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Yamaha's in-house songwriters often utilized these tools to demonstrate the power of the XG format, notably recreating Jimi Hendrix leads complete with feedback, flamenco guitar with distinct pick/hammered notes and finger slides, growling saxophones, and even a very convincing sitar .
The Yamaha SHS-10, known in Yamaha's native country, Japan, as the Yamaha Sholky, Sholky being derived from "Shoulder Keyboard", is a keytar (a musical keyboard that can be held like a guitar) manufactured by Yamaha and released in 1987.
The keyboard contains a scaled-down version of Yamaha's Advanced Wave Memory (AWM) tone generation system, which is a PCM sample-based synthesis engine. The samples are an adaptation of Yamaha's earlier PortaTone series of home keyboards produced between 1997 and 2006, as well as the MU-series sound modules produced from 1994 to 2002.
Yamaha P-120. The Yamaha P-120 is a portable electronic piano, released in 2002. The 88-key so-called "GH" keyboard is action-weighted, imitating the feel of a real piano. It includes several sample keyboard sounds, such as harpsichord, clavichord, vibraphone, guitar and more. Basic sequencing and editing are built-in.
Rundgren contributed the keyboard part but was left uncredited. Gregory: "We really didn't know what to do with it. It was just a 'B' side, and he could obviously see possibilities in it. One afternoon, we just left him to it." [12] The snare was sampled from the Utopia album Deface the Music (1980). Because of recording logistics, Prince and ...
The PlayStation 2 was the best-selling system of the sixth generation, selling over 160 million units, also making it the best-selling console of all time.. The PlayStation 2 [6] [7] [8] achieved sales dominance in this generation, becoming the best-selling console in history, [9] with over 160 million units sold as of November 2024. [10]
Weidenbaum discussed how the composition of the "Cliffs" mix in particular was enhanced by "the clanking of what seems to be a manual typewriter". [109] In 2008, the orchestra Alarm Will Sound released a live performance album, Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin , featuring two tracks from Volume II : "Blue Calx" and "Cliffs".
The Roland Sound Canvas (Japanese: ローランド・サウンド・キャンバス, Hepburn: Rōrando Saundo Kyanbasu) lineup is a series of General MIDI (GM) based pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound modules and sound cards, primarily intended for computer music usage, created by Japanese manufacturer Roland Corporation.