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My Zurtzweil PC88 seems to be spewing out a torrent of unwanted MIDI info. I went to the input filter to thin it out, and noticed the check box at the bottom: "Input from MMC Devices".

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I have no idea what an MMC device is. Mickey Mouse Club? Anyone...?

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Microsoft Money Calculator.



No, it's for MIDI Machine Control.

It's a MIDI master-slave type protocol. For example, some folk used to slave their Roland VS recorders to DP via MMC.
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I just looked down at my computer keyboard, and the Z is nowhere near the K.
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Tim wrote:I just looked down at my computer keyboard, and the Z is nowhere near the K.
Hi Tim. Do you not know the Zurtzweil brand? No, I guess not. It was well before your time. I thought you might be interested in a picture to help you to expand your knowledge base for future reference. By the way, I've lost the manual. If anyone has a spare one laying around I'd be interested in acquiring it.

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PS: Sometimes us Aussies will accidentally type a letter from the line below. Hence the expression: 'Down Under'. :)
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chrispick wrote:Microsoft Money Calculator.
No, it's for MIDI Machine Control.
It's a MIDI master-slave type protocol. For example, some folk used to slave their Roland VS recorders to DP via MMC.
Thanks Chris.

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chamelion wrote:
Tim wrote:I've lost the manual. If anyone has a spare one laying around I'd be interested in acquiring it.
http://www.kurzweilmusicsystems.com/sup ... ml?Id=1635

BTW, tha'ts Zurzweil. No T in the name.
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chamelion wrote:My Zurtzweil PC88 seems to be spewing out a torrent of unwanted MIDI info.

By the way, I've lost the manual. If anyone has a spare one laying around I'd be interested in acquiring it.

Thanks,

Geoff
Aha, now there's the problem!! As you are so obviously an unauthorised Zurtzweil user, you patently don't realise that without their special dongle you will be inundated with massive amounts of useless MIDI data!!

Stephen :lol:
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stephentayler wrote: Aha, now there's the problem!! As you are so obviously an unauthorised Zurtzweil user, you patently don't realise that without their special dongle you will be inundated with massive amounts of useless MIDI data!!

Stephen :lol:
Curse! My thin tissue of deceit has been revealed... anyway, my dongle is bigger than yours. :)

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chamelion wrote:... anyway, my dongle is bigger than yours. :)

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dweiss wrote:
chamelion wrote:
Tim wrote:I've lost the manual. If anyone has a spare one laying around I'd be interested in acquiring it.
http://www.kurzweilmusicsystems.com/sup ... ml?Id=1635

BTW, tha'ts Zurzweil. No T in the name.
The 't' indicates the model number. I agree that it looks a bit odd putting it right there in the middle of the brand name, but... who am I to tell them how to run their business?

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thinks...phew.. I think I got away with that.
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I see. BTW, that link is to the online PC88 manual.
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dweiss wrote:I see. BTW, that link is to the online PC88 manual.
Is nothing sacred? Does blatant plagiarism mean nothing any more? I hope those scoundrels around at Kurzweil are ready for the intellectual copyright lawsuits the good folk from Zurtzweil will undoubtedly slap on them the moment they discover that their flagship instrument has been brazenly pirated and exploited to the detriment of all!

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Is nothing sacred? Does blatant plagiarism mean nothing any more? I hope those scoundrels around at Kurzweil are ready for the intellectual copyright lawsuits the good folk from Zurtzweil will undoubtedly slap on them the moment they discover that their flagship instrument has been brazenly pirated and exploited to the detriment of all!
I could swear that manual is same as the one from my Flirtswell inflatable doll. No, wait, it's my friend's. Just an acquaintance really. Actually, I don't know him at all. Saw it on the Tele. A friend of a friend's Tele...
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..."A friend of a friend's Tele"...

A likely story...I can imagine it on a Strat, but NEVER on a Tele. :P
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