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  YM2612
YM2612 is a 6 channel FM synthesis (Frequency Modulation) sound synthesizer IC produced by Yamaha.
It belongs to a family of Yamaha FM synthesizer chips, and can be considered an ancestor to the OPL2 (YM3812) and OPL3 (YMF262) FM ICs that were used in the popular AdLib and Creative Labs SoundBlaster PC soundcards.
The YM2612 does not provide any timing or buffering of the PCM samples, so all frequency control and buffering must be done in software by the host processor.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/y/ym/ym2612.html   (221 words)

  
 Yamaha YM2612 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
YM2612, aka OPN2, is a six-channel sound synthesizer IC, or sound chip, produced by Yamaha.
It belongs to a family of sound synthesizer chips produced by Yamaha that uses 'FM', or frequency modulation synthesis to generate sounds, and is somewhat similar to the YM3812 (OPL2) and YMF262 (OPL3) FM ICs that were used in the popular AdLib and Creative Labs Sound Blaster soundcards for the PC.
The synth patches used by the YM2612 in Mega Drive/Genesis games are compatible with certain members of the Yamaha DX/TX synthesizers, such as the Yamaha DX100.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamaha_YM2612   (291 words)

  
 Yamaha Ns P220
Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989 and Steinberg in 2004.
Torakusu Yamaha (山葉寅楠; Yamaha Torakusu, April 20, 1851 – August 8, 1916) was the founder of the Yamaha Corporation.
Yamaha was a watchmaker to who built his first reed organ in 1887.
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 Gym
The name stands for Genesis '''YM'''2612, since the file contains the data sent to the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip in the console.
The data is logged to a file through the use of emulator s running a ROM image.
The new file format VGM also supports Yamaha YM2612 logging and is already supported by many popular emulators.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/gym   (367 words)

  
 Yamaha - Sonic Retro
The Yamaha Corporation (Japanese: ヤマハ株式会社; Romaji: Yamaha Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas.
It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 日本楽器製造株式会社; Romaji: Nippon Gakki Seizou Kabushikigaisha) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture.
Yamaha produced the YM2612 sound chip for the Sega Megadrive.
info.sonicretro.org /Yamaha   (74 words)

  
 Sound generators of the 1980s home computers
Yamaha developed a clone of the PSG, known as the YM2149 Software-Controlled Sound Generator, for their range of MSX computers and it also found applications in the Atari STs.
The Yamaha YM3526 OPL (FM-Operator Type L) was the bottom of the range in Yamaha's original FM synthesis chip line-up.
The Yamaha YM2164 OPP was used in the Yamaha SFG-05 FM Sound Synthesizer Unit II and the Korg 707 keyboard synthesizer.
www.srcf.ucam.org /~rga24/computer/music   (2001 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社;) is a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments (of which is it the world's manufacturer) and electronic products.
Yamaha bought a significant share of Korg in 1989–1993, acquired Sequential Circuits in 1988 and Steinberg in 2004.
Yamaha developed their own set of improvements to the General MIDI standard and called it XG.
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Yamaha AN1x - Yamaha AN1x, produced by Yamaha Corporation in 1997, is an analog physical modeling synthesizer, digitally modeling analog sound.
Yamaha YM2612 - YM2612, aka OPN2, is a six-channel sound synthesizer IC, or sound chip, produced by Yamaha.
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The YM2612 has two address lines, so it is available at 4000-4003h and is mirrored repeatedly up to 5FFFh.
For as long as the Z80 is reset, the YM2612 cannot be used.
It is actually on the same physical chip as the VDP, and it's output comes directly out of the VDP to be mixed with the YM2612.
cgfm2.emuviews.com /txt/gen-hw.txt   (2832 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Byte 8 - number of voices (+1) in the file; -- FF is for 0 voices -- 00 is for 1 voice -- 01 is for 2 voices -- 02 is for 3 voices, etc. A YMX bank is allowed up to 128 voices.
Below are the YM2612 register equivallents to each byte in a voice.
Remember though that the YM2612 works with decay 1 level and detune values a bit differently.
www.randomsonicnet.org /srz/s2music/ymx.txt   (324 words)

  
 1989 yamaha wave runner specifications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
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 Yamaha (manufacturer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社; TYO: 7951) is a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments (of which is it the world's manufacturer) and electronic products.
Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision computers
Yamaha Y8950, used in MSX-Audio cardridge for MSX, made by Philips
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 Yamaha Blaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
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 The Downfall of Sega, Part 2 » Ad Terras Per Aspera
Main system memory in the Saturn was eight times what it was in the 32x, and could be expanded using external expansion cards (which very few games used).
Compared to the Genesis, the 68k and FH1 pairing is far more powerful than the Genesis’ Z80 and Yamaha YM2612, plus it can do anything the 32x and SegaCD sound hardware can do, including PCM sample playback and many channels of complex music synth and sound effects.
So, ultimately, the Saturn is sorta like if they took the 32x and SegaCD, the 3D hardware from their System32 arcade system, and a more powerful sound setup than anything seen before, and combined it all together to produce a new console.
adterrasperaspera.com /blog/2006/01/03/the-downfall-of-sega-part-2   (1253 words)

  
 ComedyGamer.com Console Specifications
The memory is a bit hazy now, but I do remember being extremely jealous that I didn't have one when I was a kid!
Primary Sound chip: Yamaha YM2612 6 channel FM Secondary Sound chip: 4 channel PSG
Outputs: separate R.F aerial and R.G.B outputs (AUX connector - Megadrive 1 only), stereo headphone jack (original model only) 9 pin EXT port (Early original model only) Expansion port on the bottom right hand side for Mega CD 2 nine pin joypad connectors on the front of the machine.
www.som.soton.ac.uk /staff/njj/comedygamer/specs/megadspecs.html   (87 words)

