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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] The PSS line features mini keys and the PSR line features full size keys.
This is a list of products made by Yamaha Corporation.This does not include products made by Bösendorfer, which has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation since February 1, 2008.
Japanese Master System, Sega Mark III, MSX (in MSX Music cartridges like the FM-PAC, and internally in several Japanese models by Panasonic, Sony and Sanyo), Yamaha Portasound digital keyboards (PSS-140, PSS-170, PSS-270) Silicon-gate NMOS LSI chip [69] [33] [63] YM2604 (OPS2) / YM3609 (EGM) 1986 96 16 6 Yamaha DX7 II and TX802 digital synthesizers
Yamaha PSS-570 49 mini-keys 21-sounds, 5 steps sliders, additional YM3301 chip [17] for drums (1987) Synthesizers that use the YM2413 (cost reduced YM3812): [16] Yamaha PSR-6 49-keys 100-sounds (1994) Yamaha PSS-140 37 mini-keys 100-sounds (1988); the PSS-140 actually uses the YM2420, a slightly modified variant of the YM2413 with different ...
Korg SP-100: An 88 key velocity sensitive hammer-action simulation keyboard. Weighing just over 40 pounds, the 32-note polyphonic Korg SP-100 is a truly portable (and affordable) answer for the gigging musician. The 88-note hammer action keyboard is velocity sensitive with three selections for touch control: Light, standard and heavy.
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. Yamaha YM2423 (OPLL-X) is another YM2413 derivative. It has the ...
Weighted keyboards indicate that some kind of effort has been made to give the keyboard more resistance and responsive feel similar to that of an acoustic piano. Semi-weighted keys is a term applied to keyboards with spring action like a non-weighted keyboard but that have extra weight added to the keys to give them more resistance and ...
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.