Difference between revisions of "Yamaha"
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| [[Sega Hang-On hardware|Yamaha YM2203]] | | [[Sega Hang-On hardware|Yamaha YM2203]] | ||
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| [[SegaPCM|Sega MultiPCM]] (Yamaha YMFA1005) | | [[SegaPCM|Sega MultiPCM]] (Yamaha YMFA1005) | ||
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| [[Saturn Custom Sound Processor]] (SCSP / YMF292) | | [[Saturn Custom Sound Processor]] (SCSP / YMF292) | ||
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| [[Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor]] (AICA) | | [[Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor]] (AICA) | ||
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Revision as of 14:44, 1 October 2020
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| Founded: 1887-08-12 | ||
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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. Sales offerings include motorcycles (Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. 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 acquired Korg in 1989.
Yamaha has produced many of the integrated circuit chips for Sega arcade and console hardware, such as the YM2612 sound chip for the Sega Mega Drive console. Yamaha held the patent for FM synthesis, which was featured in many Yamaha synthesizers and sound chips, while some of their sound chips also featured PCM sampling. In addition, Yamaha also manufactured VDP graphics processors for the Sega Master System and Mega Drive consoles.
Contents
Hardware produced
Consoles
- Copera (1993)
Integrated circuits
Sound chips
| Sound chip | Year | Max channels |
FM synthesis | SSG | PCM sampling | Applications | ||||
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| Operators | Max channels | Max ops/channel | Channels | Max channels | Depth (bit) | Max sample rate (Hz) | ||||
| Yamaha YM2151 | 1983 | 8 | 32 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | Sega System series |
| Yamaha YM2203 | 1984 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | N/A | N/A | Sega Hang-On hardware |
| Yamaha YM2413 | 1986 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | FM Sound Unit (Mark III), Master System (JP), MSX |
| Yamaha YM2612 | 1988 | 6 | 24 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 32,000 | Mega Drive, Sega System 32 |
| Sega MultiPCM (Yamaha YMFA1005) | 1992 | 28 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 28 | 16 | 44,100 | Sega System Multi 32, Sega Model series |
| Saturn Custom Sound Processor (SCSP / YMF292) | 1994 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 32 | 16 | 44,100 | Saturn, ST-V, Sega Model series |
| Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor (AICA) | 1998 | 64 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 64 | 16 | 48,000 | Dreamcast, Sega NAOMI series |
VDP
- YM2602 - VDP in Mark III and Master System
- YM7101 - VDP in Mega Drive
Softography
Pico
- Melody Land (1993)
- Do Re Mi Fa Densetsu (1993)
- Copera no Time Machine (199x)
- Otto Katachitchi (199x)
- Outa no Canvas (199x)
- Copera no Kono Ato Naani (1994)
- Mike to Asobou Tobidase Milky Way (1994)
- Oshare no Kuni no Alice (199x)
- Copera no Chikyuu Daisuki (199x)
- Bouken! Merorin-tou (199x)
Gallery
Logo for XGlite; a Yamaha extension to the General MIDI standard supported by the Sega Dreamcast.
