[Coco] [Color Computer] Orchestra 90-cc information

[Robert Gault]

magickian99 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know of a site to get info on the orchestra 90-cc music 
> synthesizer?
> I have one now and would like to know how to use it.
> Thanks.
> 
> Rev. Ernest Crowe
> 

Do an Internet search and you might find a site. However without the 
owner's manual (over 100 pages), you are going to have problems using 
the pak. The problem is that the built in ROM software does not use 
standard music notation but a text "shorthand" which is nothing like 
sheet music.

The hardware of the ORC pak is 8-bit stereo and can be used by other 
software as long as it is designed to work with 8-bit wave forms. The 
8-bit data needs to be sent to $FF7A (left channel) and $FF7B (right 
channel.)