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Viscount MF01 (1996)

Viscount MF01

Trend price : 50€

Module combines a GM expander and a disk drive Midi file player.

Overview
a kid of half-rack, optional rackmount kit was available.Main panel features a cryptic segment display, a 3.5" floppy drive, 24 buttons and 1 volume knob
Rear panel terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- main out
- pedalswitch input for start / stop


Voice
main core based on a 80C32 8-bits CPU manages 28 voices.

Wavetable
128 standard GM sounds categorized into 16 groups. Sounds can be played directly from Midi but they cannot be really edited but some minor variations.

Performance

up to 16 channels (number 10 is assigned to drum by GM protocol) with some minor options like mute, solo, or transpose.

Memory
The disk drive accepts both 720 kb and 1.44 Mb floppies formated by standard PC-Atari file system, but only Midi files type 0 are accepted. Midi files are directly streamed from the drive (system also outputs MIDI tracks) and some minor changes like tonal transpose can be saved to the disk.


Audio demo:


Video Clip:

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Review
OK: cheap
NOT : display / edit /outdated
"It does sound like a standard Roland Canvas. No particular surprise: GM soundset from the nineties with (quite) no possible edit."

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Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci

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