Re: Speech Systems Symphony 12 & Piano attachment

If you have the Symphony 12 driver for Lyra, I think that will support up to 8 voices.  Bill Nobel also has a Symphony 12 I believe; he may have some demo stuff that came with it that will use all the voices. 

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> On Aug 11, 2025, at 8:56 PM, Brian Blake via Coco <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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