This auction is for a Roland LAPC-1 LA Sound Card for IBM PC As-Is For Parts or Repair.

Roland LAPC-1 LA Sound Card for IBM PC As-Is For Parts or Repair

This card is being sold for parts or repair only, as I do not have a way to test it.  
Roland LAPC-1 LA Sound Card for IBM PC 
The Roland LAPC-I is a sound card for the PC  produced by Roland in the mid to late 80s. It basically consists of a multi-timbral MT-32 synthesizer compatible CM-32L and a MPU-401 unit on a single full-length 8-bit ISA card. 

The card can be used like an MT-32 synthesizer module for music production or it can be used as a PC sound card. If you are into retro computing or retro sound, this is a rare opportunity to get a piece of quality kit.

A quick insight into the eighties video game market: Games produced for the PC around this time supported a wide variety of sound cards and not just Sound Blaster. Before Sound Blaster became the dominant standard, developers supported all the top end sound cards to ensure that when the games press reviewed the games on their high end, full specced systems they got the best musical experience possible. Check out YouTube to hear examples from that time.

This LAPC-1 is boxed and hasn't been heavily used - it was used until the early nineties by various games developers producing products for a publisher who discarded it when MT-32 support became unnecessary. It comes with a sheaf of documentation which includes the original manual and a photocopied version of the MPU-401 programmers reference guide. This document includes pencil written notes from the last programmer to use it. Both documents are well thumbed and tatty, held together by treasury tags. The user manual is available as a PDF on the Roland site but I've not found the MPU-401 document published elsewhere.

The LAPC-1 is a full length ISA PC card. To use it you'll need a PC that takes a full length (13 inch) ISA card. A studio rack mounted system might be another way to use it, but please consult your studio technician before purchase. 

The item will be very well packed and will be shipped via EMS(Express Mail Service) with tracking details.We accept Paypal.

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