms or draw your own. Some serial combinations of two different waveforms are provided for, resulting in many more possibilities. Each DCO is followed by a corresponding digitally controlled waveshaper (DCW) section, including key follow and an 8-stage envelope generator. This animates the amount of waveshaping from the modulator over time. There's also an eight-stage envelope for DCO frequency, allowing for pitch-change effects far beyond vibrato, trills and lasers. A digitally controlled amplifier (DCA) with its own eight-stage envelope rounds out a DCO>DCW>DCA signal chain roughly equivalent to that of analog VCO>VCF>VCA.<Br><b>Between the lines</b><BR>Like the original, the CZ V has two complete DCO>DCW>DCA signal lines that you can use individually or in parallel. Duplicate settings in each line allows for a fatter sound given the ability to transpose and/or detune them, while separate settings provide for much more complex timbres. You might, for example, shape a hyper-percussive sound in one line and craft a pad in the other to combine into...
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