page_title: Casio CZ synthesizers
section_title: CZ-3000
hierarchical_section_title: Casio CZ synthesizers / Individual models / CZ-3000
caption_attribution_description: Casio CZ-3000 Synthesizer
context_page_description: The CZ series is a family of low-cost phase distortion synthesizers produced by Casio in the mid-1980s. Eight models of CZ synthesizers were released: the CZ-101, CZ-230S, CZ-1000, CZ-2000S, CZ-2600S, CZ-3000, CZ-5000, and the CZ-1. Additionally, the home-keyboard model CT-6500 used 48 phase distortion presets from the CZ line. The CZ synthesizers' price at the time of their introduction made programmable synthesizers affordable enough to be purchased by garage bands. Yamaha soon introduced their own low-cost digital synthesizers, including the DX-21 and Yamaha DX100, in light of the CZ series' success.
context_section_description: The CZ-3000 synthesizer used the same phase distortion engine as the CZ-101 and the CZ-1000, but added the following features:
  The synthesizer had eight voices instead of four voices (16 oscillators instead of eight)
  It was possible to split the keyboard (in other words, have some keys play one sound while other keys played another sound).
  The synthesizer had 61 keys, not 49 keys
  There was a built-in stereo chorus effect
  Instead of having just a pitch bend wheel, the CZ-3000 had both a pitch bend wheel and a modulation wheel.
caption: Casio CZ-3000
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