A list of products made by Yamaha Corporation. Some of the items listed here are no longer in production. For example, the YAS-21 student-grade alto saxophone of the 1970s was superseded by the YAS-23 and YAS-25 saxophones during the 1990s. When production of the YAS-23 and YAS-25 ended they were superseded by the YAS-275, which is currently in production as of 2010.

Electone

Electone

Electone is the trademark used for electronic organs produced by Yamaha.-History:After Hammond pioneered the electronic organ in the 1930s, other manufacturers began to market their own versions of the instrument...

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Electronic organ

An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds....

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The most models and years of introductions are based on official chronicle. Also, the photograph of major models on each era is available on the 50th anniversary site.

Sound chip

Sound chip

A sound chip is an integrated circuit designed to produce sound . It might be doing this through digital, analog or mixed-mode electronics...

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• SCSP
• Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor
  Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor
  thumb|315-6232 Sound processor on Dreamcast.thumb|315-6119 Sound processor on NAOMI.Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor is a processor for Dreamcast and Naomi in 1998.- Specifications :* 45 MHz ARM7 core...
  
  

PSG/SSG

• YM2149 / YMZ294 / YMZ284 / YMZ285 (SSG)

      — PSG

  Programmable sound generator

  A Programmable Sound Generator is a sound chip that generates sound waves by synthesizing multiple basic waveforms, and often some kind of noise generator, and combining and mixing these waveforms into a complex waveform, then shaping the amplitude of the resulting waveform using...

  
   variants, adopted by MSX2 (1985) standard.

OPL

• YM3526 (OPL)
• YM2413 (OPLL) — MSX-Music chip, adopted by MSX2+ (1988) & MSX TurboR (1990) standards.
• Y8950 — MSX-Audio chip, used on some MSX (1983) modules.
• YM3812 (OPL2) — used on 1st & 2nd generation Sound Blaster cards for FM sound.
• YMF262 (OPL3) — used on 3rd & 4th generation Sound Blaster
  Sound Blaster
  The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was the de facto standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, until the widespread transition to Microsoft Windows 95, which standardized the programming interface at application level , and the evolution in PC design led to onboard...
  
   cards for FM sound.
• YMF278 (OPL4)

OPN

• YM2203 (OPN)
• YM2608 (OPNA)
• YM2610 (OPNB)
• YM2612 (OPN2) — Used in the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis game console and Fujitsu's FM Towns computer series.
• YM3438 (OPN2C)
• YMF288 (OPN3)

OPS

• YM21280 (OPS)
• YM21290 (EGS)

Misc

• YM2151 (OPM) — used on SFG-01 FM Sound Synthesizer Unit for CX5M
  Yamaha CX5-M
  The CX5-M is a MSX-system compatible computer with a built-in eight-voice FM synthesizer module having built-in MIDI capabilities, stereo phono outputs and an input for a purpose-built four-octave keyboard. It was produced in the mid-1980s.-Specification:...
  
  
• YM2164 (OPP) — used on DX21 / DX27 / DX100 / SFG-05 / FB-01, and Korg DS-8
  Korg DS-8
  The Korg DS-8 is an expandable FM synthesizer released by KORG in 1986 which used the Yamaha FB-01 FM synthesis engine with 4 sine wave oscillators. 61 Keys in length with both initial and switchable aftertouch capabilities it stores up to 100 programs and 10 combinations in its internal memory...
  
   / Korg 707
• YM3806 (OPQ)
• YM3420 (OPU)
• YM271   (OPX)
• YM2414
  Yamaha YM2414
  thumb|right|Yamaha YM2414The YM2414, aka OPZ, is an eight-channel sound chip developed by Yamaha. It was designed for use in high-end MIDI synthesizers, specifically in Yamaha's DX11, YS200, TX81Z, the Korg Z3 guitar synthesizer, and as the 16-channel OPZII in the Yamaha V50.The YM2414 has the...
  
   (OPZ) — used on DX11
  Yamaha DX11
  The Yamaha DX11 was one of the latest models of the DX series that Yamaha produced in the 1980s. This synth has been reported to be the most upgraded 4-OP synth of the DX series ....
  
   / TX81Z, Korg Z3 guitar synthesizer; also 16ch version (OPZII) was used on V50
  Yamaha V50
  The Yamaha V50 is a digital music workstation introduced in 1989. It combines a sequencer, rhythm machine, a FM synthesis - based sound module and a MIDI keyboard.-The sequencer:...
  
