[rec.music.synth] Rolands LAPC-1 Card

rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (01/24/90)

	Has anyone seen/heard the Roland LAPC-1 Sound/Midi card for
	the IBM PC?  Is it any good? How much does it cost?
	

	On a related note, what is the general opinion of the two books
	(oh, what is their titles!) _Midi Programming in C_ and _* Midi *_
	both by the same publisher.


	Thanks for the help.
	-----Dale
		Rogerson-----

todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) (01/25/90)

In article <2900@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
>
>	Has anyone seen/heard the Roland LAPC-1 Sound/Midi card for
>	the IBM PC?  Is it any good? How much does it cost?

A friend of mine bought six (6) of them... The sound is very good. Much
better than the old MT-32 type sound (slightly noisy) I expected to hear.
The unit is also MPU-401 compatible so most software (all I've seen so far)
intended for the MPU-401 works with it.

Good stuff. Certainly much better the awful IBM Music Feature I bought. I
still can't understand how to write code for the Music Feature.

The list price for the LAPC-1 is $595....todd
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