ME-50

There have been various families of Yamaha audio controllers labelled asYMF7xx. The last model number for controller chips used onISAbus cards is 719; chips used onPCIcards start at 720 and higher. Chips for PCI bus standalone adapters are marked YMF7x4, while on-board or embedded systems are marked YMF7x0. The DS-XG series features hardware-assistedXGMIDIsynthesis with either 32- or 64-notepolyphony, full-duplex playback and recording at any samplerate (internally upsampled to 48 kHz), external game controller and MIDI interface, and a legacy block forDOSapplication support.

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