[Coco] Speech Systems Symphony 12 & Piano attachment

[Brian Blake]

Greetings CoCoNutz,

This one may be testing some brain cells, as I've never seen this device in
the wild - only in Rainbow ads...

I recently bought and assembled the Philharmonic 12 (Speech System Symphony
12 repro), and am really wanting to test it's 12 voices. Currently, no
Symphony files exist in the CoCo archive. The Musica files play fine
(mostly), but are only 4 voice compositions. The Speech Systems ads from
BITD show a 61 key keyboard attached, that uses a CZ-101  cartridge(?) to
connect to the CoCo.

Does anyone know anything about these devices? I'm wondering if a MIDI
keyboard and adapter would act similarly in the Symphony XII software. In
my reading so far, this isn't mentioned, though Speech Systems also sold a
CoCoMIDI program and cartridge...


If anyone has any info on these Speech Systems products (beyond what is in
the CoCo Archive) I'd love to arrange to get a copy uploaded to the
archive. I'd really like to test the Philharmonic out to 12 voices


Thanks,

Brian


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