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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.
Yamaha XG is a superset of the General MIDI standard that added several proprietary extensions. The most notable additions were the 600 instruments and 32 notes polyphony. XG was introduced in 1994 with the Yamaha MU-series line of sound modules and PSR line of digital keyboards .
This meant that a musician could not, for example, plug a Roland keyboard into a Yamaha synthesizer module. With MIDI, any MIDI-compatible keyboard (or other controller device) can be connected to any other MIDI-compatible sequencer, sound module, drum machine, synthesizer, or computer, even if they are made by different manufacturers.
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.
Like the MX100A, MX100B, and Wagon Grand, the MX80 recorded on 3.5-inch (89 mm) double-density floppy disks and recorded performances in a Yamaha-proprietary file format called E-SEQ, a forerunner of the subsequent industry-standard file format known as Standard MIDI Files. All of these instruments featured ports for MIDI input and output.
Specializes in tuning; converts ascii score file to MIDI. Seq24: Linux, Windows: GPL-2.0-or-later: Piano roll: MIDI loops sequencer. Sibelius: macOS, Windows: Proprietary: Avid (originally Sibelius Software) Score, piano roll, tablature: Live scoring of sheet music from MIDI input. Signal: Web Open source Signal Piano roll, event list Studio ...
MIDI files do not contain any sounds, only instructions to play them. To play such files, sample-based MIDI synthesizers use recordings of instruments and sounds stored in a file or ROM chip. SoundFont-compatible synthesizers allow users to use SoundFont banks with custom samples to play their music.
The Yamaha DGX-620 is the name of a digital piano (also known as the YPG-625).The lettering DGX encompasses the word Digital Grand whereas YPG stands for Yamaha Portable Grand, and the only difference between the names are the markets they are sold in. [1] It was released by Yamaha Corporation in late 2006, the first model of the DGX/YPG series with weighted keys.