  
 Games - VGM
On November 20, 2005, VGM 1.50 was officially announced, and a new version of the input plugin released.
The new version of the format now supports PCM optimization for the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip, what makes sound files using the chip a lot smaller - sometimes with over 75% of size reduction.
The first YM2612 VGM archive,, optimized all of its packages soon after.
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 Yamaha Blaster Atv Part
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 Spymac.com :: Forums :: Hangouts :: Arcade :: Sega Genesis Thread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
It had the Yamaha YM2612, which had 6 channels, each with 4 oscillators..
it was also compatible with patches from a Yamaha DX100...
The 6th channel could either be FM, or a DAC channel, to play back digitized sounds..
www.spymac.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=211756   (1629 words)

  
 Funny Characteristics of Sega Genesis Music and Sound
And last, the DAC channel is used for percussion, voices, and/or some actual instrument samples in the music in many games.
The Sega Genesis uses a lowly 6-channel FM music synthesizer by Yamaha, a motorcycle company and a producer of professional audio equipment, for music and most of its sound effects!
The Yamaha FM (Frequency Modulation) music synthesizer [similar to Creative Sound Blaster 16, ADLIB, and other older sound cards, but vastly superior] in the Sega Genesis console is more suitable for MUSIC than SOUND EFFECTS (Thank God Koshiro knew about this!).
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IBM PC - originally introduced with single voice square wave with n-bit frequency divider.
A decade and a half of crappy soundcards would follow, such as the soundblasters with a single, noisy 8/16-bit 64KB stereo waveform and/or bottom-of-the-barrel Yamaha FM chips.
N64 - DSP mixes approx 13 8/16-bit PCM waveforms Sega Genesis (16) - Z80, Yamaha YM2612 and TI psg - 5 channels of 4-Operator FM and one channel 8-bit PCM.
www.gweep.net /~shifty/txt/videogamemusic.txt   (462 words)

  
 Sega Genesis
CPU: Motorola M68000 16 bit processor running at 7.67Mhz
Main sound Chip: Yamaha YM2612 6 channel FM Additional sound chip: 4 channel PSG
Expansion port on the bottom right hand side for Sega CD 2 nine pin controller ports in the front of the machine.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/MegaDrive.html   (352 words)

  
 thedogpound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
It disappeared, with other big mammals in the Holocene extinction event, which began about 13,000 years ago.
GYM is a sound format for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis.The name stands for Genesis YM2612, since the file contains the data sent to the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip in the console.
The data is logged to a file through the use of emulators running a ROM image.The GYM format first appeared on the emulator Genecyst as a simple raw sound data log.
thedogpound.blogdrive.com   (1862 words)

  
 1Emulation.Com > I hate this
We have got the first working Genesis emulator ever written in Java.
Everything is emulated, including Motorola 68000 CPU core, Zilog Z80, Genesis Video Display Processor, Yamaha YM2612 and Texas Instruments SN76496.
Compatibility is good, really, really good, as you can see in the screenshots [See the link].
www.1emulation.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t14468.html   (601 words)

  
 Not quite [OT] - YM2612 - NI Forums
Not quite [OT] - YM2612 - NI Forums
I'm thinking of building an emulation of the Yamaha YM2612 chip.
The chip was used in the Sega Mega Drive (known as the Genesis absolutely everywhere else except the UK).
www.native-instruments.com /forum/showthread.php?t=7136   (201 words)

  
 Welcome to Niobium's Arcade Zone...
YM2612 emulator upgraded to the last version, FM sound is a bit better.
Reclaiming the thron of most compatable Sega-CD emulator in existance, this version also adds something that has been sorely lacking in AGES since the beginning.
Quinntesson has taken the time to completely reverse enginerer the Yamaha YM2612 chip in the genesis rather than use canned source code from MAME (like a lot of other Genesis emulators out there).
www.arcadezone.org /newsarchives/2001/sept-dec-emu.html   (2077 words)

  
 Not quite [OT] - YM2612 [Archive] - NI Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Not quite [OT] - YM2612 [Archive] - NI Forums
View Full Version : Not quite [OT] - YM2612
Never walk 6 miles at 4am in freezing temperatures, you'll regret it for the next week...
www.native-instruments.com /forum_us/archive/index.php/t-7136.html   (199 words)

  
 Sega question - AtariAge Forums
Always wondered what the Genesis 3 used for sound (wasn't that what the original Genesis used the Z80 for?)
The Genesis uses a Yamaha YM2612 and a TI SN76489 for sound.
The Z80 is the sound processor and IIRC, some older games won't work right without it.
www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=64614   (1659 words)

  
 ObsoleteGaming.com Facts-Info-Emulation-Links-Plus Loads More!!
Memory: 156KB total - 64 KB Main RAM, 64KB VRAM, 8KB Sound RAM.
Sound: Yamaha YM2612 6 channel FM, additional 4 channel PSG.
Also Texas Instruments SN76489 PSG (Programmable Sound Generator)
homepage.ntlworld.com /obsoletegaming/nomad.html   (256 words)

  
 Emulators - Main
Sound CPU - Z80a running at 3.58 MHz
Main sound chip - Yamaha YM2612 6 channel FM Additional sound chip - 4 channel PSG
Complete sound support (YM2612, PCM, PGS 76489, DAC) in 16 bits stereo at 11025 / 22050 / 44100 Hz Configurations files support
www.pacs-portal.co.uk /Emulators/emulators_main.htm   (1025 words)

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