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Magna Organ introduced in 1935, [7] [8] was a multi-timbral keyboard instrument invented in 1934 by a Yamaha engineer, Sei-ichi Yamashita. It was a kind of electro-acoustic instrument, an acoustic instrument with additional electronic circuits for sound modification.
The keyboard models included a ribbon controller and an input for a breath controller, making them the most expressive electronic instruments available at the time. Additionally one could add digital input/output (I/O) to connect S/PDIF or ADAT inputs and a program RAM (PRAM) expansion for loading larger soundsets or MIDI songs into memory.
Yamaha PSR-290 electronic keyboard A MIDI song played on a Casio electronic keyboard. An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments. [1] Electronic keyboards include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations.
Clavinova CVP-303 Player Piano. The Clavinova is a long-running line of digital pianos created by the Yamaha Corporation.The name is a portmanteau of the two words Clavier meaning 'keyboard instrument” and nova meaning “new”.
Many of these keyboards were designed for children with small keys and simple preset functions suitable for educational use. [1] In 1982, the line introduced a card reader system which allowed players to learn and play along with sequenced songs. [ 2 ]
Yamaha YM2420 (OPLL2) is a variant with slightly changed registers (intentionally undocumented to avoid hardware piracy), used in Yamaha's own home keyboards.It has the same pinout and built-in FM patches as the YM2413, but several registers have parts of the bit order reversed.
The CP has six sound models taken from Yamaha's CP4 stage piano: a Rhodes Mk.1, a Rhodes Mk.2, a Wurlitzer, a Clavinet, a Yamaha CP80 and a toy piano. [9] The keyboard has a maximum polyphony of 128 notes. The Reface CP also has an effects engine that includes drive, phaser, tremolo, delay, reverb and chorus effects. [12]
The XG-compatible Yamaha S-YXG50 SoftSynthesizer, which is discontinued, is an entirely software-based MIDI synth. It used a 2 MB or 4 MB wavetable sound set, and was common among non-professional users who needed a cheap, high-quality MIDI synthesizer for purposes such as playing video games that rely on MIDI for their music.