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Compatible Sound ROMs
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Modifications
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Owner Registry
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System Components
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Yamaha
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Specifications
- LFO
- sine, sawtooths, triangle, sample-and-hold; can control pitch, amplitude, cutoff,etc.
- Dates
- (Japan) December 1, 1989
- Price
- (Japan) ¥300,000
- Filter
- lowpass (12 dB or 24 dB), highpass, or multi-pole
- Effects
- 2 reverb units (40 effect types) and 2 modulation units (4 effect types)
- Keyboard
- 61 keys with velocity sensitivity and aftertouch
- Polyphony
- 32 (16 AFM layers, 16 AWM layers), shared between up to 16 voices
- Oscillator
- sine wave and 15 harmonically enhanced variants thereof
- Timbrality
- 16 voices, each containing up to 2 AFM layers and 2 AWM layers
- Manufacturer
- Yamaha
- Storagememory
- 64 custom patches can be stored in battery-powered onboard RAM
- Synthesis type
- DigitalFrequency modulation,DigitalSample-based
- External control
- MIDI
- Left-hand control
- Pitch-bend, 2 modulation wheel