Yamaha Corporation
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The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include motorcycles (see Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989 and Steinberg in 2004.
Products
- Motorcycles (Yamaha Motor Corporation)
- Pianos
- Workstations
- Digital Pianos
- Yamaha Clavinova CVP Series
- Yamaha Clavinova CLP Series
- Digital Stage Pianos
- Electone electronic organs
- Synthesizers
- Guitars
- Drum kits
- Band and orchestral instruments
- Music sequencers
- Sound chips
- Yamaha YM2149 - used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision and ZX Spectrum computers
- Yamaha Y8950 - used in MSX-Audio cardridge for MSX, made by Philips
- Yamaha YM2413 (a.k.a. OPLL) - used in MSX in MSX Music cardridges like the FM-PAC
- Yamaha YM3526 (a.k.a. OPL)
- Yamaha YM3812 (a.k.a. OPL2) - used in AdLib and early Sound Blaster sound cards
- Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3) - used in Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards
- Yamaha YMF278 (a.k.a. OPL4) - always used together with YMF262, used in Moonsound cardridge for MSX
- Yamaha YMF7xx (Embedded audio chipset in some laptops and low-end soundcards)
- Pro Audio
- Digital Mixers
- Analog Mixers
- Audio Workstations
- Mixing Engines
- Signal and Effect processing
- Speakers (powered and unpowered)/(active and passive)
- Home Electronics
- Yamaha DSP-1 - An early home theater surround sound component produced in 1985
Yamaha developed their own set of improvements to the General MIDI standard and called it XG. Many of their current range of products, from their high-end synths to "toy" keyboards, support the XG standard.
External links
- yamaha.com
- global.yamaha.com (http://www.global.yamaha.com)
- CVP Users Group [1] (http://cvpug.com)
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