Holy shit. The Casio FZ-1 and I are dating now.
so I wasn’t even looking for a sampler. that’s a lie, I’m always looking for a sampler. but I definitely wasn’t looking for THIS one and now it’s on my desk and I’ve done nothing productive in two days.
the thing that gets me isn’t even that it’s a sampler. it’s that you can sit there and draw a waveform. by hand. with the slider. like you’re doodling a sound into existence and then it comes out sounding like a haunted vending machine and I cannot get enough of it. run that through the filter, crank the resonance til it starts screaming at you, and honestly what else do you need in life.
Why did Casio stop making this shit? like they made this thing and others in the 80s and dipped.
anyway I know it’s old and lo-fi and there are better samplers, don’t care, this one’s got a soul or whatever. if you find one for cheap just get it, trust me.
