"White" by Mark Thibideau.
For my track I used the Casio CZ-101 as the prime source of sound. There is a lot of personal history with me and this synth. It was one keyboard I had a fascination with since I was a kid. Our town's local music store (Tom's Music Centre) had one of these and it had a hefty price tag of 500 bucks. For the time it was cutting edge as it used a very unique technology called "Phase Distortion Synthesis". Basically the concept of it was very much like its Yamaha FM counterparts. I think at some point Yamaha and Casio battled over rights for the technology. However, this machine seemed to have a warmer sound and be slightly easier to program. At the time, it was the closest thing in our town to a real synth. I would spend hours in the music store playing with this keyboard. Although I've never owned one of these synths, there always seems to be one around my place. People lending it to me or just leaving it behind. Over the years I've gotten some pretty cool mileage out of this keyboard.
It has been really handy for this track. All sounds including drums were made on this synth recorded into protools like samples. Then I mixed the sounds out thru the ATB console.
I really did rely heavily on processing this thing through my evolver's filter in spots ( for swooshy sweeps), some massive Eventide H3000 processing and lexicon reverb.
They are also perfect for live sets as you can always tuck it under your arm and go. Gotta love the mini keys. The only downfall is the limited memory for saving your patches. There are also always the wonderful presets you can rely on like "trumpet" and "Brass Ens" ( you cant write over these!).
For those in need of a new and cheap synth that you will never want to get rid of... get one of these.
Mark
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