Trend price : 100€
Rackmount expander version of Sy-55 synthesizer.
Company: Yamaha
Model: TG-55
Class: Module Expander
Weight: 4,2 kg
Dimensions:
430 (w) x 405 (h) x 88 (d) mm
Dates: 1989
Synthesis: PCM rompler
Resolution: 16 bits
Polyphony: 16 voices
Multitimbric: 16 parts
Oscillator: 4
Filter: Digital Low pass
LFO: 1
Effect: 34 models
DAC:
AD1856N
CPU: H8/523
Demo: 1
Video: 1
Review 1
DOWNLOAD: user manual - Tg55 free sound patch collection -
Overview
Main panel features a 16 X 2display, 18 buttons and a data encoder
Terminal connectors:
-
Midi interface
-
main out
-
AUX out
-
headphones
- PCM card slot
- data card slot
Sound
unit manages up to 16 voices based AW2 Advanced Wave Memory 2 synthesis.
The patch main architecture is composed by 1, 2 or 4 PCM oscillators or ELEMENTS.
Wavetable
2 MB ROM contains 74 waveforms at 32 or 48 kHz / 16 bits organized into 3 macro categories:
- 50 PCM acoustics: piano, organs, guitar and more
- 8 PCM basic
digitals: saw, square and more
- 16
PCM drums and percussions
Filter
2 digital resonant filters in cascade, they both feature a -12dB slope.
- Filter 1 mode is both lowpass and highpass
- Filter 2 mode is only lowpass.
LFO
single delayed digital modulator for each ELEMENT and 3 destinations:
- AMOD: amplitude
- PMOD: pitch
- CUTOFFMOD: filter cutoff.
Envelope
there are 3 EG families per element:
- AEG amplitude : 4 segments + 5 levels and octave scaling setting
- PEG pitch: 4 segments + 5 levels and octave scaling setting
- CEG1 filter: 6 segments + 5 levels and octave scaling with breakpoints
- CEG2 filter: same as CEG2
Effect
34 fully editable effects including reverb, delay, gate and distortion
Memory
-
64 ROM patches
- 64 RAM patches
-
16 ROM performances
- 16 RAM performances
Review
OK: cheap / filter / many parameters
NOT : polyphony / edit / some outdated PCM
"Still after many years the Tg55 is a surprise! double resonant filters are very cool for digital cutting sweeping pads and complex EGs! of course no use for modern acoustic instruments.
Cheap and understimated"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci
