I have to say that when I recieved my ZO, I was rather unimpressed as
well. I spent days patching messing with it, trying to get what I
considered "my money's worth" out of it. Then little by little it
started to really impress me when I wasn't expecting it, especially as
a modulation source. Now I have these monstrous patches where
practically everything is being controlled (rather, dominated,
manhandled, etc.) by the ZO's multitude of outputs. I was expecting a
DX7, instead I got a Tesla Coil. It's definitely unique and amazing,
it just wasn't (in my personal experience) as immediately gratifying
as most of the other modules I've used.
That's my 2¢'s.

As far as a module similar to the Casio CZ synths, I'm not aware that
such a thing exists, but I would gladly one if it did.



--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Mickey Finn" <hornography@...>
wrote:

>
> Cheers- Yesterday I had the chance to mess with a Zerocillator at

analog haven.. needless to

> say I was underwhelmed. I had grandiose ideas of it's FM and what it

would sound like..

> hmm.. I'm searching for that classic square wave sound of the CZ101

range of gear. I think

> they used a slightly different Phase Distortion type of FM, and that

may be why the sound was

> so good.. anybody else make a FM module
>
> Thanks -Coleman.
>