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The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include motorcycles (see Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989.1 Products
- Digital Pianos
- Yamaha Clavinova series (CLP-170 and CLP-175 being top-of-the-line)
- Synthesizers
- Yamaha DX7
- Yamaha SHS-10
- Yamaha AN1xYamaha AN1x, produced by Yamaha Corporation in 1997, is an analog physical modeling synthesizer, digitally modeling analog sound. It is part of the wave of analog-digital synths using DSP modeling of analog waveforms to recreate the sounds of an analog sy
- Sound chipA sound chip is an integrated circuit (i. chip") designed to produce sound (see chiptune). It might be doing this through digital, analog or mixed-mode electronics. Sound chips normally contain things like oscillators, envelope controllers, samplers, filts
- Yamaha YM2149 - used in the Atari STThe Atari ST was a home/ personal computer system released by Atari in 1985. The "ST" allegedly stood for "Sixteen/Thirty-two" which referred to the Motorola 68000's 32-bit internals with 16-bit external buses. Other theories say that ST really stood for, MSXMSX is the name of a standard for home computers in the 1980s (see also 'The Home Computer Era' in the History of computing hardware). Overview MSX official logo MSX was conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi of Microsoft Japan, now ASCII Corporation, who was attemp, IntellivisionThe Intellivision was a video game console released by Mattel in 1980; development of the console began in 1978 (less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the legendary Atari 2600 aka the Atari VCS). History The Intellivision was dev and ZX SpectrumThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Based on a Zilog Z80 CPU running at 3. 50 MHz, the Spectrum came with either 16 KB or 48KB of RAM (an expansion pack was also available to upgr computers
- Yamaha Y8950 - used in MSX-Audio cardridge for MSXMSX is the name of a standard for home computers in the 1980s (see also 'The Home Computer Era' in the History of computing hardware). Overview MSX official logo MSX was conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi of Microsoft Japan, now ASCII Corporation, who was attemp, made by PhilipsCompany logo Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. Royal Philips Electronics), usually known as Philips is one of the largest consumer electronics producers in the world. In 2003, their sales were €29. 0 billion and they employed 164,000 people in more
- Yamaha YM2413 (a.k.a. OPLL) - used in MSX in MSX Music cardridges like the FM-PAC
- Yamaha YM3526 (a.k.a. OPL)
- Yamaha YM3812 (a.k.a. OPL2) - used in AdLib and early Sound Blaster sound cards
- Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3) - used in Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards
- Yamaha YMF278 (a.k.a. OPL4) - always used together with YMF262, used in Moonsound cardridge for MSX
- Yamaha YMF7xx (Embedded audio chipset in some laptops and low-end soundcards)
- Pro Audio
- Digital Mixers
- Analog Mixers
- Audio Workstations
- Mixing Engines
- Signal and Effect processing
- Speakers (powered and unpowered)/(active and passive)
- Home Electronics
Yamaha developed their own set of improvements to the General MIDI standard and called it XG. Many of their current range of products, from their high-end synths to "toy" keyboards, support the XG standard.
