{"id":153480,"date":"2026-05-15T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153480"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:22:18","slug":"casio-fz-1-sampling-synthesizer-hardware-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/15\/casio-fz-1-sampling-synthesizer-hardware-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"Casio FZ-1 Sampling Synthesizer Hardware Mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Casio FZ-1 - New Hardware Upgrades in 2026\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jsdT8zMGCyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This video, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DeftAudio\">DeftAudio<\/a>, explores a variety of hardware mods that are available in 2026 for the <strong>Casio FZ-1<\/strong> sampling synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p>The Casio FZ-1 mods include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floppy Emulator based on FlashFloppy<\/li>\n<li>OLED screen replacement<\/li>\n<li>A new 1MB Memory Expansion board (a recreation of the original FZ-1 upgrade)<\/li>\n<li>A new Parallel port Data Loader Software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jsdT8zMGCyY\">post<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video explores a variety of hardware mods that are available in 2026 for the\u00a0Casio FZ-1 sampling synthesizer.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/15\/casio-fz-1-sampling-synthesizer-hardware-mods\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Casio FZ-1 Sampling Synthesizer Hardware Mods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[316,33596,36320,3530,1113],"class_list":["post-153480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","category-samplers","tag-casio","tag-casio-fz-1","tag-deftaudio","tag-mods","tag-synth-diy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/casio-fz-1-sampling-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153482,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153480\/revisions\/153482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}