Introducing the Casio CZ-1

A short demo of a loop created with the Casio CZ-1. Passed through a Eurorack Modular Synth mainly to use the filter (KOMA). The CZ-1 feels overlooked to me. It’s fun to have the limitations of the LCD and button interface, it makes getting good sounds out a little harder, but worthwhile, when you do. The Casio CZ series use a phase modulation synthesis technique which they coined “phase distortion“. This dynamically changes harmonic content of a waveform by applying another waveform. They are no “fil