TECH main core is the HD6475328CP12 (h8/532 family) synthesis based on rompler 16 bits AWM2 advanced wave memory II (mainly IC YMW266-F) manages 64 voices polyphony ; relative DAC is a Burr-brown PCM56P + Ym3029 IC. A TG voice is composed by 4 PCM sample layers each with individual settings:
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volume gain
- analog out assign
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pitch tuning
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stereo panning position
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velocity switch
- keyboard zone
assign
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effect amount |
WAVETABLE MB ROM contains 294 PCM samples at 16 bits resolution into 2 PCM banks A/B
and 16 sound categories for quick retrieval: acoutsic piano, other keyboard, brass, wind, strings, acoustic guitaris, electric guitar, bass, follk- ethnic, synth, choir, tuned percussion, drums, sfx and basic oscillator waveforms.
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P1 PCM bank: 244 samples same from Sy-85 workstation
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P2 PCM bank: 50 new samples.
hear piano EP SAMPLE |
EXPANSION the wavetable can be expanded using some cards usually set of PCM+DATA. PCM cards are compatible with 16 bits yamaha machines inlcuding : Sy-55 / Tg-55 / Ry-30 / Sy-99/ Sy-77 / Tg-77.
ID |
n. card |
name |
Publisher |
pic |
SY8501 |
2 |
Jazz & Funk |
Yamaha |
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SY8502 |
2 |
Rock & Pop II |
Yamaha |
X |
SY8503 |
2 |
Ethnic Sounds |
Yamaha |
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Metrasound |
1 |
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Metrasound |
X |
Pro-rec |
1 |
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Pro-rec |
X |
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SAMPLE-IMPORT internal 512kb of non-volatile RAM can be expanded up to 3 MB using custom SYEMB06 memories. Up to 64 samples can be loaded by Midi dump and directly available in the waveform table under a special category.
PERFORMANCE the MULTIMODE manages up to 16 parts with individual
- volume gain mix
- stereo panning
- pitch tuning
- effect balancing amount
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aftertouch can be assigned to LFO pitch/amplitude/filter, filter cutoff and EG Bias. |
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FILTER single resonant digital filter and 4 preset modes:
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lowpass sets at 2 or 4 poles mode
- highpass
- bandpass
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band reject
hear filter sweep |
LFO a single delayed modulator (shapes are triangle, upsawtooth, sinewave, down-sawtooth, square and S&H with variable phase attac.) and 3 destinations:
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amplitude
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pitch
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filter cutoff
hear lfo |
ENVELOPE system features 3 EGs:
- EG pitch: 4 segments + 4 times + 1 rate scaling with sensibility level
- EG amplitude: 5 segments + 2 times + 4 levels scaling
- EG filter : segments + 7 times + 4 levels scaling.
EFFECT double DSP in serial or parallel mode for a total of 90 editable effects presets including: reverb, flanger, exciter, EQ, delay, phaser, Leslie and ring modulator.
hear flanger effect
EDIT classic programmers are:
- Soundiver (commercial PC/MAC)
- Take500 (Atari ST) PIC
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Galaxy Plus Editors
- VED (commodore Amiga) PIC
- Midiquest (commercial PC/MAC) |
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MEMORY:
- 256 ROM voices
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128 ROM performances
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128 RAM voices
- 64 RAM
performances
- 0KB sample RAM factory.
Sound ram doubled if yamaha MCD64 memory card is fitted
Sample ram can be upgraded by
512Kb for each memory boards SYEMB06 for a maximum of 1024 Kb.
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- LEFT - BATTERY REPLACEMENT soldered CR-2032 3V Battery + 1 Cr for each extra SYEMB06 -
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VST PLUGIN / SAMPLED VERSION there are some free and commercial samples set:
RELATED FAMILY
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SY-85 workstation differences:
- Sy85 has real-time sliders
- half polyphony
- 6Mb ROM (sys85) instead of 8mb (tg500)
- built-in Sample ram for SY85
- disk drive for Sy85
- 2 card slots instead of 4
- less patch ROM/RAM
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RM-50
Very close to Tg500 structure but dedicated to DRUM samples with analog triggers. Use same sample ram boards. |
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