CASIO FZ-1 vintage sampler synthesizer

CASIO FZ-1 with matching CASIO volume pedal and re-printed manual

Fully operational - with the exception of the LCD backlight ( which is a $25 part on ebay )

Includes the Casio 1 Meg memory expander board (MB-10). This board doubles the sample memory of an FZ-1 sampler to the maximum of 2 Meg ( see photo )

Disk drive functions and formats ( see photo's ) includes 3 blanks disks.

Cosmetics are not the greatest and it has dent ( no effect on what is inside ) on the top, so I called the condition good.

All keys , bender and mod wheel work

* Reminder, when you boot use the LCD button and slider to get best LCD resolution.

Inside is clean in general with a little rust on the inside case by the heat sink ( photo's )

All the pre-set waveforms produce sound, it does not come with pre-sets.

Features:

The Casio FZ-1 is an impressive sampler/synthesizer keyboard from the 1980's. Its offerings at the time were very professional features. In an 8-voice polyphonic full 61-note keyboard synthesizer you get a 16-bit digital sampler with variable 9kHz to 36kHz sampling rates. 1MB of memory expandable to 2MB could provide a maximum time of almost 2 minutes sample time at 9kHz. Up to 64 samples can be held in memory and placed across the keyboard. Graphic editing on the big LCD screen provides intuitive and easier editing of your samples with tuning, truncating, looping and much more. It also has eight outputs and analog-like 8-stage filters (DCF) and envelopes (DCA).

Surprisingly the FZ-1 also has a built-in synthesizer section. It uses digital synthesis employing both harmonic additive synthesis and waveform drawing. Basic waveforms available include sawtooth, square, pulse, double sine, saw/pulse, random waves and 48 harmonics. The FZ-10M (pictured above) is the rack-module version of the FZ-1 with 2MB internal memory and XLR inputs and outputs. With the look and features you'd expect from a vintage pro-sampler, this Casio has been used by Underworld, Kronos Quartet, Dee Lite, 2 Live Crew, and Kitaro