The CZ Patch Library is an independent product that is not built by, marketed, endorsed or supported by Casio.
What is it?
Please visit our new website lewismidi.com/czpl for more information and to order!
The CZ Patch Library (CZPL) is an essential companion for the Casio CZ series of synthesizers. It contains:
- 2,186 presets. Brasses, basses, pads, leads, percussion, drums, it’s all in there.
- 10,000 memory slots to store the patches you create on the CZ! No longer are you limited to saving only 16 or 32 patches.
- 1,000 memory slots to store entire banks of patches. Save and recall the entire memory of your synthesizer at once! Perfect for live performance or building your own custom soundsets.
- An arpeggiator with features from the Roland Jupiter-4 and Korg microKORG arpeggiators. The Casio CZ series comes to life when you add an arpeggiator. Latch, keysplit, external and internal trigger.
How do I connect it?
Connect the CZPL to your Casio CZ-101, CZ-1000, CZ-3000, CZ-5000, CZ-1 or CZ-230S synthesizer with 2 MIDI cables and power the CZPL via USB or a 9V power adapter (center positive).
You can then connect external gear to the CZPL and all MIDI messages will be passed through to the Casio. This lets you use sequencers and external controllers without having to unplug and plug cables.
How do I use it?
What presets are included?
This is a demonstration of an earlier version, with 1000 patches. This model contains 1186 more than are shown here!
- Basses
- Brasses
- Drums
- FX
- Pianos/EPianos
- Organs
- Strings
- Synths/Leads/Pads
- Tuned Percussion
- Voices
- Winds
How can I get one?
Please visit our new website lewismidi.com/czpl for more information and ordering!
SUPPORT
Please contact me: iestyn.lewis@gmail.com
The latest firmware version is 3.03. To determine your device’s firmware version, unplug your CZPL and plug it back in again. Immediately after the CZPL “splash” appears, your firmware version will be displayed. If you do not see a firmware version displayed, you have version 2.0 firmware. If you would like to upgrade your firmware, please contact me for directions.
Firmware Version History
- 3.03 - Additional arpeggiator latch mode which matches behavior of other synthesizers’ arpeggiator hold function.
- 3.02 - Expanded arp sequence to 64 steps, added Operational Memory bank save/load for CZ-1, added MIDI Bank/Program Change.
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3.01 - Major version release with CZ-1 support, bank storage and arpeggiator. (v3.01 manual)
- 2.03 - Minor fix (random patch display was not updated).
- 2.02 - Added CZ-230S mode. Fixed MIDI IN latency problem.
- 2.01 - Added manual random patch selection.
- 2.00 - Initial version.