Casio vz editor3/12/2023 ![]() It features a pleasant, velocity- and pressure-sensitive keyboard, 192 patches and 192 combinations on-line at any given time, extensive performance controls, and enormous editing possibilities. ![]() Yet the VZ1 is, on the face of it, a useful synthesiser. Something must be seriously wrong with a series of synths for them to fail like the Casios did. ![]() In comparison, Korg's flagship M1 was launched at almost the same time as the VZ1 and priced around the £1500 mark. Even in a fashion-orientated industry, prices slashed to that extreme are, well, extreme. ![]() In the States, the VZ10M is now selling for $239 ( £120) and the VZ8M for $189 ( £95). In only two years the asking price for a VZ1 crashed from £1299 to about £350, while the VZ10M dived from £899 to little over £200. Despite a positive MT review in September '88, the VZs died on the streets. Three less fortunate instruments are the Casio VZ1 (keyboard), VZ10M (rackmount), and their less powerful brother, the VZ8M. Some were destined to become classics, others to fade into obscurity. MANY SYNTHS HAVE come and gone over the years.
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