Joel,

Agree with you 100% about the power of this beast. I have the 18-voice version
(Z1 with a 6-voice MOSS expansion card), it cost me $600 a couple years ago. In
my arsenal it was the best $600 I ever spent.

As for your MIDI questions, you are correct in that only a limited number of
parameters can be controlled via CC's, the rest of them must be controlled via
SysEx. What this means is that you must have a controller box that supports
SysEx messages, not just CC's. The Peavey PC1600 and various Kenton boxes
(Control Freak, etc.) support SysEx. The best way to make the box "learn" a Z1
SysEx message is not to refer to the manual (PITA!) but to use your Z1 Editor
for the PC to send a knob/slider function to the controller, then use the
controller's MIDI Learn function to assign a knob/slider to the Z1 parameter you
want to control.


--- In korgz1@yahoogroups.com, "joel_cameron33" <joel_cameron33@y...> wrote:
>
> Well a few things I've noticed in particular.
> There is one key that sounds like loud plastic on plastic every time
> it is struck. The sound comes throug the output normally though so I
> am not too worried. Maybe the padding came loose under the key??
>
> From what I saw in the manual, you cannot control every parameter on
> the Z1 with MIDI CC#'s. Only the ones that have designated controls
> already. Is this true? It would have been nice to hook my MIDI
> knob-box up to the Z1 and have it controlling all of the parameters
> that do not have controls. Did I miss something or is this true?
>
> I can't figure out what all of the rumours about this being a hard
> synth to program were all about. I find programming this beast
> similar to cutting through butter.
>
> I am not so hot on assigning the knobs though but I am sure I will get
> used to it once I really dig in to the manual and have some time for
> it all to fully settle in.
>
> I can't believe I ever lived without this synth!
> Best purchase ever except maybe my V-synth. But at a fraction of the
> cost of the V-synth, I'm thinking the value for $$ is #1.
>