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First post, by DaveJustDave

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Roland-LAPC-1-LA-Sou … &orig_cvip=true

geez! $1025! though seller claims it's new-old-stock, I find that claim a bit shady.. looking closely the pieces don't exactly look new. I hate to think what an SCC would go for.

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Reply 2 of 11, by badmojo

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They've been up around that price for years now I think? They truly fall into the collectors item category in my mind - you can still get an MT-32 for reasonable money and there are plenty of options for intelligent MPU-401s these days. Same goes for the SCC1.

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Reply 3 of 11, by gdjacobs

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Yup, if you want intelligent mode, just get a HardMPU card or a v2 MusicQuest remake card.

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Reply 4 of 11, by CrossBow777

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Damn! I guess i best hold onto mine that I picked up in a plain brown box of that same size and type from a Goodwill for about $10 USD back in the early 2000s then?! Only thing I never like about the card was that it had hanging note issues as I recall, and the fact that it is such a large expansion card being a full size card, but the tower PC I have it in, didn't have brackets for the back of it, so I have a small box or something under it that supports it inside the case it is installed in.

Had no idea these were fetching that kind of money. Now that I have an MT-32 and my MT-200 maybe I should look at selling it?!

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Midi Modules: MT-32 (OLD), MT-200, MT-300, MT-90S, MT-90U, SD-20

Reply 6 of 11, by CrossBow777

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Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

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Midi Modules: MT-32 (OLD), MT-200, MT-300, MT-90S, MT-90U, SD-20

Reply 7 of 11, by dionb

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CrossBow777 wrote:

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

Could it be timing issues with your vastly faster system than what it was designed for?

Reply 10 of 11, by lvader

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dionb wrote:
CrossBow777 wrote:

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

Could it be timing issues with your vastly faster system than what it was designed for?

I running on an MMX 233 with no issues

Reply 11 of 11, by CrossBow777

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dionb wrote:
CrossBow777 wrote:

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

Could it be timing issues with your vastly faster system than what it was designed for?

Possible I guess? But I actually have both primary and secondary cache disabled on that system when playing Wing Commander which drops it down according to benchmarks to about a 386 25mhz system in speed.

I haven't fired up that system in over 4 years, but it is an old Asus TX97e with an AMD K-5 200mhz in it, 32mb ram and like a 20gb HDD I believe? I also have it paired with an original release SB-16 that I added the DSP chip to for Q-sound support that was available separately back in the day. But I disabled the Midi addressing on the SB-16 and have the LAPC-I line out going into the Line-In on the SB-16 to provide the mixed audio output.

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Midi Modules: MT-32 (OLD), MT-200, MT-300, MT-90S, MT-90U, SD-20