  
• YMU786 (MA-7) — a mobile phone sound chip with 3D audio effect
  3D audio effect
  3D audio effects are a group of sound effects that attempt to widen the stereo image produced by two loudspeakers or stereo headphones, or to create the illusion of sound sources placed anywhere in 3 dimensional space, including behind, above or below the listener.There are several types of 3D...
  
  , etc.
• YMF7xx series (DS-1) — PC audio chip
  • YMF70x~YMF719 — for ISA bus card
  • YMF720~...     — for PCI bus card
  • YMF7x0 series — for on-board or embedded solutions
  • YMF7x4 series — for PCI bus standalone adapter

    it supported Yamaha XG level 1, some of MU50

    Yamaha MU-series

    The Yamaha MU-series is a line of sound modules built by Yamaha. All sound modules except MU5 support Yamaha XG. The sound modules were commonly used when computers had slower processors. The computer could send MIDI commands to the sound module, acting as an external sound generation device...

    
     additions, DB50XG compatibilities, Roland GS

    Roland GS

    Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard or General Sound, is an extension of General MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and bytes sequences, thus defining...

    
     in TG300B mode, OPL3 FM synthesizer, some emulation of Sound Blaster Pro (stereo 8bit@22 kHz) and MPU-401

    MPU-401

    The MPU-401, where MPU stands for MIDI Processing Unit, was an important but now obsolete interface for connecting MIDI-equipped electronic music hardware to Personal Computers...

    
     (MIDI interface).

    • YMF724 — 2ch output
    • YMF744 — 4ch output
    • YMF754 — 5.1/6ch output

DAC

• YM3012
  Yamaha YM3012
  The YM3012, aka DAC-MS, is a floating point digital-to-analog converter chip developed by Yamaha. It generates stereo analog output from dual serial input, the sound data containing a 10-bit mantissa and 3-bit exponent. It was notably used alongside the YM2151.- References :*...
  
   (DAC-MS) — used with YM2151 (OPM), etc.
• YM3014 (DAC-SS) — used with YM2203 (OPN), YM3812 (OPL2), etc.
• YM3016
  Yamaha YM3016
  thumb|YM3016The YM3016, aka DAC-GS, is a floating point digital-to-analog converter chip developed by Yamaha. It generates stereo analog output from either a two-channel serial or a 16-bit binary/two's complement input, the sound data containing a 10-bit mantissa and 7-bit exponent...
  
   (DAC-GD) — used with YM2608 (OPNA), YM2610 (OPNB), etc.
• YAC513 (DAC)

Video chips

• V9938
  Yamaha V9938
  The Yamaha V9938 is a Video Display Controller used in the Geneve 9640 enhanced TI-99/4A clone, as well as MSX 80s home computers ....
  
   — MSX-Video chip, adopted by MSX2 (1985) standard.
• V9958
  Yamaha V9958
  The Yamaha V9958 is a Video Display Controller used in MSX 80s home computers. More specifically, the "TIM" upgrade to the TI-99/4A, MSX 2+ and MSX turbo R....
  
   — MSX-Video chip, adopted by MSX2+ & MSX TurboR standards.
• V9990

MSX peripheral chips

MSX-Engine

• S1985
  MSX-Engine
  An MSX-ENGINE chip is a specially developed integrated circuit for home computers that are built according to the MSX specifications.Generally, such a chip combines the functions of many separate, older/simpler chips into one...
  
   — MSX-SYSTEM II
  MSX-Engine
  An MSX-ENGINE chip is a specially developed integrated circuit for home computers that are built according to the MSX specifications.Generally, such a chip combines the functions of many separate, older/simpler chips into one...
  
   chip, for MSX2 System LSI.
• S3527
  MSX-Engine
  An MSX-ENGINE chip is a specially developed integrated circuit for home computers that are built according to the MSX specifications.Generally, such a chip combines the functions of many separate, older/simpler chips into one...
  
   — MSX-SYSTEM
  MSX-Engine
  An MSX-ENGINE chip is a specially developed integrated circuit for home computers that are built according to the MSX specifications.Generally, such a chip combines the functions of many separate, older/simpler chips into one...
  
   chip, for MSX System LSI.