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Yamaha TX-16w
Digital Wave Filtering Sampler (1988)
Digital Wave Filtering Sampler (1988)
Company: Yamaha
Model: TX16W
Country: Japan
Weight: 7 Kg
Dimensions: 372 (w) x 480 (h) x 94,5 (d) mm
Class: Module sampler
Rackmount: 2 units
Display: 2 x 40 lines LCD
Dates: 1988
Price: 100€ original price: $2300
Polyphony: 16 voices
Multitimbric: 8 parts
S.Resolution: 12 bits
S. range: 16-50 khz
Filter: digital 17 models
LFO: 2 modulators
Envelope : 2 EG
Memory: 1,5 up to 6 mb
Sequencer: none
Sync: none
Effect: none
Storage: DD 720 kb
Midi: IN / OUT / THRU
CPU: MC68000
DAC: BB PCM56P
OS: latest Typhoon OS back in 1988, the original TX16W YAMAHA OPERATING SYSTEM was a total disaster: sluggish and painful. 5 years later, the 3-rd part Swedish company NUEDGE developed a new more efficient OS TYPHOON 2000 with enhanced features e.g better memory handling, CPU optimization, AIFF samples import, new filters and more. OS can be downloaded for FREE
The main panel features a 2 x 40 lines display, 8 push buttons and 12 numeric pads.
The two unit case is quite similator to FM module Tx802 and Drum module PTX8.
Front panel terminal connectors:
- headphones
- footswitch input (bipolar)
- sample input (with pad switch LINE/MIC impedance)
Back panel terminal connectors:
- EXT port which is RS-422 data transfer
- Midi interface
- main signal out
- 8 mono analog aux outputs
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VOICE CPU Motorola 68000 at 8 MHz (+sub controlling filter circuits MC6809) manages 16 voices polyphony at 12 bits resolution. DAC is a Burr BROWN PCM54.
SAMPLING The custom custom IC YM-2409 allow different recording modes, but features a resampling process allows to convert frequency from 3 Hz to 50 kHz.
12 bits sampling
Mono available sampling rates are:
- 16 / 25 / 33 / 50 kHz
Stereo sampling:
33 kHz
Cut point, trim cut, loop (modes: forward, single point), crossfade, reverse play, fade out / in, timestretch and gain set.
Sample import systems import/export as standard AIFF PCM or original OS format, in addition some AWM2 synthesizers including Yamaha Sy-99 o Sy-85 directly import Tx16w samples by disk media.
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waves are grouped into patch
voices are layered into performances
- tranpose (semitones)
- volume setting
- keyboard zone
- Midi channel assign
- voice priority (3 levels)
- analog out assign
Special front input can trigger a sample from external audio source or drum machine signal with variable threshold.
a fine selection of 17 filter models at 2/4 poles with resonance PEAK including:
- lowpass
- highpass
- bandpass
- notch
- 3 user free slots
LFO up to 2 modulators for each group with 5 bipolar shapes (noise, saw, sine, square and triangle) with retrig and tempo-sync options. Each LFO modulates 14 destinations: pitch, volume, cutoff, resonance, panning, EG attack, AEG time, glide time, LFO1/2 depth, LFO1/2 rate and LFO1/2 EG.
SEE "matrix modulation" below for modulation routing details:
ENVELOPE each group features 2 EGs:
- AEG1 amplitude is hardwired(4-segments+2 levels)
- AEG2 matrix routing (3 segments + 3 times)
- velocity
- modulation wheel
- pitchbender
- CC# MIDIs
- aftertouch
- external trigger
- LFO 1 / LFO 2
- EG 1 / EG 2
- transpose
- Volume
- cutoff
- panning
- attack ADSR
- time glide
- LFO 1 / LFO 2 depth
- LFO 1 / LFO 2 frequency
- EG 1 / EG 2
Factory 1,5Mb sampling RAM a good amount to start and doing some pretty standard sounds.
Sampling RAM can be expanded up to 6 Mb using special custom 1,5 MB memory modules (model YAMAHA EMM15) fitted into the dedicated slot. These are quite hard to find, but some third parts made some compatible modules (not tested).
Internal data can be saved in 3 ways:
- standard Midi SDS dump
- RS422 transfer range from 19200 to 153600 bauds.
- 720 DD disk PC DOS compatible file-system(model Western Digital WD-1772 same found on ATARI ST)
Internal disk can be replaced by more modern USB emulator - see pic on the left. That works like a charm.
- poor edit interface
- obsolete storage, memory
- cheap now
- Matrix
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