It also makes it much easier to have bright or dark within the patch.

The percentage level control on each envelope really opens up the possibilities in a very big way, allowing the CZV to respond to the player in a much more organic way from modulation. Tomás: Yes I was pleasantly surprised that the real character of the hardware is right there in CZV! And to answer your question I think there are four main strengths, in order of importance:ġ. I was stoked to see three of my sounds in the “Featured” list! Arturia: What are the main strengths of the CZV according to you? Did some specific features or aspect positively surprised you in the instrument? Now I can finally put those away and use the sounds in a much more organic way in CZV with the Macros. Several years ago I deep-sampled 102 of my favourite CZ patches for Kontakt (you can still hear those here). With CZ-V my archive of patches since 1992 has really come back to life. The patches from the washing machine used the resonant waves in ways I hadn’t thought of so it was fun to explore this happy accident. It originated from a set of patches that were accidentally randomised when my CZ RAM cartridge ended up in the washing machine! Amazingly it still worked! After that I worked on the sound for a long time to get the release and atmosphere. My favourite patch in this set is called Atmosweep. So I think this could be interesting for all you music technologists out there! Arturia: What is your favourite preset and why did you choose it? I also found an old photograph of my first studio, which I talk about towards the end. Just before the release, Arturia interviewed me for their Artist Page, but I cannot wait to talk to you all about this so I have published it here. So after a few months under a Non Disclosure Agreement, I can talk about the new Arturia CZV plugin because it has been released for a few weeks now.Īrturia found me originally because of my long-running blog post all about the Casio CZ series of synthesizers which you can read here.

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